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Ryad El-Dajani
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Ryad El-Dajani

Ryad El-Dajani is a software engineer and passionate technology enthusiast. He developed an interest in computers when he was 10 years old. Soon thereafter, he began to learn his first programming languages. After he had completed his training as an IT specialist, he worked on several e-commerce Internet projects. Currently, he is studying business computing and works for a big IT company in Germany, realizing various IT projects based on Java or .NET technologies. Besides the classic application development, he has professional experience in realizing projects based on web frameworks such as Spring, Play, Symfony, eZ Publish, and Magento. Moreover, he has been excited about all kinds of Unix-like embedded systems since the revolutionary SheevaPlug.
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Setting up a UPnP media server


In this final recipe, we are going to set up a UPnP media server. In this case, it is the DLNA server MiniDLNA (also known as ReadyMedia). For legibility reasons, we are using the old term MiniDLNA.

Getting ready

The following ingredients are required for our upcoming DLNA server:

  • A running Banana Pi with a Debian-based Linux system

  • A configured network on the Banana Pi

How to do it…

Setting up MiniDLNA is relatively simple. As always, you need to install the required package and configure some parameters. Let's do it:

  1. Open a shell on your Banana Pi.

  2. We are going to place our media files like video or audio files into a directory on our external HDD. Therefore, we create a new media directory on our NTFS partition. Make sure, that the HDD is mounted:

    $ mkdir /mnt/ntfs_partition/media
    
  3. Place some media files into that new directory, for example, the free Big Buck Bunny movie:

    $ cd /mnt/ntfs_partition/media
    $ wget http://mirrorblender.top-ix.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies...
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Ryad El-Dajani

Ryad El-Dajani is a software engineer and passionate technology enthusiast. He developed an interest in computers when he was 10 years old. Soon thereafter, he began to learn his first programming languages. After he had completed his training as an IT specialist, he worked on several e-commerce Internet projects. Currently, he is studying business computing and works for a big IT company in Germany, realizing various IT projects based on Java or .NET technologies. Besides the classic application development, he has professional experience in realizing projects based on web frameworks such as Spring, Play, Symfony, eZ Publish, and Magento. Moreover, he has been excited about all kinds of Unix-like embedded systems since the revolutionary SheevaPlug.
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