A free UPnP A/V Media Server for Linux

http://ushare.geexbox.org/

Installation

From the root prompt, type:

This will install ushare and a dependent package called libupnp.

Configuration:

To complete the installation, you must edit /opt/etc/ushare.conf to add the location(s) of your media files, and then run

Also, you can add media directories and manage settings via the web interface (be sure to set the port number in the /opt/etc/ushare.conf configuration file):

Notes

If you are using it for an xbox 360, the default ipkg currently up (as of Feb 17 2008) has a few bugs:

• the script doesn't pass on the XBOX mode to the executable (it should either pass on "-x" or use the "-f" flag so ushare actually reads a conf file!)
• the stop command won't work because ushare isn't creating a PID file, so the bash script should be modified so it does!

FYI, once I got the xbox profile going, I had to go to the xbox's video source page, selected it twice (first time it failed), and then same for a video (had to do it twice), but once it was up, it worked great (avi file).

turbo: Is multicast enabled by default?

jerry: The init script doesn't seem to launch ushare with the conf file options. If you launch ushare manually with the -f option pointing to ushare.conf it works fine. Also the ushare.conf parameter ENABLE_XBOX=yes should be USHARE_ENABLE_XBOX=yes

jerry: I got this working by editing /opt/etc/init.d/S99ushare and changing USHARE_OPTIONS="-f $CONFIGFILE" to USHARE_OPTIONS="-f $CONFFILE"