How to stream your file then ? This is quite simple in theory: you have to make them compliant with the protocol, that’s all How to do that then ? Well, for each file, the DLNA server has to first demux it, in order to retrieve its A/V and container information, so that it knows whether or not it complies with an existing profile. If it does not and you still want it to be streamed, than the server has to either remux it (best case ever) if it’s enough, or remux and re-encode it on the fly (worst case ever) to a valid profile so that player can read it. Of course, doing so on-the-fly consumes a lot of CPU power, which is, by definition, not available, making it impossible to do on embedded devices, which were the target of DLNA inventors. Also, each file, once demuxed, has to be given a DLNA profile id. The good thing is that, supposing the file _IS_ DLNA compliant and could be decoded by the player but the server has announced it with a faulty ID, then you won’t be able to have it played.
