On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > 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
I'll second the MediaTomb recommendation. It's got a significant learning curve to get set up, but they've got a large community wiki with examples and advice, and their IRC channel is helpful if you run into bugs. (Amusing side note...MediaTomb is what got me into Gentoo way back when...I wanted to use a distro a bit better set up as a development environment, as I was tracking down crasher bugs in media codecs that were killing my mt server. As it happened, libavcodec was crashing when it encountered a corrupted bitstream) -- :wq
