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Hi All,

Having ordered my N900, I am curious to know how easy it would be to have it receive DLNA streams (photos/music/video) from a device such as a QNAP TS119. Or even if an application exists that does that already?

And also, the ability to stream photos/music/video to DLNA clients (such as the PS3 - the video is the recorded in the correct format too I believe)?

Is this something it can do already or do linux applications exist that do this sort of stuff already? If not how easy would such an application be?

Many thanks, in advance.

PS. As a side question, how would you advise getting into program for Linux, I have good knowledge of VBA and programming etiquette in general, would it be a case of learning the syntax and available functions/procedures/etc? PM me if you feel this is too off topic to be posted here, I'd be very interested. Also, worthy of note, I'd be developing on a Windows PC, if that makes the difference?

DLNA/UPNP access exists on linux... there's ushare as a server and djmount as the client(it mounts the upnp/dlna share as a filesystem you can then browse through)

No clue about what is included with the N900 or available for it.

The built-in media player is a UPnP/DLNA client.
At least for the N8x0 somebody already ported MediaTomb UPnP server. Brisa is another server available for N8x0. Porting gmediaserver or ushare shouldn't be hard, too. Or Rygel, as the UPnP subsystem of Maemo5 is based on gupnp.

Wow, I wasn't expecting there to be so much readily available/in existence. Perhaps I'll be enjoying my N900 even more than I thought!

Thanks for the replies.

Bingo, correct.

The fact the built in player is a DLNA client is a major attraction for me - I'm planning on getting a QNAP TS119 just after my birthday (around the time I'll get the N900...hopefully).

Nokia did an official program for the N8x0 models (mediastreamer). Works perfectly - but intended for music only.

I use it every day with my Qnap TS-409.

If you also want to watch photos and videos over UPnP, then MediaBox does the job on the N8x0 (and soon on the N900 too).

I have NO understanding of what you guys are really talking about except that UPnP/DLNA client will be possible on the N900. THAT is enough info for me at the moment...
later I hope that "dumb" users like me will be able to utilize things like this W/O being able to understand coding.

seem more and more that the N900 will Rock, I have tried to use my N95 more as a computer with Phone function and now I will get exactly that can't wait

Don't worry about what we were talking about, as long as you don't want to use your N900 as UPnP server for other clients.