minidlnad(8)

1minidlnad(8)                System Manager's Manual               minidlnad(8)
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NAME

6       minidlnad - MiniDLNA DLNA/UPnP-AV Server
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SYNOPSIS

9       minidlnad options
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DESCRIPTION

13       minidlna  is  a lightweight but very functional DLNA/UPnP-AV server al‐
14       lowing easy sharing of your media files including pictures to any capa‐
15       ble  device  or client on your local wired and wireless network. Common
16       PC software like totem is  a  good  lightweight  and  fast  choice  for
17       Linux/BSD;  more  fully featured software for Linux, Windows and MAC is
18       XBMC, also Mediahouse on Android, and any media sharing capable  DVR/TV
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OPTIONS

23       minidlna's  options are normally set from the global /etc/minidlna.conf
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25       But there may be times when you need to temporarily alter some of these options,
26       you can do this by running minidlna with the following command line switches.
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30              This forces minidlna to rescan all of the media_dir directories.
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34              Run minidlna with a different configuration file than the global
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39              Allows to run minidlna on a different port.
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VERSION

76       This man page corresponds to minidlna version 1.1.0
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AUTHOR

80       minidlna developed by Justin Maggard  https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/
81       man page written by Noel Butler <noelb@ausics.net>
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FILES

85       /usr/sbin/minidlnad
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