Digital Living Network Alliance

The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a 2.1 Home Network Devices
nonprot collaborative trade organization established by
Digital Media Server (DMS): store content and
Sony in June 2003, that is responsible for dening
make it available to networked digital media playinteroperability guidelines to enable sharing of digital me[3]
ers (DMP) and digital media renderers (DMR). Exdia between multimedia devices. These guidelines are
amples include PCs and network-attached storage
built upon existing public standards, but the guidelines
(NAS)
devices.
themselves are private (available for a fee). These guidelines specify a set of restricted ways of using the stan Digital Media Player (DMP): nd content on digital
dards to achieve interoperability and include almost no
media servers (DMS) and provide playback and renfree audio formats and only the most common (free or
dering capabilities. Examples include TVs, stereos
otherwise) video formats, meaning that DLNA servers
and home theaters, wireless monitors and game congenerally have to support transcoding in order to produce
soles.
a useful service.[4]
Digital Media Renderer (DMR): play content as inDLNA uses Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media
structed by a digital media controller (DMC), which
[5]
management, discovery and control. UPnP denes the
will nd content from a digital media server (DMS).
type of device that DLNA supports (server, renderer,
Examples include TVs, audio/video receivers, video
controller) and the mechanisms for accessing media
displays and remote speakers for music. It is posover a network. The DLNA guidelines then apply a layer
sible for a single device (e.g. TV, A/V receiver,
of restrictions over the types of media le format, encodetc.) to function both as a DMR (receives "pushed"
ings and resolutions that a device must support.
content from DMS) and DMP (pulls content from
As of February 2013,[6] over 18,000 dierent device
DMS)
models have obtained DLNA Certied status, indicated
Digital Media Controller (DMC): nd content on
by a logo on their packaging and conrming their interdigital media servers (DMS) and instruct digital meoperability with other devices.[7] It was estimated that
dia renderers (DMR) to play the content. Content
by 2010 more than 440 million DLNA-certied devices,
doesn't stream from or through the DMC. Examples
from digital cameras to game consoles and TVs, were ininclude Internet tablets, Wi-Fi enabled digital camstalled in users homes.[8]
eras and smartphones.

Digital Media Printer (DMPr): provide printing services to the DLNA home network. Generally, digital media players (DMP) and digital media controllers (DMC) with print capability can print to
DMPr. Examples include networked photo printers
and networked all-in-one printers

History

Sony established the DLNA in June 2003 as the Digital Home Working Group, changing its name 12 months
later, when the rst set of guidelines for DLNA was
published.[1] Home Networked Device Interoperability
Guidelines v1.5 was published in March 2006 and ex- 2.2 Mobile Handheld Devices
panded in October of the same year; the changes included the addition of two new product categories
Mobile Digital Media Server (M-DMS): store conprinters, and mobile devices as well as an increase
tent and make it available to wired/wireless netof DLNA Device Classes from two to twelve and an
worked mobile digital media players (M-DMP), digincrease in supported user scenarios related to the new
ital media renderers (DMR) and digital media printproduct categories.[1]
ers (DMPr). Examples include mobile phones and
portable music players.

Mobile Digital Media Player (M-DMP): nd and

play content on a digital media server (DMS) or mobile digital media server (M-DMS). Examples include mobile phones and mobile media tablets designed for viewing multimedia content.

Specication

The DLNA Certied Device Classes are separated as

follows:[9]
1

3 PRODUCTS SUPPORTING DLNA

Mobile Digital Media Uploader (M-DMU): send 3
(upload) content to a digital media server (DMS) or
mobile digital media server (M-DMS). Examples in3.1
clude digital cameras and mobile phones.
Mobile Digital Media Downloader (M-DMD): nd
and store (download) content from a digital media
server (DMS) or mobile digital media server (MDMS). Examples include portable music players and
mobile phones.
Mobile Digital Media Controller (M-DMC): nd
content on a digital media server (DMS) or mobile
digital media server (M-DMS) and send it to digital
media renderers (DMR). Examples include personal
digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones.

