Software Cross-platform •
Allonis myServer, a multi-faceted media player/organizer with a DLNA/UPnP server, controller, and renderer, including conversion. Runs on Microsoft Windows. Supports most all HTML5 devices as remote controls. • Asset UPnP (DLNA compatible) from Illustrate. An audio specific UPnP/DLNA server for Windows,
QNAP, macOS and Linux. Features audio WAVE/LPCM transcoding from a range of audio codecs,
ReplayGain and playlists. • FreeMi UPnP Media Server, very simple server, historically used to stream to the STB Freebox, based on .net/mono. • Home Media Server, a free media server/player/controller for Windows, Linux, macOS, individual device settings, transcoding, external and internal subtitles, restricted device access to folders, uploading files, Internet-Radio, Internet-Television, Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), DMR-control and "Play To", Music (Visualization), Photo (Slideshow), support for 3D-subtitles, support for
BitTorrent files, Web-navigation with
HTML5 player, Digital Media Renderer (DMR) emulation for
AirPlay and
Google Cast devices. •
Jellyfin, a free and open-source suite of multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. •
JRiver Media Center, a multi-faceted media player/organizer with a DLNA/UPnP server, controller, and renderer, including conversion. Supports Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. •
Kodi (previously XBMC), a cross platform open source software
media-player/
media center for Android, Apple TV, Linux, macOS and Windows. •
LimboMedia, a free cross platform home- and UPnP/DLNA mediaserver with android app and
WebM transcoding for browser playback (build with java and
FFmpeg). •
MinimServer, a Java-based highly configurable uPnP/DNLA music server with additional consideration given to Classical Music, supports transcoding with MinimStreamer, supports Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, and various NAS devices. •
Neutron Music Player, acts as a cross platform UPnP/DLNA Media Renderer server available for
Android,
iOS,
BlackBerry 10 &
PlayBook platforms. Supports gapless playback and has possibility to output rendered audio further to the high-resolution internal DAC or external USB DAC or another UPnP/DLNA Media Renderer with all supported DSP effects applied. •
Plex, a cross-platform and closed source software media player and entertainment hub for digital media, available for macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, as well as mobile clients for iOS (including Apple TV (2nd generation) onwards), Android, Windows Phone, and many devices such as
Xbox. Supports on-the-fly transcoding of video and music. •
PonoMusic World. Based on the JRiver Media Center software, includes similar features along with a store for purchasing HD audio tracks. •
PS3 Media Server, a free cross platform Java based UPnP
DLNA server especially good for AVC and other current HD media codecs with on-the-fly transcoding. •
Serviio, is available with a free and a pro license. It can stream media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Blu-ray player, games console or mobile phone) on a local area network. •
TVMOBiLi, a cross platform, high performance UPnP/DLNA Media Server for Windows, macOS and Linux. •
TwonkyMedia server, a cross-platform multimedia server and entertainment hub for digital media, available for Android, Apple TV, iOS, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox 360. •
Universal Media Server, a free (open source) DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server for Windows, macOS and Linux (originally based on the PS3 Media Server). It is able to stream videos, audio and images to any DLNA-capable device. It contains more features than most paid UPnP/DLNA Media Servers. It streams to many devices including TVs (Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, LG, Philips and more.), PS3, Xbox(One/360), smartphones, Blu-ray players and more. •
vGet Cast, a simple, cross platform (Chrome App) DLNA server and controller for single, local video files. •
Vuze, an open-source Java-based BitTorrent client which contains MediaServer plugin. • Wild Media Server, a media server/player/controller for Windows, Linux, macOS, individual device settings, transcoding, external and internal subtitles, restricted device access to folders, uploading files, Internet-Radio, Internet-Television, Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), DMR-control and "Play To", Music (Visualization), Photo (Slideshow), support for 3D-subtitles, support for
BitTorrent files, Web-navigation with
HTML5 player, Digital Media Renderer (DMR) emulation for
AirPlay and
Google Cast devices.
Android •
BubbleUPnP Android UPnP/DLNA server, player, controller and renderer •
Pixel Media Server, Android UPnP/DLNA Media Server. Supports all popular Video and Audio files. It also support external subtitle file (SRT) •
Plato is an Android UPnP client app that can play videos and audio. •
Toaster Cast Android UPnP/DLNA server, controller and renderer •
vGet, Android App that can play videos embedded in websites on DLNA renderers. •
Media Cast UPnP, Android UPnP client app that can play videos/Audio. •
Media Server Pro is a DLNA server that allows individual file selections for sharing. •
Slick UPnP A minimal and intuitive open-source Android UPnP client app that can play video/audio. (It is not DMS) •
YAACC Open source UPnP controller, renderer and server app
Linux Microsoft Windows •
Sundtek Streamingserver a native Windows TV Server providing DVB, ATSC and ISDB-T via UPnP/DLNA, it also supports streaming media files (it only supports TV devices from Sundtek). •
Stream What You Hear, a Windows application that streams the sound of your computer (i.e.: “what you hear”) to UPnP/DLNA device such as TVs, amps, network receivers, game consoles, etc... •
TVersity Media Server, a Windows application that streams multimedia content from a personal computer to UPnP, DLNA and mobile devices (Chromecast is also supported). It was the first media server to offer real-time transcoding (back in 2005). •
TVersity Screen Server, a Windows application that mirrors the screen of a personal computer to UPnP, DLNA and mobile devices. •
