UPnP AV MediaServers

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UPnP AV MediaServers store and share digital media, such as photographs, movies, or music. There are UPnP MediaServers available for most operating-systems and many hardware-platforms. UPnP AV MediaServers can either be categorized as software-based or hardware-based. Software-based UPnP AV MediaServers can be run on PCs (Personal-Computers), mainly on Microsoft Windows, Linux, BSD, Unix or Mac OS X. Hardware-based UPnP AV MediaServers may run on any NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices or any specific hardware for delivering media, such as a PVR (Personal Video Recorder). Currently, there are more software-based UPnP AV MediaServers than there are hardware-based, but chances are that will change in the future.

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[edit] UPnP AV MediaServer

[edit] Software

  • XBMC (Xbox Media Center), a free, open-source software media-player/media-center for Microsoft's Xbox game-console.
  • Windows Media Connect from Microsoft - free UPnP AV MediaServer and control point (server and client) for Microsoft Windows
  • FreeNAS, a free operating-system/software (based on FreeBSD), enabling you to turn any x86-based computer into a dedicated stand-alone NAS (Network-Attached Storage) device. (FreeNAS UPnP server code is from the Portable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK project)
  • MythTV, an open source HTPC and PVR software for Linux, with a built-in UPnP AV MediaServer
  • MediaTomb, open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a nice web user interface
  • Musicmatch Jukebox, a commercial MediaServer UPnP MediaServer and music-player for Windows, (also features media organizing functionality)
  • GeeXboX, an opensource lightweight Media center has uShare for Linux
  • SimpleCenter is a Java-based UPnP AV MediaServer for Windows
  • Philips Media Manager is a free closed source UPnP AV MediaServer for Windows and Macintosh that is based on Streamium
  • Elgato EyeConnect is an OS X add-on for Elgato's EyeTV PVR application. It allows for UPnP streaming of recorded content
  • FUPPES is a free, open source, multiplatform UPnP A/V Media Server. FUPPES supports a wide range of UPnP MediaRenderers as well as on-the-fly transcoding of various audio, video and image formats. FUPPES also includes basic DLNA support.
  • 360 Media Server is a UPnP media server designed for streaming music to the Xbox 360. It is capable of transcoding many non supported formats including AAC, Ogg and Flac as well as the formats the 360 already supports (MP3 and WMA).
  • Gmediaserver is a GNU project.
  • TwonkyMedia is a non-free DLNA certified UPnP mediaserver for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
  • myiHome is a free Java-based UPnP AV MediaServer for Windows, Linux & Mac.
  • BRisa BRisa is written in Python and enables to create MediaServer/MediaRenderer devices allowing users to share and search content from UPnP A/V devices. It will offer a plugin architecture enabling new services such as Flickr to be added as UPnP services
  • Azureus 3.0 Vuze BitTorrent client contains MediaServer plugin.
  • Mezzmo commercial home entertainment software designed for Windows, Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) or Microsoft Xbox 360. It allows to organize, share and stream the photos, music and video files. Free Mezzmo Player is included in the package.

[edit] Hardware

  • NSLU2, a hacked/modded version running ushare (a free open source UPnP MediaServer for Linux), (connect USB 2.0 drives to the NSLU2 and share)
  • Buffalo network-attached storage series (Terastation/Linkstation) a HomeServer (HS) variant runs a uPNP compatible media server; the device can also be hacked with an open-source or commercial Linux software package
  • Conceptronic CHD3NET NAS 3,5" Serial ATA HDD, LAN 10/100.
  • Conceptronic CH3WNAS NAS 3,5" IDE HDD , 10/100/1000 Mbit/s Gigabit LAN, wifi 802.11b/g.
  • Conceptronic CH3SNAS NAS 2 x 3,5" Serial ATA HDD Raid max 1,5 TB(2 x 750GB), 10/100/1000 Mbit/s Gigabit LAN.

All Conceptronic devices has GNU GPL source code available.

  • Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ NAS 4 x 3,5" Serial ATA HDD Raid max 4 TB(4 x 1TB), 10/100/1000 Mbit/s Gigabit LAN.
  • D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure.

[edit] See also

List of NAS manufacturers they are many uncataloged NAS with UPNP.

[edit] UPnP AV clients (ControlPoint)

UPnP MediaServer ControlPoint is the UPnP-client (a 'master' device) that function as digital audio/video players, which can auto-detect UPnP-servers on the network to browse and stream media/data-files from them.

[edit] UPnP control points and player software

[edit] UPnP control point hardware

[edit] UPnP media render hardware