On 20 August 2011, at 10:40, czernitko wrote: > … > I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It is > connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local > computers using some Data Center feature. From what I've heard, it is > something little bit different than common NFS/Samba sharing. It should be > natively supported by Win7 and there may be some applications for WinXP. > Unfortunately no applications were shipped on CD with the telly. I wonder > whether there is some way to connect my home Gentoo server to the telly? Is > there any linux application/specific Samba configuration/...? Have anyone > tried anything similar?
I've just checked the telly's specifications page [1] and, as per Mick's reply, it does appear to be DNLA you're thinking of. DNLA is rubbish - it's a "standard" so wide that it's no use as a standard any more. Manufacturers can choose such small subsets of features to implement, and have such freedom in *how* they implement features, that no two devices need ever work together - they can still all call themselves "DNLA compliant". So don't rely on DNLA - there are sure to be plenty of good video formats unsupported by your TV - but you might also check out MediaTomb, an alternative DNLA server. Stroller. [1] http://panasonic.net/avc/viera/eu2011/product/e_lcd.html
