Sony finally released a DLNA media player for the PlayStation 4 on June 16, 2015. I don’t have a lot of streamable media, but what I do have is stored on my laptop.

1. Want to try Yosemite on your Windows PC or laptop? Here is the complete guide on Yosemite macOS X installation with step by step instructions.
2. There are times when you may want to avoid using App Store or the built-in recovery mode to install OS X 10.10 Yosemite. So, Apple continues to give you the option of creating a bootable USB drive.

Create Install Media Yosemite City

I have used Plex in the past, but it is overly complicated and “heavy” for my needs. I wanted a light weight DLNA server that could be daemonized and point to a media directory. minidlna turned out to be the answer.

First, install Homebrew. You can install minidlna manually, but Homebrew makes everything much easier.

Once Homebrew is installed, install minidlna:

Install Yosemite From Usb

Install Yosemite Server Backup and the Bare Metal Disaster Recovery option on each computer that will use disaster recovery. Create a full backup of your system. Create the bootable media. It is good practice to create two sets of bootable media in the event the first set fails during disaster recovery. Once done, click on Apply to create this partition. Step 3: Download OS X 10.10 Yosemite from Mac App Store. Once downloaded, quit the installer and make sure that the OS X Yosemite installer that you downloaded from the Mac App Store, is in Applications folder, and set to its default name; ‘Install OS X Yosemite.app’.

Create Install Media Yosemite Free

At the time of writing, I setup version 1.1.4.2 minidlna. The rest of this post will reference that version. Change the version as needed.

If you want minidlna’s directories, files, and logs to reside in the .config directory of your home folder, create the following directories. Otherwise, create them elsewhere.

For some reason brew does not setup the necessary minidlnad symlinks. So, create them manually:

Create file ~/.config/minidlna/minidlna.conf with the following contents. If your media is not stored in /Users/foo/.config/minidlna/media, change media_dir to the directory of your choice:

Finally, start minidlnad:

If you have the OS X Firewall turned on, you will be prompted to allow minidlnad through the firewall. Of course, allow it through if you want to be able to stream anything.

By default, minidlnad will scan for new media every 895 seconds. You can change this by killing the current minidlnad process:

And starting minidlnad with the following command:

You can force a re-scan of your media directory by killing the minidlnad process and starting it with the following command:

Now, you should be able to open Media Player on your PS4 and stream your media. Supported media formats can be found here.