scotus africanus
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 Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:16 pm Post subject: JRiver Media Center...finally got it working |
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I've been trying to get JRiver Media Center working on gentoo for years, kept switching to debian based distros but Gentoo is home; today i gave it another try and voila it worked. I thought I should share in case someone had a similar problem. I personally think JRMC is the best out there, streaming music to any device with a blinking light and a speaker is trivial, my AV receiver, all my phones,X-boxes see immediately. I have tried many plex, vlc all rather painful.
Disclaimer :
1. this works for me, hope it works for you. If it doesn't I feel bad, good luck.
2. there's probably a better way to do this, I'm sure
3. i don't know how safe or secure this is. uPnP scares me. a lot.
4. my system didnt break. please dont break yours.
I did the following :
1. On the host system :
- install xhost
-allow local users to connect to X server without authentication (very unsafe...)
-revoke it with
2. Set up a chroot environment
-I keep several chroots where i do updates before switching over, I cloned one
-the Gentoo Chroot Guide https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Chroot and Steam setup guide https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam#32-bit_chroot_on_amd64 guide are veryhelpful in setting up a chroot environment
3.Update your chroot
-i have a full kde environment
-PulseAudio server and Alsa server
-create a normal user
4. Download the .deb file
from here https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,125610.0.html
I used the amd64 link https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v26/latest/MediaCenter-26.0.87-amd64.deb
I used my Download folder, because a user was already setup
| Code: | cd ~/Downloads
wget https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/channels/v26/latest/MediaCenter-26.0.87-amd64.deb |
5. Open the archive
| Code: | | ar -x MediaCenter-26.0.87-amd64.deb |
6. Unpack the archives "control.tar.gz" and "data.tar.xz"
| Code: | cd /
tar -xvjf ~/Downloads/control.tar.gz
tar -xvjf ~/Downloads/data.tar.xz |
7. Almost there. Login as a normal user.
8. Set your default display with
| Code: | | export DISPLAY=:0.0 |
9. To open mediacenter on the command line
There you go; its dirty and ugly but its a start.
-i am sure you can slim down the chroot environment to a much smaller footprint
-its not too difficult to automate with a init script
-i was able to access the server with Gizmo on android immediately
-couldnt get bluetooth sound working, but builtin ports worked fine
-Last time i tried it on a live system it clobbered all kinds of important binaries, had to reinstall. The chroot feels safer
-the commandline is quite chatty, useful to see error messages in the console as it runs
Hope it helps
ndlmzbk
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