[HowTo] Setup MediaTomb (mediaserver) on WL-500gP and WL-500W

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For all the very newbie like i'm...could someone join all these informations in a final step-by-step procedure to follow for a correct installation??? very thank's to all of you

[NakedFaerie]

Can I get a howto for installing this as I cant work it out.

I have a WL-500G.
I have Mediatomb that I can run via telnet from a HDD.
I want mediatomb to automatically turn on after a reboot.
I want it to be installed to the router not the HDD.

How do I do this?

Where is the "post boot" file and how do I edit it?

I'm not having much luck. I dont know the linux commands so I'm a complete noob at this.

I'm all new to linux and telnet so the most noob way would be good.

I'm using Windows 7.

I need to know what programs do I need to do do it.
How do I install it on the router? So far I can read the dirs but everything is read only so I cant copy anything. I'm not even sure I'm using the right commands.

I did today get SSH installed but its still mainly read only.
Also, how do I install files? I've read about these ipkg files but I cant get them to install even copying what it says to type.

[pheidrias]

I installed Mediatomb as ingnatz suggested (thank you very much for this!!!). Mediatomb is running fine except of one thing that I want to solve:

All my added music is listed as "unknown" - i.e. all songs are shown as Artist - Unknown, Album - Unknown etc. Any ideas why this happens? ID3 tags should be fine (iTunes, my iPod and also my Nokia 5800XM all have no problems recognizing the tags).

Same here!
Any ideas on this?

Installation went well as posted by ignatz in post #21.

Thanks

[ryzhov_al]

I installed Mediatomb as ingnatz suggested (thank you very much for this!!!). Mediatomb is running fine except of one thing that I want to solve:

All my added music is listed as "unknown" - i.e. all songs are shown as Artist - Unknown, Album - Unknown etc. Any ideas why this happens? ID3 tags should be fine (iTunes, my iPod and also my Nokia 5800XM all have no problems recognizing the tags).

I'm afraid Mediatomb was compiled without ID3 tag support. Here is technical details.

[pheidrias]

Thanks for the reply. So I should compile it myself?

What are the alternatives? I'm still confused with the media players on the asus.

I'd like to use my usb-disk for audio-storage and access my media from the internet --> preferably using a standard media player comfort as like the files where on my harddisk (banshee or rhythmbox for ubuntu, e.g. - dealing with tags etc.)...any chance?

[ryzhov_al]

Thanks for the reply. So I should compile it myself?

What are the alternatives? I'm still confused with the media players on the asus.

You may try mediatomb or minidlna from OpenWRT repo. Both can read various movie/photo/music tags.

I'm not using mediatomb, but minidlna categorizes my music by tags, extracts album covers, photos arranged by shot dates and used cameras.

First run takes about 40 minutes to scan my library:

$ du -s -h /tmp/store/*
50.9G   /tmp/store/Music
46.8G   /tmp/store/Photo
80.9G   /tmp/store/Video

$ cat /opt/var/log/minidlna.log | grep files
[2011/12/09 22:23:22] scanner.c:797: warn: Scanning /tmp/store/Video finished (532 files)!
[2011/12/09 22:29:25] scanner.c:797: warn: Scanning /tmp/store/Music finished (5367 files)!
[2011/12/09 22:41:44] scanner.c:797: warn: Scanning /tmp/store/Photo finished (20436 files)!

After then, second and others runs takes just a second.

[pheidrias]

Hi ryzhov_al!

Finally succeeded with the install of opkg. Although things don't work as expected, I hope to find out how to deal with them.

About minidlna: I can start the service

minidlna -d -f /opt/etc/minidlna.conf

and add the files, but cannont connect to the server using my clients (tried banshee, rhythmbox, clementine on ubuntu)...
Sometimes I see in the debug output the "404 Not Found" or simply can't find the server. Any idea what's wrong?

My config is:

# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
port=8200

# network interfaces to serve, comma delimited
network_interface=br0

# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you
#   can prepend the type, followed by a comma, to the directory:
#   + "A" for audio  (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
#   + "V" for video  (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
#   + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
media_dir=A,/tmp/harddisk/Musik

# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
friendly_name=My DLNA Server

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache
db_dir=/tmp/harddisk/dlna/cache/minidlna

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file
log_dir=/tmp/harddisk/dlna/var/log

# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/")
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg

# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files
# note: the default is yes
inotify=yes

# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no

# set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards.
# * This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images,
#   which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products.
strict_dlna=no

# default presentation url is http address on port 80
#presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php

# notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds.
notify_interval=900

# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
serial=12345678
model_number=1

# specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket
#minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock

# use different container as root of the tree
# possible values:
#   + "." - use standard container (this is the default)
#   + "B" - "Browse Directory"
#   + "M" - "Music"
#   + "V" - "Video"
#   + "P" - "Pictures"
# if you specify "B" and client device is audio-only then "Music/Folders" will be used as root
#root_container=.

Thanks for attention!

[!gm]

check the log

/tmp/harddisk/dlna/var/log/minidlna.log

just as notice -d option means debug - not demonize

here its working well with windows mediaplayer and a samsung tv

you know, that a scan of your directory can last hours

[ryzhov_al]

Any idea what's wrong?

My config is:

...
media_dir=A,/tmp/harddisk/Musik
db_dir=/tmp/harddisk/dlna/cache/minidlna
log_dir=/tmp/harddisk/dlna/var/log

Please, make sure that all those paths exists and minidlna is present in a process list.

[pheidrias]

I checked all directories and the log is only reporting:

[2012/02/28 19:59:56] minidlna.c:900: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1.0.22 [SQLite 3.7.9].
[2012/02/28 19:59:56] minidlna.c:992: warn: HTTP listening on port 8200

minidlna is in the process list.

Any suggestion for a DLNA-Client running on linux? You said you were tagging your files, ryzhov_al - is this your TV or the windows media player (have no windows here)?

Do I miss something else? Firewall settings or something else?
The "UPnP-Inspector" on my laptop at least sees the media server.

,
pheidrias

[ryzhov_al]

You said you were tagging your files, ryzhov_al - is this your TV or the windows media player (have no windows here)?

WD TV Live media player works smooth with the minidlna.

Do I miss something else?

Config looks healthy. Mine is almost the same.
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.

[pheidrias]

nope - indexing was finished last night ;-)!

And if I don't daemonize it (-d), I would see the messages of the ongoing indexing.

1014 usernam  18   0 19556 4324 1152 S  0.0 14.9   0:01.16 minidlna

I tried both the daemonized and non-daemonized versions...

[!gm]

I checked all directories and the log is only reporting:

[2012/02/28 19:59:56] minidlna.c:900: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1.0.22 [SQLite 3.7.9].
[2012/02/28 19:59:56] minidlna.c:992: warn: HTTP listening on port 8200

on 1.0.24 you can change the verbosity

edit: ok, that -d option changed lately....

[pheidrias]

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 ;-(.

[pheidrias]

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?


Thank you all for your help...I'm stuck here...