DLNA support for the Samsung LNxxB630 TV
DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) is a standard to allow entertainment devices within the home to share their content with each other across a home network. In other words, stream content from my computer to the TV across the LAN. The cool part about this, is that my TV, the LN40B630, can play HD content native, meaning that the computer’s only function is to stream (not process the content, meaning my low power computer can ‘power’ the HD content). The catch is that you have to use firmware not newer than 001012, the 001013 firmware that my TV came with removes the DLNA feature. (I assume they meant for it to only be available on more expensive models).
In my opinion, the easiest way to get DLNA to work for this TV is to use mediatomb. The reason is that this TV needs the mimetype of avi/mkv’s to be video/mpeg and (so far) I have not found any other DLNA software that is able to modify mimetypes like this. You also need to set a custom http header, as I found here.
Here is my config.xml that I am using to stream to the TV. It is not perfect but the majority of the work is done. Tested with mediatomb-0.11.0 only.
have you tried Tversity (www.tversity.com) or Playon (www.mediamall.com)
Why would I care about tversity? It only works on windows. Also, mediamall is an advertising site?? lame comment, close to marking as spam.
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Hello,
My blog comments are not a support forum, you will have better luck on an actual forum. That being said, your TV will just become a “second monitor” once you connect it to your PC via the monitor out connection. That might be DVI, HDMI, or something else. You might need to pick up a DVI to HDMI cable.
Note: this post is about streaming media from your PC to TV through your local network (ethernet) so you don’t have to worry about the connections but I don’t think you are talking about that.
Anyway, good luck.
You might want to try Rygel at some point of time as well, if you haven’t already.