Dnla

I recently bought a Toshiba 46UX600U, which is DNLA compliant. I have a home network, with an iMac (running snow leopard), a Win 7 PC, and I have an iPhone.

So Im trying to figure this out – the TV is a DMR, but can the Mac be setup as a DMS? How? And can my iPhone serve as a DMC? How do I do that?

Thanks

You should probably RFUA if you want YQTBA as not everyone KWTTA.

i assume that anyone who can help me out knows what the abbreviations mean, but here are some definitions:

DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) is a standard used by manufacturers of consumer electronics to allow entertainment devices within the home to share their content with each other across a home network.

The DLNA specification categorizes devices into four categories:

Digital media servers (DMS)
Digital media players (DMP)
Digital media controllers (DMC)
Digital media renderers (DMR)

smegolas said:

i assume that anyone who can help me out knows what the abbreviations mean

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Possible true.

What device is connected directly to your TV, or are you thinking of streaming all content? I don't know what format your content is in or if it has any DRM, those factors could change things.

I assume you're familiar with Boxee and XMBC but have discounted them (because you're not intending to connect a computer directly to your TV)?

I know MediaTomb can transcode from Mac to a DNLA device on the fly (it's th eonly one I know of that's free) - there may be more options for Windows but I am not familiar with them, but your Windows machine might have trouble using your Mac as a server based disk.

a few months ago I tried to evaluate available DNLA servers running on Mac, and although there were a few available, the final conclusion was a bitter one: the idea behind DNLA is a generous one but implementation are disappointingly plagued by incompatibilities.

since it seems there is no universal solution, I advise you to try all those you can find and see which one behaves better with your TV.

regards,

Liviu

do you have any suggestions for servers I might try out...to get me started?