Serviio

Bought a Samsung BD-D8500 last summer, mostly in order to be able to watch my movies I keep on several Windows Servers. Samsung's Allshare DLNA-client promised a lot and delivered less than even anticipated. After almost a year's worth of bugtrackingm, reinstalling and cursing I finally gave up and googled for alternatives. Serviio showed up as one of the first in the hit list.

Checked the web site and saw it was a cross-platform project - sounded serious , I decided to give it a shot.

To my surprise I had it up and running in just about no time... My biggest movie server at home is about 2,5TB, and which Samsung Allshare needed almost a week (including freezes, locks and general mayhem) to finish up. Serviio managed in under one hour. How can you not like that??!

Anyway, as mentioned, my hardware:

* Samsung BD-D8500: BD-player, recognised as "Samsung TV/PVR B/C type" IIRC.
* Three Windows Server 2003 R1 and 2, all 32b, running on an Amd Sempron/3000MHz and two Intel P4/2,8GHz.
* One client station, my own desktop, an Amd X2/4400, running Windows 7 SP1 x64.

All in all, install and config was pretty much painless.

Thanks Serviio-devs!

Just as adrian_vg I want to thank developers for this awesome software. I'm an owner of TV Samsung UE40D6000 and have been using AllShare server for few months.
Decided to give up on it after last update which brought nothing new but instead caused popup notifications to appear like... 50 times a day even though I checked
several times in options that I do not want to be notified by this & that device etc.
Also, forcing me to manually run scan of my only shared folder each time I added a new file there was just inexcusable limitation of that crappy software.
After having AllShare completely uninstalled from my Win 7 x64 I downloaded serviio 0.6.2, installed it and configured few settings without even needing to look for manual
of any sort. Then I turned on my TV that is connected via LAN to my router and it was immediately and properly recognized. First I was a bit scared by multitude of (fake)
folders that appeared on the screen but soon after I found where in the settings I can switch off all categorization and kept only old-fashion FOLDER presentation.
Since then I don't need to touch anything on my PC and can focus on exploring options this software has to offer - great thanks once again.
I'm gonna donate soon I guess because the author surely deserves some appreciation.