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My N900 works great as a DLNA client, when my Windows PC's are on and they have network shared folders.

However, when I switch off all my Windows PC's and try to access my network shared USB drive (that is attached to my router), the N900 doesn't see it. Is there any way that I can get the N900 to see (or search for) the network shared USB drive?

My router's a Belkin Share+, so maybe it requires some software on every device that you want to view the content on? On the other hand, it's supposed to support DLNA TVs with no problem, and of course you can't go installing apps on TV's (yet).

Has anyone got an idea of how to get this working? I'm getting a DLNA TV tomorrow, so I can give more info on how well it picks up the USB drive.

P.S. Only one of my PCs actually has any Belkin software. The other one finds the drive because I told it to look for one, but didn't install any software.

Just wanted to say that I have just installed a Netgear NAS. Enabled UPnP and ReadyDLNA in the Ready NAS setup, and i can reach all my media files with my N900 and play them directly with media player. It also works with my Xbox 360. I love the N900!

hi guys
could you be so kind and give me an advise what is wrong with me DLNA?

so I have the situation as above and when I try to acces shared folders on pc nothing happen;(

the "asus-pc" link at the bottom of the aplication should point to your windows media player shared music, one of the issues i had was the third party firewall in the windows 7 64bit pc was blocking traffic(not all firewalls are the same, so i cannot comment on how you can check this), i set the firewall to learn mode and it then worked(learn mode basically automatically creates rules in the firewall for any process trying to use the network).

Is rygel still out there? Can't seem to find it anywhere...

Tks

http://www.maemonokian900.com/maemo-...is-but-a-kiss/

Is it for our n900?
if so...how do I install it? I am a little noobie...

For Windows 7, you have to enable media streaming to specific devices that aren't in the Windows Group. Since an N900 is not Windows, the W7 PC doesn't allow sharing by default.If you research how to access media files on Windows 7 from PS3, the steps are the same as the N900. You start by going to:

Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings

Select Home/Work network->Media Streaming->Media Streaming Options

Show Devices->All Networks (Local Networks are Windows-only PCs, I think).

Find the "Unknown Device" with your N900's Wi-Fi mac and change it to "Allowed"

GOOD LUCK!

thanx dude...but it is the other way around...I want to be able to access my files on my n900(videos, music, pics) from my ps3 and pc.
I know that rygel enables that, but I can't find it to install it again...

Hi everyone,

I am also looking for Rygel. Please anyone post it or let us know where to find it and how to install it.

Thanks in advance.
Kooki

I've never used Rygel....

Will PS3MediaServer work?

http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/

It is a java application. Java is now working on the N900. I run desktop java apps on my N900 such as Freemind, yEd, ganntProject. It would'nt surprise me if PS3MediaServer would run.

I think I got java se from here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ja...ads/index.html

I'm using ARMv7 Linux - Headful version. Also, there are other posts about getting full Java with more details than I am providing.

Hi went ahead and tried out PS3MediaStreamer. It works for Pictures at least.

Here it is on the N900 running default settings out of the box.


One problem seems that the configuration screens are larger than the N900's resolution. Other java apps have scrollbar controls, but this one doesn't. Perhaps there is a way to create a configuration on a desktop Linux PC and then copy the config files down to N900. It may also be possible to just modify configs by hand, but not sure. I just wanted to test this software out as a proof of concept.

It should be noted that I didn't attempt to get video streaming to work. Apparently PS3MS uses mencoder, mplayer, and ffmpeg. I have mencoder and mplayer from extras, but no ffmpeg. Transcoding on the N900 may be too taxing on the CPU anyway. I run mine overclocked with power kernel, but I still don't think transcoding would work well (just a hunch).

It may be possible to forego transcoding in the PS3MS settings altogether, but I haven't research that because I couldn't access all the settings due to the scrollbar issue mentioned above.

Perhaps somebody can take this proof of concept work farther along and create a wiki page for solutions? I have come across many posts requesting UPNP server request and never solutions. This may finally be the one. I have never needed this feature in the past, but maybe it will help somebody else out.

Also, I must say that Java on N900 has opened a world of possibilities. To those who say Java sucks, think again. It truly is a powerful platform that works across environments. I do java programming and this makes me smile. I may even try to install Tomcat server on the N900 just for the hell of it now that I think about it....


CHEERS!

Here are the screens from the PS3:

PS3 can see N900 over UPNP


Browsing Photos


Here's my cat!


PS3MediaServer settings. Not sure how to use them as I've never used the software before today.


Web streaming (listing only


XBMC on Windows 7


Update
I was able to stream video after installing ffmpeg from extras-dev. It didn't show in the UI, but apt-get install ffmpeg worked.