Inspire as a DLNA player

[zwaaa]

I've been playing with the DLNA functionality of the Inspire. It is very neat. Shoot a 720P video, and play it using XBMC or a DLNA tv set - with a built in control surface. Show pictures on the big screen with no need to mess with a server. This is simply cool.

However...I have a upnp DLNA media server in my basement with all my family videos saved on it. Is there a way to have the Inspire act as a DLNA media renderer/player allowing you to stream videos stored on a lan server to your phone? Or can you mount samba shares to do the same thing?

I found a project on google code to do this with music, but I could not tell if it supported video. My dlna server is mediatomb and it supports transcoding.

 

[zwaaa]

Answering my own question. The native video player will show all DLNA servers on your lan, but I have yet to try to play a video. How cool is that!!

 

[ZeroRilix]

Answering my own question. The native video player will show all DLNA servers on your lan, but I have yet to try to play a video. How cool is that!!

That's awesome! You should try to play a video and report back so we all know how well it works.

 

[grasstrout]

I can't stream to my ps3 with the built in dlna but I can with twonky

Sent from my Inspire 4G

 

[zwaaa]

Ok, the word is that mediatomb running on ubuntu will successfully stream xvid encoded video to the Inspire. For me this is huge. Great video quality and no audio sync issues. I am assuming that it will do so from XBMC as well given that it streams to xbmc and functions as a control surface flawlessly.

MediaTomb - Free UPnP MediaServer

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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MediaTomb