# Linux Equiv of MSFT Media Server

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-equiv-of-msft-media-server/332507>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 23, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-equiv-of-msft-media-server/332507 "2005-11-23T23:30:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-equiv-of-msft-media-server/332507/1 "2005-11-23T23:30:17Z")

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Is there an equivalent of Microsoft Media Server for Linux? I’m looking for something that would allow me to stream WMV, MPEG 4, and other video formats from a Linux server to Windows Media Player running on a Windows PC.

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**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-equiv-of-msft-media-server/332507/2 "2005-11-23T23:54:55Z")

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You should look at twonkyvision.

[http://www.twonkyvision.de/UPnP/index.html](http://www.twonkyvision.de/UPnP/index.html)

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**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-equiv-of-msft-media-server/332507/3 "2005-11-24T01:59:33Z")

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I read through the site and I’m not sure if it does what I want. I’m looking for something that can stream to Windows Media Player. I may download it and play with it.

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**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-equiv-of-msft-media-server/332507/4 "2005-11-24T02:07:42Z")

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I have a rokulabs mp3 player. I use Microsoft Media Server to send music to the player. The twonkyvision software is suggested by roku for use if you have a linux box. I did use the windows version of twonkyvision to send music to the roku but went back to media server because browsing by some of the mp3 tags did not work very well.

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**Author:** ![rkts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@rkts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rkts)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-equiv-of-msft-media-server/332507/5 "2005-11-24T02:22:08Z")

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Vlc?