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

  1. #31

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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

  2. #32

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    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.
    Last edited by NakedFaerie; 31-05-2010 at 13:05.

  3. #33
    Quote Originally Posted by fox1234 View Post
    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

  4. #34
    Quote Originally Posted by fox1234 View Post
    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.

  5. #35


    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?

  6. #36
    Quote Originally Posted by pheidrias View Post
    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:
    Code:
    $ 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.

  7. #37
    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:
    Code:
    # 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!

  8. #38
    check the log

    Code:
    /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
    RT-N66U TomatoUSB 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-135 K26AC USB AIO-64K running Entware-NG
    pyload 0.4.9
    minidlna 1.1.2
    samba 3.6.5
    openvpn 2.3.10
    ̶W̶L̶5̶0̶0̶g̶P̶ ̶1̶.̶9̶.̶2̶.̶7̶-̶r̶t̶n̶-̶r̶4̶7̶5̶0 retired

  9. #39
    Quote Originally Posted by pheidrias View Post
    Any idea what's wrong?

    My config is:
    Code:
    ...
    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.

  10. #40
    I checked all directories and the log is only reporting:
    Code:
    [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

  11. #41
    Quote Originally Posted by pheidrias View Post
    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.
    Quote Originally Posted by pheidrias View Post
    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.
    Last edited by ryzhov_al; 28-02-2012 at 20:13.

  12. #42
    nope - indexing was finished last night ;-)!

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

  13. #43
    Quote Originally Posted by pheidrias View Post
    I checked all directories and the log is only reporting:
    Code:
    [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....
    Last edited by !gm; 28-02-2012 at 21:45.
    RT-N66U TomatoUSB 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-135 K26AC USB AIO-64K running Entware-NG
    pyload 0.4.9
    minidlna 1.1.2
    samba 3.6.5
    openvpn 2.3.10
    ̶W̶L̶5̶0̶0̶g̶P̶ ̶1̶.̶9̶.̶2̶.̶7̶-̶r̶t̶n̶-̶r̶4̶7̶5̶0 retired

  14. #44
    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 ;-(.
    Last edited by pheidrias; 28-02-2012 at 22:06. Reason: installed sqlite3-cli

  15. #45
    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...

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