My custom configuration of MiniDLNA Media Server

minidlna.md

MiniDLNA Arch Linux

DLNA (Digital Living Network Aliance), is collection of interoperability guidelines which set the protocols for multimedia communication

install minidlna

sudo pacman -S minidlna

configure minidlna

port=8200
network_interface=wlp4s0
user=<user>
media_dir=/home/<user>/Videos/
db_dir=/home/<user>/.local/share/minidlna/cache
log_dir=/home/<user>/.local/share/minidlna/log
enable_subtitles=yes

create necessary folders

mkdir -p $XDG_DATA_HOME/minidlna/{cache, log}
sudo mkdir /run/minidlna
sudo chown <user>:<group> /run/minidlna

• cache stores the sqlite db, and /run/minidlna contains the pid file
• permissions are important as we are changing the user as well

configure firewall rules

# nft add rule <family> <table> <chain>
sudo nft add rule inet filter input [position 1] tcp dport 8200 accept comment trivnet1
sudo nft add rule inet filter input [position 1] udp dport 1900 accept comment ssdp

• positions are optional arguments here, depending on the ruleset of the firewall but essentially it has to be before this line:

meta pkttype host limit rate 5/second counter reject with icmpx admin-prohibited

• if errors persist just temporarily remove the entire ruleset like so sudo nft flush ruleset

change runtime user

sudo systemctl edit minidlna.service

# write the following in between the instructed lines on override.conf
[Service]
ProtectHome=off
User=<user>
Group=<group>

start minidlna

sudo systemctl start minidlna

verify the service

http://<ip of media server>:8200

sources:

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/media_server/minidlna
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nftables#Add_rule
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ReadyMedia