Using XBMC as your media-server

Okay so I tried many of those media-servers and some of them worked pretty nice. But there's one thing that was really bothering me: All of them were just UPNP but now I wanted to connect the PC directly to my TV so save the energy of the...

MediaTomb as a UPNP Media Server

So XBMC failed. I would have to install X-Server and several other stuff and it is cleary not suited for a standalone upnp server. Maybe sometime in the future I will connect the box to my TV and use XBMC as my frontend. But unti then, I will go back …

uShare Experience

After testing uShare for some time now, I will write down quick and dirty experiences I have made: uShare does not support German "umlauts" like ö,ä,ü etc., at least not in the default setting I could not get uShare to start at system boot. While...

Building uShare with DLNA-Support

If you ever thought about getting a media server to make accessing all your movies and audio files easier, you may have come across the term "UPNP" and such. This is basically what I want: A media server, that can serve media via UPNP (and...