I got a new TV for the living room (a Panasonic Viera TX-L39E6E) which is DLNA capable. To be honest I’m also planning to build some kind of media center, maybe a really low power one, based on some kind of raspeberry-pi lookalike device. Anyway, for now I’m using my workstation (Fedora 19 x86_64) to stream video contents using miniDLNA. First of all, let’s install it with the usual: $ sudo yum install minidlna Then, edit the following file: …

Yesterday was the big day, Fedora Schrödinger's Cat 19 stable release was released. Since I had a free afternoon I decided to install it on my Thinkpad, and luckily everything was fine, even Anaconada installer issues with UMTS modules are gone, VMware Workstation 9.0.2 was working fine and so on. The only issue I had was with DeaDBeeF audio player, I am using it from quite a long time and I like it a lot; too bad it’s not included in the default Fedora’s repos nor in the epel ones so every time I have to install it manually. On the official site there’s no sign of an rpm built for Fedora 19 (ok, I understand it, it’s been released less than 48 hours ago) and I don’t seem to be able to install the one for Fedora 18, so I decided to compile it from source, and that was a PITA to say the least. The README file included in the source code tar.gz archive is not of much help since, even with all the listed dependencies installed, after a good 2 o 3 minutes of compilation I got only an half working program which shows up properly but doesn’t play any kind of audio file. Official documentation pages are also well hidden, but at least they are somewhat useful to compile the program so I guess it’s a good idea publicise them here. Needed dependencies (rpmfusion free and non-free required) are: …