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Allonis myServer, a multi-faceted media player/organizer with a DLNA/UPnP server, controller, and renderer, including conversion.If you need a Linux-based solution not from a NAS vendor, there are a bunch to choose from, but they are mostly dead projects.Main article: Comparison of UPnP AV media servers Cross-platform

It's a mature and stable project, but that repository has not been updated in a while, and there have been some DNLA-related CVEs since then, so you might want to do some research to find out if they are relevant to you.

The minidlna server use with some Netgear ReadyNAS devices is available on sourceforge as ReadyMedia. The interface might not be very pretty, but it will probably support at least a folder-style view with video thumbnails, if not just-in-time transcoding. Most NAS have some sort of DLNA server built in. It has some support for on-the-fly transcoding, but it's not as quite good as something like Plex or MB/Emby/Jellyfin. There is a fork called Universal Media Server that is much more up to date. I used to use PS3 Media Server back in the day, and it worked well enough, but it's not updated anymore. For Android TV users, Jellyfin might be enough. Deploying to all those different platforms requires working with hardware vendors and investing some serious funds, so it's coming along a little slower than some people would like, but progress is being made, slowly but surely. The big thing missing is a wide range of official apps across various device families. Being based on a very old fork, it had a lot of catching up to do, but the developers have been working on it for a while and Jellyfin is close to feature parity with Emby now. The community project based on the old source code is called Jellyfin. It used to be open source and completely free. You can use it with your TV for free.Įmby (formerly known as Media Browser or simply MB) is another option that is partially free and costs extra for fancy features. Most Plex features are free, including the DLNA server, but some of the extra options cost money. Fortunately, there are official Plex apps for almost every family of popular streaming devices. Plex has a bult-in DLNA server, but the interface is not quite as good as a full-featured Plex app. Or for best experience, connect it directly to the TV via HDMI port.

You can set it up using the screen and then leave it headless and access everything over DLNA. You're going to need to dedicate a monitor to running the interface all the time, and it might spend a bizarre amount of CPU just drawing the UI, but otherwise it works very well. It will not provide transcoding, so your clients must support the format of whatever file you need to stream. Most people are familiar with using Kodi as a media player that can play just about any file, but it also makes a fine DLNA server. If you have a high degree of control over your media, all you need is a DLNA server.