2009-02-24, 16:40
I just found this and wanted to share it with you all, i was looking for something like Orb (windows app) to run on my media server (which is not my XBMC machine) and i came across mediatomb (http://mediatomb.cc/) which is a very simple uPnP server that runs on linux. They have their install how-to's and svn's and all of this stuff, but i found it in the ubuntu repo, so I just did:
and that's it, all you have to do is point your web browser to:
http://localhost:49152/
and from there you can add all the folders you want to it (audio / video)
to test it, i went to my xbmc machine and added a uPnP source (in either audio or video menus) and it just worked with no problem at all.
i still want to test it from another location outside my local network and see how it works. also i have not touched the issue of securing the content or the mediatomb website so no one from outside can reach it (but for right now im having my router deal with all of this, since im not connecting from outside my local network)
Code:
sudo apt-get install mediatombhttp://localhost:49152/
and from there you can add all the folders you want to it (audio / video)
to test it, i went to my xbmc machine and added a uPnP source (in either audio or video menus) and it just worked with no problem at all.
i still want to test it from another location outside my local network and see how it works. also i have not touched the issue of securing the content or the mediatomb website so no one from outside can reach it (but for right now im having my router deal with all of this, since im not connecting from outside my local network)
