pDLNA is an UPnP and DLNA service which serves multimedia content to compatible clients on the network and is written in Perl. The latest version of pDLNA is 0.70.2 released at 2018-11-01.

Software, like pDLNA, is also known as digital media server (DMS), which stores content and makes it available to networked digital media players (DMP) and digital media renderers (DMR).

This software is licensed under the term and condition described in the General Public License (GPL) 3.0: a copy of the GPL 3.0 can be found in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

It grants to you the following freedoms:

• The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
• The freedom to study how the program works and adapt it to your needs.
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
• The freedom to improve the program and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

Have a look at the more detailed » compatibility table «, which is by the way a little bit outdated.

If you like to add support for another device or just join the developement, feel free to fork the project or supply patches on github.

After buying myself a new Samsung LED TV supporting UPnP/DLNA, i wasn't really satisfied with the software which is needed to be running as a server. Here some problems I experienced:

• Samsung PC Manager: This software isn't able to update the database automatically, after adding or deleting files from/to the harddisk and it is a must to have Windows installed.
• miniDLNA: There were quite a few problems, i had with that software. After having some problems to get it running and an initial database generation, the menu structure on the TV itself was really bad and adding some more directories to monitor for new media didn't work at all.
• ps3mediaserver: It seams great, but ...

So I decided to start my own project.