cli2dlna

cli2dlna: CLI to DLNA

Command line tool to play media on remote renderers.
This is just a Proof-Of-Concept code and it has some limitations.
Right now:

• it can work with only one renderer.
• limited number of functions (stop/start/pause/play)
• it does not share your media via http. This should be done by other stuff, like nginx

However it works!

Docker build

$ docker build -t mitroko/cli2dlna:latest --network host .

Alias for docker image use

$ alias cli2dlna.py='docker run --rm --name cli2dlna -v /etc/renderer.cache:/renderer.cache -ti mitroko/cli2dlna'

Examples:

$ cli2dlna.py -f /path/to/media/file.mp4

Assuming you have running web server on 80 port that shares your media (document_root is /path/to/media/).
Script will notify your UPnP renderer to get media from this server (ie: http://server:80/file.mp4).
You should have already configured own web server for file share.

$ cli2dlna.py -u 'http://some.other.server.net/with/file.mp4'

Script will notify your UPnP renderer to get media from this url.

$ cli2dlna.py -y 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA'

Script will call youtube-dl executable to process your request.
Therefore, you should have youtube-dl binary installed to use this option.
By default script assumes, that youtube-dl is located in /usr/local/bin.
You may change this behavior by setting YOUTUBE_DL environment variable(ex: YOUTUBE_DL=/usr/bin/youtube-dl) youtube-dl will be executed as subprocess with -g key to get http link.
Afterthat, this link will be sent to your UPnP renderer.

$ cli2dlna.py -c

Scan for remote renderers in your network.

$ cli2dlna.py -C

Script will send Play command to continue playing current media

$ cli2dlna.py -P

Script will send Pause command to pause playing current media

$ cli2dlna.py -S

Script will send Stop command to stop playing current media

$ cli2dlna.py -V80

Script will send "set volume level to 80%" command to xbmc

$ cli2dlna.py -Vi

Script will send increase volume command to xbmc

$ cli2dlna.py -Vd

Script will send decrease volume command to xbmc

$ cli2dlna.py -Vm

Script will send mute volume command to xbmc

$ cli2dlna.py -Vu

Script will send unmute volume command to xbmc

$ cli2dlna.py -h

Script will show you usage information

Script stores renderer address to renderer.cache file to avoid SSDP lookups.

HINTS

To play multiple tracks use either ls or cat playlist file:

$ ls -1 /path/to/Videos/*.mp4 | while read line; do
    T=$(( $(ffprobe -i "${line}" -show_format -v quiet | sed -n 's/duration=//p;' | sed 's/\..*//g') + 5 ))
    /path/to/cli2dlna/cli2dlna.py -f "${line}"
    sleep ${T}
  done;

To avoid extra SSDP lookups, don't forget to make /path/to/cli2dlna/ writable for cli2dlna.py.