Prerequisites

• Headless Raspberry Pi setup
• NFS Client on Raspberry Pi

Goal

There are some animes on my NAS for my kids. They mainly watch them on TV thanks to the freebox that acts as a DLNA client talking to the Media Server intalled on the NAS. But my NAS is a but overloaded, so I decided to replace its Media Server with a light DLNA server on a raspberry pi.

Install

$ sudo apt-get install minidlna

Configure

$ sudo emacs /etc/minidlna.conf

Set those lines:

  media_dir=V,/mnt/video/dessins_animes
  friendly_name=Dessins animes
  root_container=B
  inotify=yes

Reload database

It seems that inotify does not work with NFS shares, so when I add new animes I have to run:

$ sudo minidlna -R

Restart daemon

$ sudo /etc/init.d/minidlna restart
$ sudo /etc/init.d/minidlna force-reload

Note that minidlna reindex all files at each restart, so you have to wait a bit before trying to access the videos from the freebox.

External References

• http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/minidlna