Slinger: an Open Source Free UPnP Media Server

A simple CLI for streaming media files over a local network to UPnP media renderers.

Designed to work with cheap HDMI/DLNA/UPnP/Miracast Dongles.

Features

• Stream a video file to a UPnP Media Renderer
• Play and pause video during playback
• Skip forward and backward during playback
• Add subtitles to the video
• Integrate with FFmpeg to do on the fly transcoding

How to use Slinder?

Make sure you have a UPnP streamer online on your local network, then run:

$ slingr ~/path/to/media.file

To target a specific device:

$ slingr --device 192.168.33.44 ~/path/to/media.file

To add subtitles to the playback:

$ slingr --subtitles ~/path/to/subtitles.file ~/path/to/media.file

How to control?

During playback use the following controls:

• Space - Play / Pause
• q - Quit

License

Slinger is released under the GPL-3.0 License.

Resources

• Source code