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.

I get this:

joehill at node1:~$ mediatomb
mediatomb: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavformat.so.52: no version
information available (required by /usr/lib/libffmpegthumbnailer.so.3)
mediatomb: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavcodec.so.52: no version information
available (required by /usr/lib/libffmpegthumbnailer.so.3)

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 20:36:10    INFO: Loading configuration from:
/home/joehill/.mediatomb/config.xml
2010-03-07 20:36:10    INFO: Checking configuration...
2010-03-07 20:36:10    INFO: Setting filesystem import charset to UTF-8
2010-03-07 20:36:10    INFO: Setting metadata import charset to UTF-8
2010-03-07 20:36:10    INFO: Setting playlist charset to UTF-8
2010-03-07 20:36:10    INFO: Configuration check succeeded.
2010-03-07 20:36:11   ERROR: Error while accessing sqlite database
file (/var/lib/mediatomb/mediatomb.db): Permission denied

>
> In the config.xml file you should have a line like:

Ah, okay, that's why, it works now :-)

>   <home>/home/stephen/.mediatomb</home>
>
> This should allow navigation on the PS3 through your file system making
> adding your media to the database unnecessary.

Well, it shows me only 'PC Directory', and no titles. That's okay,
because I'm not sure if I'd want it showing the contents of my home
dir on the PS3 :-\

I would _love_ it if there was some way to show the directory
structure of my media drive, but it only seems to show one level up or
down, so it's kind of a mess, especially if there is a duplicate, ie.

if i have /shows/30_rock/season_1

and /shows/american_dad/season_1

I only see one of them.

> 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.
>

Still hackin' away...

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