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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'm using Ubuntu 12.04. I don't like
using STS releases. I'll upgrade to 14.04.<br>
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I've now been able to get Plex to see a /TV folder (with me as the
owner) & its contents. It looks like there's a bug in Plex
preventing it seeing the Videos folder setup by Ubuntu in my home
folder. I was 'corresponding' with someone on Ubuntu Forums about
playing video from a PC to a TV. He recommended Plex. To play a
video 'monitored' by PLex, he said:<br>
"For example, I have a plex server and a number of DLNA client
devices and DLNA "renderers". Often, the "client" and the
"renderer" are the same - like Android or WDTV or Roku or
Chromecast devices. Using the WDTV, when I ask it to connect to a
"media server", it shows a list available on the LAN, I select
"Plex-something" and it shows a pseudo-menu with Video, Music and
Photos. I select Video and it displays Movies, Adult, Videos,
Home, and TV. Each of those have been specified in the Plex web
GUI as "video" content folders. You probably just want "videos" if
there isn't IMDB metadata you want. TV, Movies **must** be
separate and content that won't have metadata needs to be
separate.<br>
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So ... any DLNA client should "see" the plex server on the
network. No authentication needed. The chromecast is the only
device that I have which DOES NOT act like a DLNA client - it is
just a "renderer" capable of being "streamed at" from a client.<br>
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The Plex web interface doesn't let you "stream at" your TV/media
player, at least mine doesn't. My TVs are not networked - all I
need is for the damn TV to be hit with a virus and never patched
again. <img src="cid:part1.06070109.09020905@gmail.com" alt=""
title="Wink" class="inlineimg" border="0">"<br>
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I have no idea from the above what to do in order to play a video
from a PC to a TV!<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Regards,
John</pre>
On 16/04/14 17:39, Adam Sweet wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 15/04/14 13:09, John Rose wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Chris,
I don't know what a Roku streaming box is let alone have one. The only
thing that I can think of that might cause this is that I have installed
Plex Media Server in order to play single video files from my
laptop/desktop to my new Sony TV. I've given the TV a fixed ip address
on my home network (i.e. configured my router). I haven't had any
success yet with Plex as it doesn't even want to see my home Videos
folder even though it has permsissions for Others to access it & files
on it have Others' read access. I've tried using minidlna & failed with
it. Any ideas for another ap to do this job?
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I've used minidlna successfully, but not with a TV. As far as I
understand, some TVs can be pretty fussy. Googling for problems with
minidlna (a year ago so I can't remember the specifics) turned up some
config options that can assist with handling TVs from various
manufacturers. Doing the same might help you with minidlna at least. I
know Dave Morley runs Mediatomb, so you might try that too.
About a year ago, I stayed up til 5am trying to set up minidlna on
Ubuntu, (I started at 23:30) and couldn't get it working. I spent
another 4 hours the next day, including downloading it from the upstream
author's website before giving up.
6 months later I upgraded to the next Ubuntu release, then a month or
two later decided to have another go at minidlna and it just worked out
of the box after I'd pointed it at media. Still no idea what the problem
was, but I can only assume a software bug. It's worked for me since
Ubuntu 13.10.
Regards,
Adam Sweet
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