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Recently, I became the proud owner of Onkyo TX-NR515 receiver. This device is DLNA MediaRenderer as upnp-inspector says. The A/V receiver is from the 2012 devices family (TX-NR414/TX-NR515/TX-NR616).

Streaming the sound from PC to my DLNA device over wlan was a tough task, but I managed to solve it the way I’ll describe below. The main idea is to pass the alsa/pulseaudio output stream over LAN to DLNA device. There are 2 ways of doing it: with DLNA server or without.

• Traditional way of streaming audio with DLNA server involved using rygel which has a capability of taking pulseaudio sink (exposed by module-http-protocol-tcp) and stream it to DLNA enabled device: http://chemicaloliver.net/linux/streaming-audio-from-ubuntu-linux-to-a-dlna-player-blu-ray-or-ps3/
• Another way with DLNA server is to save the stream to audio file and then pass it to minidlna:
  http://askubuntu.com/questions/187086/how-do-i-set-up-live-audio-streams-to-a-dlna-compliant-device
• The third way involves buying a Bluetooth UBT-1 dongle from Onkyo. The dongle is plugged to AVR and after pairing with source device becomes available as output device. I didn’t find any positive experience on the net, I also don’t know anything about sound quality of such solution. But 45€ price for the dongle is worth a try. See my experience with UBT-1 here.

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