minidlna.conf(5)

NAME
minidlna

DESCRIPTION

minidlna is a light weight but very functional DLNA server. In most cases, the defaults do not need modifications. The global configuration file is /etc/minidlna.conf but local users without system root access can run minidlna with their own configuration file.

OPTIONS

The following are user configurable options in /etc/minidlna.conf. minidlna runs by default as user nobody, so make sure system permissions are set correctly for read access to media and write access to cache and log dirs.

friendly_name
    The name you want your media server seen as, EG: friendly_name=Home Media Server

port
    Port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic etc, defaults to 8200.
    There should be no need to change this.

network_interface
    Network interfaces to serve, comma delimited. Maximum is 8 interfaces. Defaults to all.

strict_dlna
    Set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards.
    This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images,
    which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products.

notify_interval
    Notify interval in seconds. The default is 895 seconds.

minissdpdsocket
    Specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket,
    EG: minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock

serial
    Serial number the daemon will report to clients in its XML description.
    Defaults to 12345678

model
    Model number the daemon will report to clients in its XML description.
    Defaults to 1

media_dir
    Path to the directory containing the media files minidlna should share.
    Use this option multile times if you have more than one directory to share.
    Example:
     media_dir=/opt/multimedia/videos
     media_dir=/opt/multimedia/movies

You can also restrict an entry to a specific media type, you do this by using the following syntax:
   the letter 'A', 'V' or 'P', followed by a comma (',') followed by the path.
   The meaning of the first letter is as follows:
                      'A' for audio files
                      'V' for video files
                      'P' for image files
    For example, if you want to include only video files located
    in /opt/multimedia/videos directory, and only music
    in /opt/multimedia/music, then you would use
                       media_dir=V,/opt/multimedia/videos
                       media_dir=A,/opt/multimedia/music
    Another example would be
                       media_dir=V,/opt/multimedia/videos
                       media_dir=V,/opt/multimedia/movies
                       media_dir=A,/opt/multimedia/music
    Or, if you did not care what type it finds, then you could use
                       media_dir=/opt/multimedia/videos
                       media_dir=/opt/multimedia/movies
                       media_dir=/opt/multimedia/music
    You can mix it up, find anything in music, but only Videos, in videos and movies
                       media_dir=V,/opt/multimedia/videos
                       media_dir=V,/opt/multimedia/movies
                       media_dir=/opt/multimedia/music

presentation_url
    Default presentation url is http address on port 80
    EG: presentation_url=http://www.mediaserver.lan/index.php

db_dir
    Where minidlna stores the data files, including Album cache files, by default this is /var/cache/minidlna

log_dir
    Path to the directory where the log file upnp-av.log should be stored, this defaults to /var/log

log_level
    Set this to change the verbosity of the information that is logged each section can use a different level: off, fatal, error, warn, info, or debug
    Example
    log_level=general,artwork,database,inotify,scanner,metadata,http,ssdp,tivo=warn

inotify
    Set to 'yes' to enable inotify monitoring of the files under media_dir to automatically discover new files. Set to 'no' to disable inotify.

album_art_names
    This should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art and names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/").
    Example
    album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg
    /albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg

enable_tivo
    Set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO, default is no.

tivo_discovery
    Set this to 'beacon' to use the legacy TiVo broadcast discovery method. Defaults to using Bonjour if Avahi support is available.

root_container
    Use a different container as the root of the tree exposed to clients.
    The possible values are:
                 '.' to use the standard container (this is the default)
                 'B' to use the "Browse Directory" container;
                 'M' to use the "Music" container;
                 'V' to use the "Video" container;
                 'P' to use the "Pictures" container.
      If you specify 'B' and the client device is audio only, then
      "Music/Folders" will be used as root container and you wont see Videos.

force_sort_criteria
    Always force SortCriteria to this value, regardless of the SortCriteria passed by the client.
    You may prepend the sort criteria with "!" to alter the titles of the objects so that they
    will be alphanumerically sorted in the order you specify here, to work around clients that do
    their own alphanumeric sorting.
    Example
    force_sort_criteria=+upnp:class,+upnp:originalTrackNumber,+dc:title

wide_links
    Set to 'yes' to allow symlinks that point outside user-defined media_dirs. By default, wide symlinks are not followed.

enable_subtitles
    Set to 'no' to disable subtitle support on unknown clients. By default, subtitles are enabled for unknown or generic clients.

VERSION
This manpage corresponds to minidlna version 1.3.0

AUTHOR
minidlna developed by Justin Maggard  https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/
man page written by Noel Butler <noelb@ausics.net>

LICENSE
GPL

FILES
/etc/minidlna.conf

SEE ALSO
 minidlna(8)