Replicating Media Server System with DLNA Support

[ira]

Hey all,

I'm currently working on a project where I want to play a video playlist of 1080p videos to a TV/monitor and ideally one or more DLNA Renderers (smart TV's). How many video streams could the Raspberry Pi theoretically encode (at ~28Mbps quality).

External bandwidth would be maxed with a usb dongle at 802.11N 600Mbps but limited to 480Mbps by USB2.0 interface, minus wifi overhead. Probably down to 300Mbps of useable data bandwidth. Also 100Mbps max with ethernet for a total of 400Mbps. So max theoretical number of 28Mbps streams would be 14?

Any one got any experience with this or using the Pi as a DLNA server?

[ghans]

The 480 Mb/s are shared between all connected USB devices including the Ethernet port , which is connected
internally via USB.

There are no fast transcoding mediaservers available for the Pi so far i know -
everything needs to be already encoded in the right format .

ghans

[ira]

I'm probably using encoding in a totally wrong way. Transcoding or encoding isn't what I want to do, just stream a h.264 encoded video to multiple displays through any means possible. Push to a DLNA device seems the best/easiest way of doing it with just one server.

I'll try to make a clearer post in 'Media Servers'.