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Multiple instances of readydlna
Hi,
My nas contains media for both me and my kids.
All this media is now included in a simple DLNA tree.
However, some media is not really child friendly.... (think horror here...... not pron).
I would like to be able to configure 2 DLNA servers..... say the parent one containing all media for the adults in the house, and
one child-friendly one with all that media....
Browsing the respective dlna servers would also be easier because there is less media to go through..
Is this possible with minidlna ?
Can someone create a additional plugin for minidlna which runs another server with a additional config file.. ?
I would not really like it to install yet another dlna server on top.... minidlna suits my purposes pretty will...
Fred
My nas contains media for both me and my kids.
All this media is now included in a simple DLNA tree.
However, some media is not really child friendly.... (think horror here...... not pron).
I would like to be able to configure 2 DLNA servers..... say the parent one containing all media for the adults in the house, and
one child-friendly one with all that media....
Browsing the respective dlna servers would also be easier because there is less media to go through..
Is this possible with minidlna ?
Can someone create a additional plugin for minidlna which runs another server with a additional config file.. ?
I would not really like it to install yet another dlna server on top.... minidlna suits my purposes pretty will...
Fred
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- I'm sort of glad to see I'm not the only one having this issue. :)
Like you, my ReadyNAS contains some media that's safe to stream with full access and some that I want to have a bit of access control on. But I can't find a reasonable way to do that. I currently have one share with music and "safe" video, and another share with R-rated video - with the former being set to full read and write access and the latter having stricter user policies. The all-access share is streamed with ReadyDLNA. But I can not find a reasonable way to stream the second share over DLNA.
If ReadyDLNA could run two instances, I could turn one of them on and off as needed. That's slightly more hazzle than I would prefer, but I can live with it. But I can't even do that - ReadyDLNA will only stream one share at the time.
(I also think it's a bit odd that the DLNA is so open. Game consoles and TV decoders have provisions for access control - so it's not like the concept is unknown to manufacturers.) - Hi Frosty,
I have submitted a patch to minidlna implementing the possibility of running multiple instances of minidlna (UUID in config needs to be specified to create a unique server).
Multiple instance support will probably not implemented in the netgear addon of minidlna, but multiple instances could be started using something like:
/usr/sbin/minidlna -f /path/minidlna.conf1 -p /tmp/conf1.pid
/usr/sbin/minidlna -f /path/minidlna.conf2 -p /tmp/conf2.pid
From my point of view this would be sufficient for my immediate needs.
Keep your fingers crossed :-)
fred
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