Frustrated with MediaTomb

[Thomas Milne]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Stephen <stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thomas Milne wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to get MediaTomb working with my PS3. I got it installed
>> fine, and the PS3 has no trouble seeing the server. The problem is
>> getting the MediaTomb UI to see the server so I can add my media.
>> Every time I try to access the Filesystem icon, I get an error about
>>
>> MediaTomb cannot be reached! Please check if the server is still running.
>>
>> I've waded through the FAQ, Google and the like, but I have no idea
>> what the problem is. Currently the server is running on startup, from
>> /etc/init.d. Most of the documentation, for some reason, refers to
>> mediatomb being started as a normal user. Also, the documentation
>> refers to the web UI address being printed in the output when run
>> manually. I don't see this at all. Also, since the PS3 can see the
>> server, my problem is NOT that the server isn't running, right?
>>
>> Before I jump onto their forums, can someone spare me a quick tip? I
>> have a feeling I'm close, missing something minor but critical.
>>
>>
>
> I suggest you stop MT and run from your user terminal. Make sure you get
> something like this:
>
> stephen at roissy:~$ mediatomb
>
> MediaTomb UPnP Server version 0.12.0 - http://mediatomb.cc/
>
> ===============================================================================
> Copyright 2005-2008 Gena Batsyan, Sergey Bostandzhyan, Leonhard Wimmer.
> MediaTomb is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License
> version 2
>
> 2010-03-07 17:58:25    INFO: Loading configuration from:
> /home/stephen/.mediatomb/config.xml
> 2010-03-07 17:58:25    INFO: Checking configuration...
> 2010-03-07 17:58:25    INFO: Setting filesystem import charset to UTF-8
> 2010-03-07 17:58:25    INFO: Setting metadata import charset to UTF-8
> 2010-03-07 17:58:25    INFO: Setting playlist charset to UTF-8
> 2010-03-07 17:58:25    INFO: Configuration check succeeded.
> 2010-03-07 17:58:25    INFO: Initialized port: 49154
> 2010-03-07 17:58:25    INFO: Server bound to: 192.168.0.50
> 2010-03-07 17:58:26    INFO: MediaTomb Web UI can be reached by following
> this link:
> 2010-03-07 17:58:26    INFO: http://192.168.0.50:49154/
> 2010-03-07 17:58:55    INFO: thread cleanup; thread_id=-1235928208
>
> Pay attention the IP address and port. You need to add these in your
> browser.
>
>
> In the config.xml file you should have a line like:
>
>   <home>/home/stephen/.mediatomb</home>
>
> This should allow navigation on the PS3 through your file system making
> adding your media to the database unnecessary.
>
> It took me a while to get everything working, because my music is in .flac
> files and I had to transcode to pcm. But the quality is outstanding and the
> effort was worth it.
>
> Keep me posted.
>

I found that I had better results with just using localhost instead of
my IP. Don't know why but when I went in that way, it worked normally.

Now, this Mediatomb is _crazy_. I must have hit the wrong button,
because when I looked at MT through the PS3, it had added all of the
content from my HD, as well as two connected USB drives. Everything!

LOL, what a mess!

I mv'd the database file and started over, much more sane when you add
one thing at a time.

I'll definitely take your advice and run it as a normal user, though,
it's at least a lot easier to play with the config and so on.

Many thanks!

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