Why is DLNA so broken on Plex?

[K.Mneimneh]

Dear Plex team, moderators, users and everyone… As much as I love Plex, one of the most important feature to me ( and to the whole Band&Olufsen community ) is not working.

DLNA will simply not work with our streaming devices and the community has been trying to troubleshoot, analyze, try workarounds however, Plex is the only DLNA media server that will simply refuse to work with B&O products.

Now I can easily blame B&O for that however, literally every other DLNA server works. You name it… minidlna, mimiserver, Musicbee, WMP12 ( imagine), Twonky, Bubble, UMS and the list goes on.

The problem with Plex is that no matter how small the library is, even with a profile DLNA assigned, the Beosound moment for example will see the server but will not be able to fetch the data. You can wait for hours or days but no, it will simply be remain stuck harvesting at 10%, that’s it.

Dec 18, 2019 09:23:26.784 [0x7f238effd700] DEBUG - Mapped client to profile Twonky-NMC using header User-Agent: Twonky-NMC/8.4.1 (Linux 4.1.40; armv7l; #1 PREEMPT Thu May 17 16:07:14 UTC 2018) DLNADOC/1.50

Dec 18, 2019 09:23:26.784 [0x7f238effd700] DEBUG - Mapped object cdb7ec639c054a088b4b to /library/sections/4/folder part 0 on server http://127.0.0.1:32400/

Other than the Plex DLNA Server.log file and media server server log file, where can we look ? The community has been trying to solve this for the last 2 years ( it’s everywhere on B&O forum ) but most of them moved to Twonky.

If you think DLNA is dead, you’re mistaken since it’s the perfect solution for Hi-Fi systems where high fidelity tracks do matter. Music streaming is nice and all but not every track is available in every region due to territory rights.

I know it sounds like a 1st world issue but can anyone be kind enough to support us ? Not sure which information to share that could be helpful as I don’t know where to start.

[K.Mneimneh]

Anyone ?

[PappaJoe]

Just keeping your request alive buddy (so many threads on here die after the dreaded 90-day limit . . . with no solution posted. What a crock).

I too am struggling with DLNA, though not with your use case. From the very many internet search hits relating to this subject, and the thorny issue of DIY profiles, seems there are other server softwares out there that do a much better job.

DLNA used to be my primary ‘delivery’ method but my Shield solved most of my problems. Then it went toes up: still waiting for the replacement unit, so it’s back to DLNA for my non-smart Panasonic TV.

[triks_melb]

Over the years I have also tried to get DLNA working (Nvidia Shield Server to Panasonic Viera TH-P50VT20A and never succeeded. Ended up using Serviio installed in Docker on my NAS and that seems to work 80%. Plex is great but it does have some major gaps that will most likely never get filled. For me it is no ISO support, lack of DLNA Profiles/easy profile implementation via UI and such limited DVR device support.