History of UPNP Servers

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There are a number of options to serve up a media archive as UPNP streamed material, but additional work needs to be carried out to identify which can provide most if not all of the preferred facilities.</p>
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((Mediatomb))</td>
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<a href="http://mediatomb.cc/">Mediatomb</a></td>
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No search facility</td>
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Not available as server on windows</td>
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((VUZE))</td>
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<a href="http://www.vuze.com/">VUZE</a></td>
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No transcoding</td>
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Also torrent client</td>
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<a href="http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de/">FUPPES</a></td>
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<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/">MythTV</a></td>
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Not available as server on windows</td>
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/">minidlna</a></td>
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<a href="http://brisa.garage.maemo.org/">BRisa</a></td>
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Not available as server on windows</td>
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<a href="http://coherence.beebits.net/">Coherence</a></td>
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Not available as server on windows</td>
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<a href="http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/about/">PS3 Media Server</a></td>
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<a href="http://www.gupnp.org/about">gupnp</a></td>
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<a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/gupnp">php library</a></td>
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Maintained by Intel OSTC</td>
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<a href="http://www.dbpoweramp.com/asset-upnp-dlna.htm">Asset UPnP</a></td>
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Audio only</td>
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Windows only</td>
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Source material</h4>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_UPnP_AV_media_servers">Comparison_of_UPnP_AV_media_servers</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UPnP_AV_media_servers_and_clients"><br />
List_of_UPnP_AV_media_servers_and_clients</a><a href="http://www.upnp-database.info/"><br />
http://www.upnp-database.info/</a><br />
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Other tools</h4>
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<a href="http://djmount.sourceforge.net/">djmount</a>Mounts compatible UPnP AV devices as a Linux filesystem copy of the media content.</p>