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I am relatively not technical so wanted to post for others folks like me. Very likely this instructions are not needed for more technical folks. This is just consolodating information on multiple sites.

My experience installing miniDLNA on DNS-323.

Setup
DNS-323
firmware: 1.10
hack: fun_plug 0.5
LG Smart TV : 47LM6400
I basically was using the upnp server on the dlink software but i didnt like lack of subtitle support over DLNA. After some research (and trying out on ubuntu) I realized minidlna would work with subtitles

Instructions:
1. Install fun_plug 0.5 (I did this long ago so dont remember but there are plenty of instructions if you google)
2. Connect to dns-323 via telnet
    a. telnet to your dns-323 (if you dont know how to do this, maybe better not to try this whole thing)
3. Download and install minidlna
    a. download by doing "wget http://numsys.eu/divers/minidlna-cvs-fr … .tgz"
    b. install by doing "funpkg -i minidlna-11-02-2012-cvs20120211.tgz"
    c. if successful remove the tgz by "rm minidlna-11-02-2012-cvs20120211.tgz". I run out of space so better to do this.
4. Configure minidlna (edit /ffp/etc/minidlna.conf)
    a. (if file is not writable) "chmod 666 /ffp/etc/minidlna.conf"
    b. "vi /ffp/etc/minidlna.conf" (you can edit this config file multiple ways. if you dont like editing with vi try copyng the file to pc editing and putting it back on dns-323)
    c. edit network interface
    i. on another telnet session do ifconfig and capture name of network interface. In my case egiga0 (first field on Ethernet line)
    ii change "#network_interface=eth0" to "network_interface=egiga0". Note need to uncomment by removing egi
    d. update your media location
    i update "media_dir=/opt" to your correct location
    e. update media server name
    i update "#friendly_name=My DLNA Server". Remember to remove # and use name of your choice
    f. update other required (remember remove #!!!)
    i. change "#db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna" to
"db_dir=/mnt/HD_a2/ffp/var/cache/minidlna"
    ii. change "#log_dir=/var/log" to "log_dir=/mnt/HD_a2/ffp/var/log"
5. Install required libraries. For all the files on "http://numsys.eu/divers/minidlna-cvs-fred-arm-dns-323-compil/with/ do the following (first show as example)
    a. wget http://numsys.eu/divers/minidlna-cvs-fr … 1842-1.tgz
    b. funpkg -i ffmpeg-SVN-r21842-1.tgz
    c. rm ffmpeg-SVN-r21842-1.tgz
6. Start service
    a. Do: sh /ffp/start/minidlna.sh start

Note, for subtitles to work in my case:
1. Video file has to have same filename as subtitle file. for instance abc.avi and abc.srt
2. Video file and subtitle have to be on same subdirectory
3. Filename can not contain space. If it does replace for dots or underscore
4. I found an issue with foldername. I can not say exactly what causes a problem (spaces seem ok). But if you have issues and the foldername with "[", "(", etc try changing it.

On my LG 47LM6400, the subtitles show automatically if they work. If you click on the screen to show the menu, then video playback you can make adjustments to the subtitles position, font, etc

Also, you may want to turn off dlink's upnp server. Login to webinterface, etc.