MiniDLNA

MiniDLNA server based on Alpine Linux.

Quick reference

• Where to file issues: Gitea

• Supported architectures: amd64 , armv7 , arm64v8

How to use

Declare env and relative volumes:

IMPORTANT: Declaring more media dirs with incremental numbers.

-e media_1=P,/media/photos
-e media_2=V,/media/video
-v /srv/photos:/media/photos
-v /srv/videos:/media/videos

or...mount a single volume for example -v /srv/collection:/media/collection and declare the corresponding variables by subdirectory, for example

-e media_1=P,/media/collection/photos \
-e media_2=V,/media/collection/videos \

...by docker run:

docker run --rm -d \
--net host \
-e media_1=P,/media/photos \
-v /srv/photos:/media/photos \
--name minidlna rardcode/minidlna

...by docker-compose file:

services:
  minidlna:
    image: rardcode/minidlna
    container_name: minidlna
    environment:
    - media_1=P,/media/photos
    volumes:
    - /srv/photos:/media/photos
    - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
    - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    # You need to run the container in host mode for it to be able to receive UPnP broadcast packets. The default bridge mode will not work.
    network_mode: host
    restart: unless-stopped

Envs

mdPort="8200" # default = 8200
mdFriendlyname="Alpine DLNA Server"
mdInotify="no" # default = yes
mdEnabletivo="yes" # default = no
mdStrictdlna="yes" # default = no
mdNotifyinterval="895"# default = 895

Media dirs

Type of media legend:

"A" for audio  (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
"V" for video  (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
"P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
"PV" for pictures and video (eg. media_dir=PV,/home/jmaggard/digital_camera)

Changelog

v3232.133r3 - 02.01.2026

• Alpine v. 3.23.2
• Minidlna v. 1.3.3-r3