Here also you can find a rich list of free, and open-source DLNA and UPnP servers, and streamers which you can use freely to set up your own home entertainment system. In this article we will give brief explanations about DLNA, and UPnP devices, streamers, and servers. A free, but unsupported, version is still available.If you want to view certain media files, such as photos and videos from your computer, or mobile on your TV, then you need to have enabled UPnP and DLNA-compliant devices, as well as, to set up a media server. ^ a b Discontinued paid version as of 21 July 2011 see Archived at the Wayback Machine.^ Preliminary experimental support available, see.^ Web interface supported via a Webmin module, see.

^ Patches and discussion at, and branched version to handle transcoding at.^ Free version available with fewer features.^ Must purchase a Microsoft Windows license to use.Must download FFmpeg, VLC or other 3rd-party transcoding engines to use. ^ Transcoding supported in TMS 5.0 and later on the PC.

^ Streaming first 10GByte per month is free of charge.

^ A WIP limited web interface for the optional media library exists in the latest betas.

^ a b c Free version available with fewer features.

^ Only on selected renderers, both embedded subtitles and external SRT.

^ Supports streaming external subtitles (SRT, SMI, SUB), embedded subtitles and burning-in subtitles (including DVD graphical subtitles) on devices that don't support external subtitles.

^ This feature is not in the latest stable release of XBMC but is available in the latest nightly releases.

^ GeeXboX is provided as its own Linux distribution.

^ Audio: using gstreamer, Video: work in progress.

^ a b c d e f g Python or external packages are required.^ a b For example, subtitles are not supported if they only work with few renderers.^ a b For example, multilingual isn't supported if char 'Й' isn't displayed correctly on movie filename on the client device.List of UPnP AV media servers and clients.The following table compares the operating system support and basic features of various UPnP AV media servers.

Universal media server mac