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--- nas-media [2024/10/12 23:26] – hogwild
+++ nas-media [2025/09/15 15:13] (current) – [Media/DLNA Server] hogwild
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-===== Media / DLNA Server =====
+====== Media / DLNA Server ======
-Here you can enable minidlna, the internal media server that allows you to share media content. For example, you can share media files from USB storage connected to the router towards DLNA clients.
+Here you can enable minidlna, an internal media server that lets you share media content. For example, you can share media files from USB storage connected to the router towards DLNA clients.
-==== Status ====
-{{::usb_and_nas-media_server-status-2024.1.png?499}}
+===== Status =====
+{{::usb_and_nas-media_server-status-2024.1.png?463}}
  \\
-**Start Now/Stop Now:** Click on this starts or stops the minidlna server, whatever is the opposite of its current state.
+**Start Now/Stop Now:** clicking this starts/stops the minidlna server, whichever is the opposite of its current state.
-\\
+ \\
-**Open status page in new tab:** In a new browser tab, displays media file sharing status.
+**Open status page in new tab:** in a new browser tab, this displays media file sharing status.
-{{:pasted:20220118-194721.png}}\\  \\
-**Enable:**  Enable/Disable the DLNA service.
+===== Media/DLNA Server =====
+ \\
+Enable on Start: enables/disables the DLNA service at boot time.
+ \\
+{{::usb_and_nas-media_server-listen_on.png?486}}
+ \\
- \\ \\ **Listen on:  **Define the bridge on which to advertise the service.
+**LAN0 - LAN3: **bridges checked here will have the minidlna service advertised on them.
- \\ \\ **Port:  **Enter a static port where the service is reachable. Minidlna will publish the port in its active network advertisements.\\   \\
+ \\ \\ **Port: **the port where the service is reachable. Minidlna publishes this in active network advertisements.\\   \\
- \\  \\ {{:pasted:20220118-195002.png}}\\  \\
+ \\ {{::usb_and_nas-media_server-database_location_to_autoscan_media-2024.1.png?400}} \\  \\
-**Database Location: **Defines where the database of the local media is stored. This is built automatically after a scan.
+**Database Location: **specifies where, on local media, to store the database. This is built automatically after a scan.
- \\ \\ **Rescan on the next run: **Media are scanned periodically, but you can force a scan by selecting this option and save.\\  \\
+ \\ \\ **Rescan on the next run: **media are scanned periodically, but you can force a scan by selecting this option/save.\\  \\
  \\
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 {{:pasted:20220118-195214.png}}\\  \\
-**TiVo Support: ** Adhere to the TiVo standards in case you use a TiVo client.
+**TiVo Support: ** adhere to the TiVo standards for use with a TiVo client.
- \\ \\ **Strictly adhere to DLNA standards:** Enabling this may increase compatibility with old client devices that have issues.\\   \\
+ \\ \\ **Strictly adhere to DLNA standards:** this may increase compatibility with old client devices that have issues.\\   \\
-**Media Directories: **Define where the actual media is. To //exclude// a subdirectory from scans, place an empty file with name: \\ ''.minidlnaignore'' in the filesystem.
+**Media Directories: **defines where the actual media is. To //exclude// a subdirectory from scans, place an empty file with name: \\ ".minidlnaignore" in the filesystem.
  \\
@@ Line 43: / Line 53: @@
 For example:
-\\ ''cd /mnt/usb/media/private''\\ ''touch .minidlnaignore''
+\\ "cd /mnt/usb/media/private"\\ "touch .minidlnaignore"
  \\

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