Media Server/DLNA to iPad

Hi,

Probably a strange question considering most would be using the Pi as a media centre...

I would like to configure the Pi to stream video to my iPad - would XBMC do this or should I install something else? Would the Pi be powerful enough to stream movies? I did do a search and found almost nothing on this subject...

Jim.

I have a not-much-more powerful ARM netbook streaming to my computers via dlna. I don't know if xbmc can act as a dlna server, I'm using minidlna. One thing the Pi won't be able to do is transcode on the fly, so your movies must be in an iDevice-compatible format to start with. And you must find a dlna client for your devices, Apples defaults to Airplay which is proprietary.

That sounds promising, I'll take a look at minidlna.

Cheers!

Jim.

Yes, xbmc can do this, so can minidlna

Please take a look here:
SqueezePlug
MiniDLNA is included.

Thanks for all the replies - I tried minidlna last night and got movies streaming to buzz player on the ipad - worked perfectly. I must say, the Raspberry Pi is brilliant! Very impressed.

Jim.

By the way, I am now streaming 1080p mkv video to my ipad with no skipping of frames.

Forget Buzz player - that has no hardware acceleration, I had to jailbreak my ipad2 then install xbmc, now it works perfectly!

Jim.