Frustrated with MediaTomb

Mon Mar 8 04:09:27 UTC 2010

Now. what is your system like, though? I'm on an ancient and crappy P4 2.6 :-\

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Yup. I use it all the time on my system. Its great. MKV x264 all xvid/divx
>
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Thomas Milne
> <tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Thanks, I might give that a shot. The thing I see on their page that
>> just blows my mind is 'Real-time video transcoding of MKV/FLV/OGM/AVI,
>> etc.' I can't believe my computer could do that, but I'd be curious to
>> see it try ;)
>>
>> Does that mean that the PS3, instead of showing 'unsupported', would
>> actually show it as playable?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> Just thought to let you know, I also use ps3 media server and it works
>>> perfectly for me and is very easy to use.
>>>
>>> I love it, you may wanna try it out.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Rafael Carneiro
>>> <rafael.carneiro-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> I've been using ps3mediaserver for a while and highly recommend it:
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/
>>>>
>>>> I tried many others before I found it to be just what I needed.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Rafael
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Thomas Milne
>>>> <tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>> 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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