I tried all freeware softwares on Windows with my new Sony Bravia 40W5800 and it works perfectly with Wild Media Server and Nero Media Home (trial version).
Fuppes is seen by the client TV but generates an error.
I'm trying now with Linux OS. If I'll be able to see something I'll post here ;-)

I've been using the PlayOn media server with my new Bravia W 5150, and it works very well. The media sharing is still beta, but it has been working seamlessly for me. PlayOn also has a variety of plugins available. www.playon.com

Hi there, i recently got a philips PFL9664 which has DLNA on it but i can't get it connected with my desktop. Can anyone here guide me through this? I have both the PC and the TV wired with CAT5 .
I would appreciate some help. Thanks

My TV doesn't support external subtitles...
Does anyone know of a media server with transcoding and subtitles "burn in" capability?

PlayOn, voted "100 Best" by consumer reports (Dec 2009) is not represented here. Retail $39.99 but promotional discounts exist when you use gamefly and random price cuts come out all the time. Comes with Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, CBS, Amazon VOD, and allows plugins to enhance the capabilities [Video Podcasts, Local Media (Music, Pictures and Video), and others...] PlayOn is the only media server I know that will work on the wii. You are missing the best of all of them on your list.

My goal was to stream to my PS3's. PS3 does not play nice with many software apps even after many manual configurations. Additionally, if I did get it working with software, it was jittery in HD. I have a 1gb connection in my house so bandwidth was not an issue. Fast Forward and Rewind of streaming video was also sketchy.

I installed NERO MediaHome. No more issues. Streams HD quality with no jitters. Fast Forward, Rewind and Scene selection has no issues.

Just my 2 cents and weeks of trial and error.:)

self-made

Hi my windows media player stopped connecting with my ps3. All the other computers on my network still work. So it must not be the ps3. I have downloaded crappier media servers online, and they work of the troubled pc. So it must be my media player? please help?

Rhapsody's client software that includes uPnP support only runs on Windows. They do support Mac and Linux for playing music on the computer through a browser plugin (Safari or Firefox), but that plugin does not include uPnP.

Hello,

Since the new release of Mezzmo 2.1, it's price is now $24.95 US. If possible, can you please adjust the table to reflect that?

Thank you!

ps3 MS A+++++++

Hi,

Great resource Thought I point out that TwonkyMedia is not available for Mac OSX.

Thanks,

Im having problems trying to stream video from my samsung i8910 mobile, which is DLNA certified to my LG Bd390 blu ray player. Despite LG claims that it support .mp4 it simply doesnt work with my phone and just the blu ray player... If I install the provided install disk for Nero media4 the blu ray player can play the mp4 files that ive had to copy manually to the laptop, however the blu ray player plays the video files without sound, even though sound is present on the original file.

Both devices are DLNA certified to version 1.5 which I think really makes a mokary of this standard.
My plan was to stream the HD video taken with this phone and stream it my blu ray player so I could watch it on my TV without having to burn DVD's and loose quality. However there does not seam any option out there that works. People have suggested that it is possible to stream from my phone to Xbox 360 but I cannot see how to get this working, I can the xbox to see my laptop but not my mobile.

Im stuck to know what to try next, if theres anybody technical on here with any knowledge in this are I would appreciate some help. Neither LG nor samsung seem to know anything about supporting the features in there products, and the poor customer as usual is left with products that dont work correctly.. grrr!!

Note that PS3 is also Java - I just tried it on OSX snow leopard

Great list of servers, does anyone know some good clients/players on the market?

greg.

Serviio is a free DLNA media server for Windows, Linus and OSX. Get it at www.serviio.org.

Hello !

Wild Media Server (UPnP, DLNA, HTTP) - http://www.wildmediaserver.com.

Best regards,
Evgeny Lachinov

yes you can add a nas drive to it without it connected to a computer. but you have to have it networked to it as a drive and then setup sharing with it and add it to your folder under your media server.

All the configurations I have seen so far appear to be PC based, ie your PC/Laptop requires to be powered on with suitable DLNA media server software loaded.

Does anyone know of any solutions whereby a NAS box on a wireless router (BtHomeHub) can be accessed by DLNA devices without the PC being connected?

Thanks
Derrick

I bought a Panasonic Vierra TV with DNLA support.
The TV comes with a Twonkymedia disk and license key, which I installed on my home PC.
The TV is cat-5 connected to my home router, so it's wireline ethernet all the way.

I bought it because I want ONE remote control for all my access, and I want my PC to be in a different room to my main home TV.

This TV supports MPEG2 and DIVX format files. (DivX files tend to end in '.AVI' extension, which I understand is a package rathe rthan an indication of the codec.

Playback quality of MPEG2 files was poor, possibly because the bitrate was simply too high (homne movies).

DIVX playback iis very good. BUT that TV doen't support DIVX playback of 1080p format files, i.e no HD across this input. Still, it suits me fine.

I am now looking for a 17" DNLA TV for my bedroom. Next, I would like my home PC to take a freesat input and serve out the freesat channels as DNLA-selectable channels.

Is the Sony 52xbr9 classified as a DLNA media server, capable of receiving content directly from a DLNA NAS storage device?

Hey Robert

You did a very good job posting the Comparison Chart of DLNA software.
It really helped.

Keep it up!

Greetings,
Albert Escuain

add please free soft:
http://www.homemediaserver.ru

Hi,

I've got a lot of media in split volume rar files. Does anyone know of a DNLA server for windows that will show rar files as folders and allow the content to be played without unrarring? (like xbmc does)?

Thanks

Hi,
I have recently purchased Sony KDL52Z5100 TV which is DLNA compliant. I am trying to stream videos from my desktop or Laptop without much success. I use a Desktop with Vista OS and a laptop with Media Centre Xp. All my movies are in my desktop including pictures and music. All the movies are in MPEG4 format(.avi or .mk4). I have configured both the PCs as media servers in Windows media player. I can see both the PCs on the TV as media servers. I am able to stream music and pictures from the PCs on to the TV. However I am not able to stream any movie or video. After reading in the forum here, I down loaded Tversity and set it up as the media server on my desktop. The setting up was really very easy. But the sony TV does not recognise the TVersity. I called Sony to help me out on this. Sony mentioned they can only support MPEG2 coded videos and cannot guarantee others. I tried downloading a sample MPEG2 file from net but even that did not work. If anyone in the forum has tried this, please help me or suggest alternative solution to stream MPEG4 videos on to TV.

Thank you
Anand