Hi,

Firstly I am not sure if this is the right area to post this question so I apologise in advance.

For the past two weeks I have been pulling my hair out trying to setup my own media server. The hardware side is no issue, thats all setup and working fine.

My issue is software. I have tried the following:

Ubuntu Server with the following:
Ushare - UPnP
Mediatomb - UPnP/DNLA
XBMC
Plex

FreeNAS with DNLA and UPnP and Mediatomb

The problem I am having is the playing of different movie formats. For example I have some that are *.avi and some that are *.mp4. I have tried transcoding with scripts etc and nothing seems to work.

Does anyone out there have good experience in this area and a system that works full proof for them. Unfortunately I have no friends that have any experience in this area.

Oh by the way I want to play the movies from my wireless Media center a Pinnacle Show Center 250HD and a D-Link DSM-320.