I use DLNA with minidlna on a Linux NAS.
I am struggling to understand the reason for different Menu items for “Video”, “Photos” and “Music” on the WD Live. They all take me to the same DLNA structure.
So if I click Video on my WD, it takes me to a screen where I see a menu of “Video”, “Photos” and “Music” (generated by DLNA server), I then have to select “Video” to see my Video content.
But if I click Music on my WD, it takes me to a screen where I see the same menu of “Video”, “Photos” and “Music”, (generated by DLNA server), I then have to select “Photos” to see my Video content.
Why do I need to do Video then Video? Also I have found if I click “Photos” on the WD, and it takes me “Video”, “Photos” and “Music”, I can then select Video and play Videos. So the fact I selected “Photos” from the WD menu seems irrelevant.
The whole structure seems a bit redundant. I researched this in a few DLNA forums, and apparently its because the WD just asks for all Containers, with no filtering so the DLNA server just returns “Video”, “Photos” and “Music”. If it does this why bother having separate Menus, for “Photos”, “Videos” and “Music”, why not just use the “Files” menu item?
My SamsungTV on the other hand appears to ask for Video content only when I select its Video menu, so the DLNA server only returns the Video structure.
Is this the same for other people, or is it down to my minidlna server?