Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 16:05 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >> I don't have a separate directory per format, but use directories
> for
> >> TV, Movies, Home Video etc.
> > I have similar directory structures, but I have now resolved my
> issue
> > with dlna not being able to see the top level directory that
> contained
> > the sublevel directories containing mkv files. I tried renaming the
> top
> > level directory from windows but the client still couldn't see it.
> It
> > wasn't until I refreshed the multimedia service on the server that
> the
> > client could then see the directory, sub-directories and mkv files.
> What
> > I don't understand is why dlna had trouble seeing the directories
> but
> > NFS and Samba had no issues at all.
> 
> Most DLNA servers create a database containing the content. If you
> changed the layout or anything like that, you have to have the DLNA
> server rescan the directories to find the content and hand it off to
> the
> clients.

Simply adding new content doesn't usually require an explicit rescan
because the server is watching a given set of directories. Changing the
structure typically does mean a rescan because the set of directories to
be watched has changed.

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