DVBViewer, a Windows application, mainly for TV/Radio recording/playback, but with the ability to stream live TV/radio as well as multimedia files via UPnP/DLNA. •
DivX, a Windows application, mainly for video encoding into DivX format, but has the ability to stream multimedia files via DLNA. •
foobar2000, a freeware audio player for Windows. Highly customizable, audio only. Download of dlna-extension from the developers' webpage necessary. •
Home Media Center, a free and open source media server compatible with DLNA. Includes web interface for streaming content to web browser (Android, iOS, ...), subtitles integration and Windows desktop streaming. This server is easy to use. •
KooRaRoo Media, a commercial DLNA media server and organizer for Windows. Includes on-the-fly transcoding, per-file and per-folder parental controls, powerful organizing features with dynamic playlists, Internet radio streaming, "Play To" functionality and remote device control, burned-in and external subtitles, extensive format support including RAW photo formats. Streams all files to all devices. •
Media Go, media player and tagger •
MediaMonkey, a free media player/tagger/editor with an UPnP/DLNA client and server for
Microsoft Windows •
MusicBee, an audio player, supports UPnP via a plugin. •
Mezzmo, a commercial software package. Mezzmo streams music, movies, photos and subtitles to the UPnP and DLNA-enabled devices. It automatically finds and organizes music, movies and photos, imports multimedia files from iPad, iPhone, iPod, Audio CDs, iTunes, Windows Media Player and WinAmp. DLNA server supports all popular media file formats with real time transcoding to meet the device specifications. •
PlayOn, a commercial UPnP/DLNA media server for Windows, includes a transcoder for streaming web video. •
TVble, a cloud connected (Rotten tomatoes/TMDB etc.), Torrent streaming, DLNA enabled media server. Allows single file or playlist downloads. •
Windows Media Connect from
Microsoft, a free UPnP AV MediaServer and control point (server and client) for
Microsoft Windows • WMC version 2.0 can be installed for usage with
Windows Media Player 10 for
Windows XP • WMC version 3.0 can be installed for usage with
Windows Media Player 11 for
Windows XP • WMC version 4.0 comes pre-installed on
Windows Vista with its
Windows Media Player 11 • WMC can also refer to Windows Media Center. From the Windows Media Center entry in Wikipedia: In May 2015, Microsoft announced that Windows Media Center would be discontinued on Windows 10, and that it would be uninstalled when upgrading; but stated that those upgrading from a version of Windows that included the Media Center application would receive the paid Windows DVD Player app to maintain DVD playback functionality, the main purpose for Media Center's use. This is stated on a Windows 10 FAQ page.
macOS •
Sundtek Streamingserver a native macOS TV Server providing DVB, ATSC and ISDB-T via UPnP/DLNA, it also supports streaming media files (it only supports TV devices from Sundtek). •
FireStream by Cyaneous, Inc., a commercial UPnP/DLNA media server for macOS with advanced transcoding capabilities, per-device profiles and native Mac media organization. • ArkMS by
Arkuda Digital, a full-featured UPnP/DLNA media server for macOS to stream video, music and pictures to UPnP/DLNA/Samsung Link compatible devices from Mac.
Hardware •
ASUS DSL-N55U ADSL Modem Router, supports USB drive media sharing. (Dual Band WIFI, 10/100/1000 Mbit/s) •
ASUS TUF AX3000 v2 WiFi Router, supports USB drive media sharing (iTunes and UPnP Windows Media Server USB applications). •
AVM FRITZ!Box, the newer revisions of these residential gateway devices come with a UPnP/DLNA compliant media server •
Billion 7800xxx series modem-routers come with a built in uPnP/DLNA compliant media server •
Buffalo WBMR-HP-G300H ADSL2+ Modem Router, supports USB drive media sharing, possible to install Open-/DD-WRT. Fast NAS sharing too. (Dual Band WIFI, 10/100/1000 Mbit's) •
Cambridge Audio AXN10 network streamer, supports DLNA UPnP media server features for attached USB drive •
Cambridge Audio CXN10 network streamer, supports DLNA UPnP media server features for attached USB drive •
Cambridge Audio MXN10 network streamer, supports DLNA UPnP media server features for attached USB drive •
D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Attached Storage Enclosure. •
D-Link DNS-325 Share Centre]2-Bay Network Attached Storage Enclosure. •
Linksys WRT610N gigabit Wifi-N router supports UPnP with a USB hard drive, as a Storage feature •
MELCO N1 UPnP ripping server •
Naim NS01 ripping UPnP server and player •
Naim NS02 ripping UPnP server and player •
Naim NS03 ripping UPnP server and player •
Naim HDX ripping UPnP server and player •
Naim UnitiServe ripping UPnP server •
Naim Uniti Core - ripping UPnP server •
Naim Uniti Atom - All in one player with UPnP serving capability •
Naim Uniti Star - All in one player with ripping and UPnP serving capability •
Naim Uniti Nova - All in one player with UPnP serving capability •
Netgear ReadyNAS Includes ReadyDLNA (branded version of miniDLNA) on all ReadyNAS products and some routers as the ReadyShare USB feature. •
Noxon iRadio Series - UPnP player • The
Oppo BDP-103/105 model Blu-Ray Players and UDP-203/205 model UHD 4K Blu-Ray Players are Digital Media Renderers that have UPnP capabilities. •
PCEngine Alix and APU UPnP Media server based on ReadyMedia with EasyMPD •
Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 UPnP Media server based on ReadyMedia with EasyMPD •
SFR Neuf Cegetel NeufBox 5 (Gigabit LAN) and NeufBox 4 (10/100 Mbit/s with firmware 2.0.8) and USB drive key. • All
technicolor DSL/GPON Gateways from the TG712 upwards have an embedded DLNA certified Server (sharing content of a USB attached HDD). • All Synology NAS are DLNA mediaserver and contain a webbased DLNA player which is also available as App for Android or iOS. • Several Panasonic TV and Panasonic DVB-Receivers/Recorders are able to activate via menu the DLNA Server
See also List of NAS manufacturers – there are many uncatalogued NAS devices with UPnP. ==UPnP AV clients==