Stream my movies to my Nexus7 and other devices?

Question

I am running Kubuntu 12.10 and have a 350gb hard drive that has a bunch of videos on it and I am wondering if it is possible to stream the movies over my local network. I think it would be really cool if there was a way to do this so I could wathc the movies wherever I want on my Nexus 7. Is this possible? Does it make sense what I'm looking to do?

Thanks in advance,

Jonathan

I prefer PS3 Media Server myself, but check out http://askubuntu.com/questions/1755/what-dlna-server-to-choose for a question on Media Servers. — James, Dec 15 '12 at 04:36

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

We sucessfully stream video to our Android devices with a combination of

minidlna on our content server and
Bubble UPnP on the Android device.

After installation of minidlna you will have to edit the configuration file /etc/minidlna.conf (as root) to give your media content directories:

media_dir=V,/home/<user>/Videos  # for video content

The streaming service will be run or stopped with

sudo service minidlna start
sudo service minidlna stop
sudo service minidlna restart  # for changes in config to take effect

Stream my movies to my Nexus7 and other devices?

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