Overview

Cohen is a DLNA/UPnP Media Server written in Python, providing several UPnP MediaServers and MediaRenderers to make simple publishing and streaming different types of media content to your network.

Cohen is actually a highly simplified and refreshed version of Coherence Framework project by Frank Scholz which looks like no longer supported.

• Latest release: 0.7.3 (Changelog)
• GitHub: https://github.com/unintended/Cohen
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/unintended/Cohen/issues
• PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cohen
• Free software: MIT licence

Features

Cohen is known to work with various clients

• Sony Playstation 3/4
• XBox360/One
• Denon AV Receivers
• WD HD Live MediaPlayers
• Samsung TVs
• Sony Bravia TVs

And provides a lot of backends to fulfil your media streaming needs

• Local file storage
• YouTube
• Twitch.tv
• and much more...

Quickstart

To just export some files on your hard-disk fire up Cohen with an UPnP MediaServer with a file-system backend enabled:

$ cohen --plugin=backend:FSStore,content:/path/to/your/media/files

You can also configure cohen via a config file. Feel free to check our example misc/cohen.conf.example. The config file can be placed anywhere, cohen looks by default for $HOME/.cohen, but you can pass the path via the commandline option ‘-c’ to it too:

$ cohen -c /path/to/config/file

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Source code
  • Dependencies
  • Starting as Service
• Command-Line Interface
  • SYNOPSIS
  • DESCRIPTION
  • OPTIONS
  • EXAMPLES
  • AVAILABLE STORES
  • FILES
  • ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
  • SEE ALSO
• Backends (Plugins)
• Twitch Store Backend