2.3

Home Infrastructure Devices

Products supporting DLNA

DLNA-certied devices

There are over nine thousand products on the market

that are DLNA Certied.[14] This includes TVs, DVD
and Blu-ray players, games consoles, digital media players, photo frames, cameras, NAS devices, PCs, mobile
handsets, and more.[15] According to a study from ABI
Research, nearly 200 million such products shipped in
2008; that number will rise to more than 300 million in
2012, and the growth curve accelerates even faster in the
years that follow.[16] Consumers can see if their product is certied by looking for a DLNA logo on the device
or by verifying certication through the DLNA Product
Search.[17]
Manufacturers can seek certication testing from a
DLNA Accredited Independent Certication Vendor
such as the UNH InterOperability Laboratory,[18] Digital TV Labs,[19] or Testronic.[20]

Mobile Network Connectivity Function (M-NCF):

provide a bridge between mobile handheld device
network connectivity and home network connectiv3.2
ity.

DLNA technology components

Media Interoperability Unit (MIU): provide content As the past president of DLNA pointed out to the Registransformation between required media formats for ter in March 2009:[21]
home network and mobile handheld devices.
The specication uses DTCP-IP as link protection for
copyright-protected commercial content between one device to another.[1][10]
==Member companies== As of February 2014, there
are 17 promoter members and 215 contributor members.
The promoter members are:[11]
ACCESS, Arris, Awox,[12] Broadcom, CableLabs,
Comcast, Dolby Laboratories, DTS, Intel, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics,
Sony Electronics, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon.
DLNA is run by a board of directors consisting of 9 members. There are 8 permanent representatives from the following companies: Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia,
Samsung Electronics, Sony Electronics, CableLabs,
AwoX [12] and one elected by the promoter members.[13]
The board of directors oversees the activity of the four
following committees:
Ecosystem Committee, planning the future development of DLNA guidelines
Compliance & Test Committee, overseeing the certication program and its evolutions
Marketing Committee, actively promoting DLNA
worldwide

The vendors of software are allowed to

claim that their software is a DLNA Technology Component if the software has gone
through certication testing on a device and the
device has been granted DLNA Certication.
DLNA Technology Components are not marketed to the consumer but only to industry.
DLNA Interoperability Guidelines allow manufacturers
to participate in the growing marketplace of networked
devices and are separated into the below sections of key
technology components.[22]
Network and Connectivity[23]
Device and Service Discovery and Control[24]
Media Format and Transport Model[25]
Media Management, Distribution and Control[26]
Digital Rights
Protection[27]

Management

and

Content

Manageability[28]

3.3 DLNA-certied software

In 2005,[29] DLNA began a Software Certication program in order to make it easier for consumers to share
Technical Committee, writing the DLNA guidelines their digital media across a broader range of products.

3.5

Servers

DLNA is certifying software that is sold directly to consumers through retailers, websites and mobile application
stores. With DLNA Certied software, consumers can
upgrade products from within their home networks that
may not be DLNA Certied and bring them into their
personal DLNA ecosystems. This helps in bringing content such as videos, photos and music stored on DLNA
Certied devices to a larger selection of consumer electronics, mobile and PC products.[30]

3.4

DLNA-certied products

Some examples:[31]
AwoX mediaCTRL[32] is a commercial server. It
is based on AwoX DLNA Technology component
software development kits.[33]
CyberLink SoftDMA 2.[34] Appears to be just a
DMP.

3
Microsoft Xbox 360[35] is a DLNA Certied DMP.
Sony PlayStation 3[36] is a DLNA Certied DMP.
Microsoft XBOX ONE[37] is a DLNA Certied
DMP.
BlackBerry Q5 shares multimedia including music,
pictures or videos.
BlackBerry Q10 shares multimedia including music,
pictures or videos.
BlackBerry Z10 shares multimedia including music,
pictures or videos.
BlackBerry Z30 shares multimedia including music,
pictures or videos.

3.5 Servers

Nokia N9 shares multimedia including music, pic- Main article: Comparison of UPnP AV MediaServers
tures or videos.
Nokia Lumia 520 / 521 shares multimedia including
music, pictures or videos.
Nokia Lumia 620 / 720 / 820 / 821 shares multimedia including music, pictures or videos.
Nokia Lumia 920 / 925 / 928 shares multimedia including music, pictures or videos.
Nokia Lumia 1020 shares multimedia including music, pictures or videos.
Nokia Lumia 1520 / 1320 shares multimedia including music, pictures or videos.
Xiaomi Mi 3 / shares multimedia including music,
pictures or videos.
Samsung Galaxy S II shares multimedia including
music, pictures or videos.
Samsung Galaxy S III mini shares multimedia including music, pictures or videos.
Samsung Galaxy S IV mini shares multimedia including music, pictures or videos.
Sony Xperia acro S shares multimedia including music, pictures or videos.
MEIZU MX3 shares multimedia including music,
pictures or videos.
MEIZU MX2 shares multimedia including music,
pictures or videos.
Nero MediaHome 4 a commercial media server for
Windows with realtime transcoding and live TV
streaming functionality. Free trial version is available.

