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miniDLNA : how to get Samsung PC Share Manager features ?

by fboulange Oct 23, 2010 8:29PM PDT

Dears Sausung fans

PC Share Manager is ok but you have to leave your PC on to use it !
To solve this I bought a NAS device : external HDD who can runs from itself. Mine is a DLink DNS-323 running on Linux.
There's a lots of different package you can install on it which kind of act such as

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by fboulange Oct 23, 2010 8:39PM PDT

... such as (sorry I can't get to edit my previous post)

## mediaTomb (you'll have to tweak it to get Samsung TV to recognize MKV)
Good : only conf to modify + free
Bad : does not have chapters / subtitle menus / Bookmark

## twonky suite
Good : transcoding (even if our TV handle most of media format)
Bad : not free

## miniDLNA
Good : free + have chapters / subtitle menus / Bookmark
Bad : have to patch it.

For those who are interrested you can follow this thread : http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/forums/forum/879957/topic/3708596/index/page/1

Personnaly I used this patch version of miniDLNA and it gives me complete satisfaction.