Cohen
Simple DLNA/UPnP Media Server
Overview
Cohen is a DLNA/UPnP Media Server written in Python (v2), providing several UPnP MediaServers and MediaRenderers to make simple publishing and streaming different types of media content to your network.
Cohen is actually a highly simplified and refreshed version of Coherence Framework project by Frank Scholz which looks like no longer supported.
- Documentation: https://cohen.readthedocs.org/
- GitHub: https://github.com/unintended/Cohen
- Issue tracker: https://github.com/unintended/Cohen/issues
- PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cohen
- Free software: MIT licence
Features
- Cohen is known to work with various clients
- Sony Playstation 3/4
- XBox360/One
- Denon AV Receivers
- WD HD Live MediaPlayers
- Samsung TVs
- Sony Bravia TVs
- And provides a lot of backends to fulfil your media streaming needs
- Local file storage
- YouTube
- Twitch.tv
- and much more...
Installation from source
After downloading and extracting the archive or having done a git clone, move into the freshly created 'Cohen' folder and install the files with:
$ sudo python ./setup.py install
This will copy the Python module files into your local Python package
folder and the cohen executable to /usr/local/bin/cohen
.
Quickstart
To just export some files on your hard-disk fire up Cohen with an UPnP MediaServer with a file-system backend enabled:
$ cohen --plugin=backend:FSStore,content:/path/to/your/media/files
You can also configure cohen via a config file. Feel free to check our example misc/cohen.conf.example
.
The config file can be placed anywhere, cohen looks by default for
$HOME/.cohen
, but you can pass the path via the commandline option
'-c' to it too:
$ cohen -c /path/to/config/file
Contributing
Report bugs at https://github.com/unintended/Cohen/issues
Feel free to fetch the repo and send your pull requests!