minidlna
minidlna is a light weight but very functional DLNA server. In most cases, the defaults do not need modifications. The global configuration file is /etc/minidlna.conf but local users without system root access can run minidlna with their own configuration file.
The following
are user configurable options in /etc/minidlna.conf.
minidlna runs by default as user nobody, so make sure system
permissions are set correctly for read access to media and
write access to cache and log dirs.
friendly_name
The name you want your media server seen as, EG: friendly_name=Home Media Server
port |
Port for HTTP
(descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic etc, defaults
to 8200.
There should be no need to change this.
network_interface
Network interfaces to serve, comma delimited. Maximum is 8 interfaces. Defaults to all.
strict_dlna
Set this to strictly adhere to
DLNA standards.
This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG
images,
which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony
DLNA products.
notify_interval
Notify interval in seconds. The default is 895 seconds.
minissdpdsocket
Specify the path to the
MiniSSDPd socket,
EG: minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock
serial |
Serial number
the daemon will report to clients in its XML description.
Defaults to 12345678
model |
Model number
the daemon will report to clients in its XML description.
Defaults to 1
media_dir
Path to the directory
containing the media files minidlna should share.
Use this option multile times if you have more than one
directory to share.
Example:
media_dir=/opt/multimedia/videos
media_dir=/opt/multimedia/movies
You can also
restrict an entry to a specific media type, you do this by
using the following syntax:
the letter ’A’, ’V’ or
’P’, followed by a comma (’,’)
followed by the path.
The meaning of the first letter is as follows:
’A’ for audio files
’V’ for video files
’P’ for image files
For example, if
you want to include only video files located
in /opt/multimedia/videos directory, and only music
in /opt/multimedia/music, then you would use
media_dir=V,/opt/multimedia/videos
media_dir=A,/opt/multimedia/music
Another example
would be
media_dir=V,/opt/multimedia/videos
media_dir=V,/opt/multimedia/movies
media_dir=A,/opt/multimedia/music
Or, if you did
not care what type it finds, then you could use
media_dir=/opt/multimedia/videos
media_dir=/opt/multimedia/movies
media_dir=/opt/multimedia/music
You can mix it
up, find anything in music, but only Videos, in videos and
movies
media_dir=V,/opt/multimedia/videos
media_dir=V,/opt/multimedia/movies
media_dir=/opt/multimedia/music
presentation_url
Default presentation url is
http address on port 80
EG:
presentation_url=http://www.mediaserver.lan/index.php
db_dir |
Where minidlna stores the data files, including Album cache files, by default this is /var/cache/minidlna |
log_dir
Path to the directory where the log file upnp-av.log should be stored, this defaults to /var/log
log_level
Set this to change the verbosity of the information that is logged each section can use a different level: off, fatal, error, warn, info, or debug
Example
log_level=general,artwork,database,inotify,scanner,metadata,http,ssdp,tivo=warn
inotify
Set to ’yes’ to enable inotify monitoring of the files under media_dir to automatically discover new files. Set to ’no’ to disable inotify.
album_art_names
This should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art and names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/").
Example
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg
/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg
enable_tivo
Set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO, default is no.
tivo_discovery
Set this to ’beacon’ to use the legacy TiVo broadcast discovery method. Defaults to using Bonjour if Avahi support is available.
root_container
Use a different container as
the root of the tree exposed to clients.
The possible values are:
’.’ to use the standard container (this is the
default)
’B’ to use the "Browse Directory"
container;
’M’ to use the "Music" container;
’V’ to use the "Video" container;
’P’ to use the "Pictures" container.
If you specify ’B’ and the client device is
audio only, then
"Music/Folders" will be used as root container and
you wont see Videos.
force_sort_criteria
Always force SortCriteria to
this value, regardless of the SortCriteria passed by the
client.
You may prepend the sort criteria with "!" to
alter the titles of the objects so that they
will be alphanumerically sorted in the order you specify
here, to work around clients that do
their own alphanumeric sorting.
Example
force_sort_criteria=+upnp:class,+upnp:originalTrackNumber,+dc:title
wide_links
Set to ’yes’ to allow symlinks that point outside user-defined media_dirs. By default, wide symlinks are not followed.
enable_subtitles
Set to ’no’ to disable subtitle support on unknown clients. By default, subtitles are enabled for unknown or generic clients.
This manpage corresponds to minidlna version 1.3.0
minidlna
developed by Justin Maggard
https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/
man page written by Noel Butler <[email protected]>
GPL
/etc/minidlna.conf
minidlna(8)