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DLNA

2024-09-23 teabag.ninja

For a little while now my Pi4 has had issues with the stupid mini-hdmi ports. It has to sit in just the right place to work. To the point where I am not patient enough to get it working. But I wanted to watch stuff I had saved.

Then I remembered DLNA is a thing. And so my internet search began. I spent at least 45 seconds sarching before deciding on miniDLNA (ReadyMedia now, supposedly, but the deb repository package is called minidlna still so meh).

And it just bloody works. Edit the config file by adding your directories to share, and you're done. Oh actually, I lie: I also had to specify the network interface before it would show up on my tv, which I saw mentioned in a few places. On my Panasonic TV with Firefox OS, it even plays H.265 stuff just fine. It actually surprised me. It just... works and is rock solid.

So of course once I had it all working perfectly, I decided to try something else. Jellyfin. I installe the DLNA plugin and... it refuses to show up on my TV except for very briefly every time I shut down Jellyfin it will briefly show up then disappear. Amazing.

I see this in the logs:

DLNA Session created for "Lounge-TV" - "Panasonic VIErA"

yeah, not helpful when it still does not show up on my TV.

more searching on the line, and I find this.

Apparently this is a known issue

SOLVED

Dashboard -> Advanced -> Networking -> Bind to local network address -> Put in the IP of your server

It's in the Issues section of the DLNA server page:

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-plu.../issues/48

oh look, now that is filled out, it works. Why is there not a note in the DLNA plugin to go fill this out.

Anyway; thank you alan, whoever you are <3

The Teabag Ninja