WD TV Live media player works smooth with the minidlna.Quote:
Originally Posted by pheidrias
Config looks healthy. Mine is almost the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by pheidrias
Have look at $ top. Maybe the minidlna still does his hard indexing work. When scan finished, it consumes a few percent (~2-4%) of CPU resources.
nope - indexing was finished last night ;-)!
And if I don't daemonize it (-d), I would see the messages of the ongoing indexing.
I tried both the daemonized and non-daemonized versions...Code:1014 usernam 18 0 19556 4324 1152 S 0.0 14.9 0:01.16 minidlna
on 1.0.24 you can change the verbosity ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by pheidrias
edit: ok, that -d option changed lately....
I couldn't find any switch to increase the verbosity?
However: I always wondered, why one HAS to specify a config file using -f --> isn't it described as a volunteered argument?
Trying mediatomb now - still no extraction of the metadata....so not usable ;-(.
wtf!
I just tried to access the server from my android phone and it worked EASILY!
So my main problem are the mal-functioning dlna-implementions under Linux?
:eek: :(
Thank you all for your help...I'm stuck here...
Hello guys,
I still stick with my good old WL500W, and am still very much satisfied with it.
But after my Twonky media server license expired, I had to find an alternative to stream my videos to my beamer.
So I gave mediatomb a try, and ended up installing the static optware version from http://mediatomb.cc/pages/download#optware.
After the fiddling with sqlite and such it seemed to work. But wait, it does only display my audio files in the tree I gave the ui to search for media.
There it also only displays an Audio subfolder in "Database", no Video listing at all.
Files I wished it would find are regular avi and such. Nothing special.
What the heck - tried googling, but nobody ever seems to have had this problem. Cannot find anything unusual also in the default config.xml that would make it exclude something.
Any ideas someone?
Cheers,
Nix
When I used the wl-500gP with mediatomb in the back-days, I wasn't satisfied at all. The indexing of video worked, but i took ages. You may run mediatomb with -D and -l {logfile} options while doing a rescan so we're may be able to understand whats wrong there.
I suggest using minidlna there is no hazzle when importing video. You loose transcoding-ability but in my eyes this is useless on a soho-router anyway.
Thank you very much for your suggestions, !gm
I did include the -l option in the startup script and afterwards rescanned the db.
Here is the output
Attachment 9386
Sorry for the compression - it did'nt let me upload the plain text log.
On my first look it seems to be a problem with the character encoding.
But have a look if you don't mind.
Cheers,
Nix
Quote:
Originally Posted by !gm
Hello,
here are some lines from the config.xml, showing that utf-8 should be loaded.
But in the log it says the following:Code:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
...
<scripting script-charset="UTF-8">
Seems it is the crooked charset problem once again... DohhhCode:2012-12-20 18:23:47 INFO: Checking configuration...
2012-12-20 18:23:47 INFO: Setting filesystem import charset to ASCII
2012-12-20 18:23:47 INFO: Setting metadata import charset to ASCII
2012-12-20 18:23:47 INFO: Setting playlist charset to ASCII
2012-12-20 18:23:47 INFO: Configuration check succeeded.
The Environment Variable LANG is not set in the basic shell of the box. Would have no idea how to set it permanently, if it helps at all...
Tried to set the encoding with "export LANG=en_UK.UTF-8" at the top of the startup script - no success.
Still importing in stupid ASCII.
Cheers
no problemQuote:
Originally Posted by Nixblicker
what about
Code:<filesystem-charset>ISO-8859-1</filesystem-charset>
<metadata-charset>ISO-8859-1</metadata-charset>
... if you haven't googled this by yourself ;)
Ähem,
no I haven't ;).
I'll try that - but as the system is capable of utf I thought i should stick to it in MT.
Do you think its not properly built in the static version?
Well, whatever - will report back when I tried it.
UPDATE:
Inserted the above option in config.xml, but still no luck. The log still tells me files are imported in ASCII.
Is it possibly hardcoded?
Thx again for the tip,
Nix
The documentation of the above config options states
So if i read it correct, this setting is something like a fallback value, if no charset is detected by the ominous nl_langinfo() function.Quote:
Optional
Default: if nl_langinfo() function is present, this setting will be auto detected based on your system locale, else set to ISO-8859-1
Defines the charset of the filesystem. For example, if you have file names in Cyrillic KOI8-R encoding, then you should specify that here. The server uses UTF-8 internally, this import parameter will help you to correctly import your data.
Do you by any chance know what this function is and if it is present?
Cheers,
Nix
ahhhhh me is stupid.... :D
set it to UTF-8
as that function seems not to work...Code:<filesystem-charset>UTF-8</filesystem-charset>
<metadata-charset>UTF-8</metadata-charset>
Well, that change of the option also doesn't.
Still importing in ASCII so it seems. At least the log claims to do so.
But actually this doesn't seem to be the base of the problem. Even if a just select a subfolder guaranteed not to have charset encoding problems, there is no video file added to the database. No Video subfolder created in the ui etc.
Darn, I'm out of ideas here.
Probably I should give minidlna a try.
Thx anyway !gm!