Frustrated with MediaTomb

Mon Mar 8 15:12:22 UTC 2010

Thomas,

Ya my Desktop system is a beast its a Quad Core Intel DUo Q6600 and I'
ve got overclocked to 2.7..

So I'm not sure how resource hungry it is being that its a Java App.

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Thomas Milne
<tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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