Tiny DLNA

Install

$ pip install tiny-dlna

Usage for Tiny DLNA Render

Just to support subtitles.

$ tiny-render

This will activate a DLNA receiver named "Tiny Render", which can stream videos from apps like 虎牙直播, Bilibili, and other video platforms. Additionally, you can also use tiny-cli play (see below) to play local videos (like in your RaspberryPi) on it.

Save video streaming into a file (Stream Recording)

$ tiny-render --dump-to ~/Movie/lol-msi-2024.mp4

Usage for Tiny DLNA Cli

List available DLNA devices:

$ tiny-cli list

Play a local video file on a DLNA device having "TV" in its name:

$ tiny-cli play ~/Movies/foo/bar.mp4 -q TV

If there is a bar.srt in the same directory, it will be served as long as the DLNA render supports subtitles.

Stop the streaming on a device:

$ tiny-cli stop -q TV

When a video is playing, you can issue a seek command to adjust its postion:

$ tiny-cli seek '00:17:25' -q TV

Requirements for your System

For Render

For running the render, mpv needs to be installed. On Mac, you may do following:

$ ln -sf /Applications/mpv.app/Contents/MacOS/mpv /usr/local/bin/

For Windows, after installed mpv, add mpv.exe's directory into PATH.

For Cli

On Windows, you need config your current user to have permission to create soft links:

1. Open gpedit.msc
2. Computer Configuration → Windows Settings → Security Settings → Local Policies → User Rights Assignment → Create symbolic links
3. Type the user name (checkout whoami command) and click “Check Names” then OK.
4. Reboot the computer

You can also use Develper Mode I guess.

Dev

$ python -m tiny_dlna.tiny_cli -h
$ python -m tiny_dlna.tiny_render -h

Related projects

• https://github.com/xfangfang/Macast
• https://github.com/gabrielmagno/nano-dlna