I've tried dnla-based stuff with my xbox360 for tv, but found it was 
more hassle than it was worth as m$ doesn't support decent codecs for 
playback anyways.  Can your tv actually dnla high-res media?  For me if 
not, it's kind of a why-bother.

With the 360 being useless for high-def playback, I built an ubuntu 
"media pc" with an hdmi nvidia card, xbmc, and never looked back.  Until 
it died at least.

I got a boxee box, and that could do netflix, 1080p mkv playback, 
cifs/nfs, and just about everything in between, and was pretty decent. 
At least until an update a week ago bricked it.  grr.

Sadly I don't think hardware vendors "get it" to make actual playback 
function openly supporting varieties of codecs, but dnla was a start.

What kind of tv is yours?

More interesting is they're hacking the "smart" tv's now, though not 
sure if their hardware would actually support decent playback of 
anything but codecs cut off at the knees to protect media cartels and 
not anger them.  Having root hopefully takes back control of what 
amounts to a lightweight linux box on just about every modern smart tv, 
just add xbmc and some hardware gpu offloading.  I would ass-u-me they 
have some level of hardware decode on them, so let the games begin.

http://hackaday.com/2012/06/20/getting-root-on-a-sony-tv/
http://www.samygo.tv/

Sadly I bought an lcd the year before smart tv's became the rage, so I'm 
stuck with external hardware via hdmi.  Now if i could find one that 
didn't die/suck.

-mb

On 06/22/2012 12:57 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote:
> For that setup i used mediatomb. It is a ver simple program that says it
> can do transcoding but I was unable to do it. I think debian has it in
> the repos, but if not pretty easy to compile. One it is set up and the
> config file has the correct info in regards to databases (it can us
> mysql or sqlit as the back end) the the rest is through a web interface.
>
> Nadim Hoque
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Mark Phillips
> Sent: 6/22/2012 12:24
> To: Phoenix Linux Users
> Subject: Looking for Streaming Media Software Recommendations
>
> I have a underused Debian headless server, a network enabled DLNA TV,
> so.....why not stream some movies to this TV? I am looking for
> recommendations for a streaming media server that will run on a headless
> Debian server.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
>
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