Best Software for streaming movies from my server to my DLNA player

[Asylum]

Going to be redoing my server with some new hardware and was wondering what the best software would be.

I have a Samsung bluray player and use Allshare play right now and it works pretty well.

Will be installing Windows 7 Ultimate on my server and using remote desktop from my PC to add files.

Movie files will be 4gb apiece with mp4 and mkv format.

 

[blobster21]

Samsung Link is the successor of allshare. Be sure to give a try ! new & improved !

http://techlife.samsung.com/share-content-samsung-1353.html

http://link.samsung.com

The software can be downloaded from softpedia right away :
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/File-Sharing/AllShare.shtml

 

[Aquinus]

I personally use MiniDLNA on my Ubuntu multi-purpose gateway server. It's super lean and works on just about everything.

The issue you'll have with MKV support is that the device playing the content needs to support the container and I'm not sure if DLNA itself as a standard supports MKV either. I've needed to re-encode video to be suitable for not just DLNA (by making it MP4) but by ensuring that the H.264 profile and settings are device friendly. The real only way to get around this headache is to have some dedicated HTPC hardware.

You may have to play around with video formats until you find one that player likes.

 

[remixedcat]

I recommend mediabrowser. very excellent performance, twice as fast as PLEX and updates libraries much faster then PLEX.

I don't recommend plex anymore due to updates mucking stuff up bad as well as having very terrible performance lately. older versions were much better. Now it takes 30-40 minutes to update library when you acuire new content.

works very well with my roku tv and my roku 1 player.