| 1 |
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Stroller |
| 2 |
<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
> On 20 August 2011, at 10:40, czernitko wrote: |
| 5 |
> |
| 6 |
> … |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It is |
| 9 |
> connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local |
| 10 |
> computers using some Data Center feature. From what I've heard, it is |
| 11 |
> something little bit different than common NFS/Samba sharing. It should be |
| 12 |
> natively supported by Win7 and there may be some applications for WinXP. |
| 13 |
> Unfortunately no applications were shipped on CD with the telly. I wonder |
| 14 |
> whether there is some way to connect my home Gentoo server to the telly? Is |
| 15 |
> there any linux application/specific Samba configuration/...? Have anyone |
| 16 |
> tried anything similar? |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
> I've just checked the telly's specifications page [1] and, as per Mick's |
| 19 |
> reply, it does appear to be DNLA you're thinking of. |
| 20 |
> DNLA is rubbish - it's a "standard" so wide that it's no use as a standard |
| 21 |
> any more. Manufacturers can choose such small subsets of features to |
| 22 |
> implement, and have such freedom in *how* they implement features, that no |
| 23 |
> two devices need ever work together - they can still all call themselves |
| 24 |
> "DNLA compliant". |
| 25 |
> So don't rely on DNLA - there are sure to be plenty of good video formats |
| 26 |
> unsupported by your TV - but you might also check out MediaTomb, an |
| 27 |
> alternative DNLA server. |
| 28 |
> Stroller. |
| 29 |
> |
| 30 |
> [1] http://panasonic.net/avc/viera/eu2011/product/e_lcd.html |
| 31 |
|
| 32 |
I'll second the MediaTomb recommendation. It's got a significant |
| 33 |
learning curve to get set up, but they've got a large community wiki |
| 34 |
with examples and advice, and their IRC channel is helpful if you run |
| 35 |
into bugs. |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
(Amusing side note...MediaTomb is what got me into Gentoo way back |
| 38 |
when...I wanted to use a distro a bit better set up as a development |
| 39 |
environment, as I was tracking down crasher bugs in media codecs that |
| 40 |
were killing my mt server. As it happened, libavcodec was crashing |
| 41 |
when it encountered a corrupted bitstream) |
| 42 |
|
| 43 |
-- |
| 44 |
:wq |
Archives