Asset UPnP/DLNA, Audio specic UPnP/DLNA

server for Windows & Windows Home Server. Features album art, audio WAVE/LPCM transcoding
from a huge range of audio codecs, ReplayGain support for streamed audio. Customizable browse tree.
CyberLink Media Server 2.[38] Appears to be just a
DMS.
Jamcast,[39] a DLNA compliant media server for
MS Windows that is capable of streaming any audio playing on the PC to DLNA devices.
JRiver Media Center,[40] DLNA media server for
Windows or Mac. Also includes Renderer and Controller.
Mezzmo[41] is a feature-packed UPnP/DLNA media server with on-the-y transcoding and media organizing features.
PlayOn from MediaMall[42] appears to be a DMS,
also capable of serving streamed internet media such
as Netix, Hulu, Google YouTube, CNN, ESPN.
PS3 Media Server,[43] an open source (GPLv2)
DLNA compliant UPnP Media Server for the Sony
PS3, written in Java, with the purpose of streaming
or transcoding any kind of media les, with minimum conguration.
Serviio[44] is a DLNA media server and works with
any DLNA compliant device with the purpose of
streaming or transcoding any kind of media les
(TV, Sony PlayStation 3, etc.) and some other (MS
Xbox 360). Frequently updated, has a good support
community.

5
Subsonic (media server) Media Server [45]
TwonkyMedia server runs on Windows, Mac OS X,
GNU/Linux and Android and enables media sharing
of local and online media among a large variety of
devices.
TVMOBiLi[46] A shareware DLNA/UPnP Media Server for MS Windows, Apple Mac OS X and
GNU/Linux. Appears to be just a DMS.

REFERENCES

4 See also
UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) AV standards
Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) (lets audio/video equipment cooperate through HDMI connections.)
Devices Prole for Web Services

TVersity, a UPnP MediaServer with strong device

support and on-the-y transcoding.[47] Appears to
be just a DMS.[48]

Digital Rights Management

Wild Media Server (UPnP, DLNA, HTTP),[49] a

media server for MS Windows, Wine (GNU/Linux),
Wineskin on MacOS, featuring individual device
settings, transcoding, external and internal subtitles,
restricted device access to folders, uploading les,
Internet-Radio, Internet-Television, Digital Video
Broadcasting (DVB), DMR-control and Play To,
Music (Visualization), Photo (Slideshow), support
for 3D-subtitles, support for music ngerprints.

List of UPnP AV media servers and clients

Coherence is a framework written in Python to enable applications access to digital living network resources. As a stand alone application it can act as a
UPnP/DLNA media server, in combination with a
supported client as a media renderer.
AllShare[50] (UPnP, DLNA), a Samsung branded
media server for MS Windows. Clients are also
available for mobile Android devices. Eective for
streaming content over a local network to Samsung
devices, notably televisions.
KooRaRoo Media[51] (UPnP, DLNA, HTTP), a
multimedia organizer and a media server for Windows. On-the-y transcoding, supports multiple
video/audio streams in les, includes a DMS (server)
and a DMC (controller) with play to functionality.
Works with all DLNA-compatible devices.
Pixel Media Server[52] is a DLNA compliant Digital
Media Server on Android platform. It makes your
android Phone/Tablet to DLNA Media Server and
publish your media contents (Image/Song/Video)
from your Tablet/Phone to the DLNA home network.
PLEX Media Server

Digital Transmission Content Protection

Comparison of UPnP AV media servers

Miracast

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Nero Media Home[53] is a UPnP/DLNA Media

Server on the Windows platform, streaming music,
videos, photos, and TV shows, It allows to play back
your media les on most popular devices including
Xbox and PlayStation.

[11] Member Companies.

ReadyMedia (formerly known as MiniDLNA)[54] is

a simple open source media server software, with
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[14] DLNA Empowers the Connected Consumer, Connected

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[12] AwoX.
[13] Board of Directors of DLNA

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[43] PS3 media server. Code (project hosting). Google. Retrieved 2011-03-02.

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[44] Serviio.

[19] Digital TV labs.

[45] http://subsonic.org

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6 External links

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DLNA History, Discussion of standard, Mission, CES

participation and member companies, Mahalo.

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