net/minidlna in FreeBSD

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I installed miniDLNA in my FreeBSD machine to be able to share our
family videos to our home network

Special Thanks to
tangram 
http://linux-bsd-sharing.blogspot.com/2012/06/
howto-install-and-setup-minidlna-on.html

Kefei
http://kflu.github.io/2018/02/04/2018-02-04-freebsd-minidlna/

Install miniDLNA packages
# pkg install minidlna

Configure miniDLNA server
# vi /usr/local/etc/minidlna.conf
media_dir=/my media dir
friendly_name=My DLNA Server

dlna user must be owner of the /var/db/minidlna directory
# mkdir -p /var/db/minidlna
# chown dlna:dlna /var/db/minidlna

add miniDLNA to /etc/rc.conf to start server at boot 
# vi /etc/rc.conf
# miniDLNA
minidlna_enable="YES"

otherwise to start MiniDLNA 
# service minidlna onestart

Each time you add new files to the shared directory you need to 
update the minidlna library. To do so,
# service minidlna onestop
# minidlnad -R
# service minidlna onestart

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