Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:35:10 +0000 From: Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk> To: 'FreeBSD' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV Message-ID: <4C0F7421AA759346AF17299922AD57EB0658BC@Mercury.universe.galaxy.lcl> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP211A87A1B68251B14A0339693580@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP211A87A1B68251B14A0339693580@phx.gbl>
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Been here ... cursed that, your TV is not seeing the folders directly at least not in the traditional sense, it is likely that it is using WMP as a DLNA server which will transcode the media in to a format that your TV can play by streaming. You solution is in ports /net/serviio You can find more information here http://www.serviio.org Do not worry that it mentions Win Mac and Linux, it does work great on FreeBSD . Regards Graeme -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Carmel Sent: 13 March 2012 17:30 To: FreeBSD Subject: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV Presently, I have three HD TVs, two Samsung and one Sony. On these TVs there is a menu where I can access remote devices to access music or videos. By marking the folders "shared" in Windows, these folders are available on these TVs. I have found no way to accomplish the same thing with my FreeBSD-8.2 PC. Simply using Samba and creating a shared music or video directory does not work. I contacted Samsung and they told me that they do not support architecture other than Microsoft & MAC and that I should contact whoever wrote the OS I am working with for assistance. I didn't bother with Sony since I assume I would have only gotten the same response. If anyone understands what I am talking about and has a feasible solution I would love to hear. I had considered either mapping a drive in Windows that pointed to the FreeBSD share or creating a link to it. I would prefer not to have to go that route however, even if it did work. I probably should add that this entire system is wireless with the exception of the FreeBSD machine that is hard wired to the wireless router. -- Carmel carmel_ny@hotmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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