From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qv7mB-0005Qy-2I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:09:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B33D121C3AA; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:09:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9574021C193 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxd23 with SMTP id 23so3434451fxd.40 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:07:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YVmULrZOF2AvznzGGSYM7lEfwWju+2YIvvjGpqrnTDE=; b=Yrkw7A+hElSzMi3FERqmkYrEnCOCEkVpxH2fJ0vEayJWEQrG4IbiZxYoDYrkafsnvz LthrDwJNzpIBCrBggLVH6ypdfCWA8FMUWcXRz7K6XDNLcIXcN2sXVaB0+HVCzL48u3cY xBV0hnX876/vybi8Rc2l1Q2D0YLoLLCM+EnG4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.55.219 with SMTP id v27mr2122781fag.2.1313932038754; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.105.145 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:07:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:07:18 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ecc46aaa4ef148fabdc6a3efbd3ded73 On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 20 August 2011, at 10:40, czernitko wrote: > > =E2=80=A6 > > I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It= is > connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local > computers using some Data Center feature. From what I've heard, it is > something little bit different than common NFS/Samba sharing. It should b= e > natively supported by Win7 and there may be some applications for WinXP. > Unfortunately no applications were shipped on CD with the telly. I wonder > whether there is some way to connect my home Gentoo server to the telly? = Is > there any linux application/specific Samba configuration/...? Have anyone > tried anything similar? > > I've just checked the telly's specifications page [1] and, as per Mick's > reply, it does appear to be DNLA you're thinking of. > DNLA is rubbish - it's a "standard" so wide that it's no use as a standar= d > any more. Manufacturers can choose such small subsets of features to > implement, and have such freedom in *how* they implement features, that n= o > two devices need ever work together - they can still all call themselves > "DNLA compliant". > So don't rely on DNLA - there are sure to be plenty of good video formats > unsupported by your TV - but you might also check out MediaTomb, an > alternative DNLA server. > Stroller. > > [1] http://panasonic.net/avc/viera/eu2011/product/e_lcd.html I'll second the MediaTomb recommendation. It's got a significant learning curve to get set up, but they've got a large community wiki with examples and advice, and their IRC channel is helpful if you run into bugs. (Amusing side note...MediaTomb is what got me into Gentoo way back when...I wanted to use a distro a bit better set up as a development environment, as I was tracking down crasher bugs in media codecs that were killing my mt server. As it happened, libavcodec was crashing when it encountered a corrupted bitstream) --=20 :wq