Wanted: DLNA Media Server

BigBaaadBob · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject: Wanted: DLNA Media Server

Is there a FOSS DLNA media server? I've looked on sourceforge, done google searches, etc... Haven't really found anything.

madisonicus · Veteran Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 1130

Since the DLNA and DRM are intimately related I doubt you'll ever see a FOSS version of it or any FOSS interoperability with that project:

BigBaaadBob · Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:39 am Post subject:

apyh · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 70 Location: Texas

https://coherence.beebits.net/

rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

Coherence looks like the way to go for us PS3 owners w/ the new 1.8 firmware. Time for an ebuild perhaps?

EDIT

Strike that, here are some gentoo-friendly install steps... maybe an ebuild later:

coherence · n00b Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 3

Hi,

I'm Frank, the developer of Coherence and found about this thread in our webservers log. :-)

rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

Frank, thanks for the info. Good to know you guys are working on PS3 support.

I just sent the following email to John and Tim - I wonder if you could give an opinion:

coherence · n00b Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 3

rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

Cool thanks, I think that's what I needed. 275, 276, 277 then. I realize the PS3 is going to need more than generic UPnP, but I'll wiki up the PPC patch anyway.

EDIT

Well, I got coherence to start, but I cannot get the web interface to display devices - it always throws an error when iterating through the device list?

rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

gmediaserver seems to be audio only. In any event, the PS3 sees it, but cannot browse it, complaining of the same "connection" error described with ushare in 360 mode.

So ushare seems 'closest' to actually working, as in basic mode the PS3 can browse, but fails to connect and play once a piece of media is selected.

azote · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 415

Video and photo play via UPnP works on the PS3 via uShare

http://subvida.com/browse-and-play-videosmusic-with-ps3-via-network-upnp-to-your-linux-box/24/05/2007/

but no mp3 play yet
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rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

Agreed - more experimentation indicates the PS3 recognizes and plays MPG videos using mpeg2/mp3. AVI container doesn't seem to be recognized at all. DivX & XviD are right out. AC3 audio seems to be a wash too.

rburcham · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 243

Mediatomb is the way to go - least headache, most value & features w/ version 0.9.1

http://mediatomb.cc/

coherence · n00b Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 3

Hi,

Kein · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 13 Location: Ithaca, NY

I just got a linux DLNA server to hook up to my PS3 last night, and here are my suggestions.

I used uShare, it works for me without any configuration and seams to be fast and reliable. Only thing I had to do was pass in my net interface (i use eth1 not eth0) and the content directory.

My guess is most people who have problems are having problems with the media format, not the actual dlna server. Although the PS3 website lists a couple formats that it 'supports' it either doesn't support them well, or transcode/mencode/linux don't write the formats out exact enough for the PS3 to understand. Most of mp3s were in the correct enough format for it to work, so I havn't played with transcoding those yet, but here's how I did video.

I used avidemux for encoding because it seems to be the least hassle, and it was easy to correctly specify the container format. It uses some non-security tested libraries, which is unfortunate, but I havn't had a problem with it yet.
1) Open up your file that you want to transcode
2) Set the video codec to SVCD (lavc)
3) Remember to go into the 'configure' menu below the codec selection one. For some reason avidemux doesn't check aspect ratios of the files and you have to set it manually. If it's a weird aspect ration go into the filters menu and remember to add black borders so that it comes out to 4:3 or 16:9
4) Set the audio codec to FFm MP2
5) Set the format to MPEG PS A+V
6) Click on save, chose a location, and let it do it's thing!

The files that come out of this are a bit larger than they would be with a divx/xvid coding by something like 1/7th. works out to be 400ish megs on a 350 original. However, they play perfectly on the PS3 which is really what matters. Unfortunately I think you loose all special audio encoding (dobly digital/pro logic/etc) I'm still playing around creating H264/MP4 files, but havn't succeded with anything other than getting my PS3 to crash when trying to play a file.

Let me know if this helps you, or if you cou ld use a bit more help!
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optik_knight · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: uShare ebuild?

I'm looking at uShare at the moment. I was wondering if anyone had prepped an ebuild and/or init scripts for it, since these would be quite nice to have for widespread use of this product among Gentoo users.

I've never built an ebuild myself, so I'm not quite sure what all it requires. I'll start writing init scripts as soon as I have it fully installed, and I'll share them when they're functional.

optik_knight · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject: Init scripts, etc

For what it's worth:

http://www.nas-central.org/index.php?title=Ushare_-_UPnP_Media_Server_for_Linux

Lists an example configuration file and init script

EDIT: Call me unattentive. Apparently during build it produces its own initscript (which i haven't gotten working yet) and a config file with no values inserted... Even so, it might be nice to have some gentoo-specific stuff, for convenience and nice integration.

darkphader · Veteran Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 1217 Location: Motown

mediatomb svn is working good here for the PS3
uses any app you want to do transcoding (i'm currently using ffmpeg)

http://www.deadlock.dhs.org/jin/mt-tr-howto.txt
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robostac · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 34

SDNick484 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 231

I spent the better part of yesterday evening getting fuppes to play well with my Xbox. I also tried Coherence, ushare, and x360mediaserve. I believe fuppes also supports the PS3; their forums on sourceforge are quite active (I posted a question at 11:3PM PST and someone had answered it by midnight). I built fuppes from SVN, but I read in the forums there's an ebuild for it.

Coherence seems like it has a lot of potential; I built it through a combination of easy_install and yum (this is on a Fedora Core 7 machine). I couldn't get it (or ushare) to categorize my music by Album or Artist (it just grouped them as all songs), hence my move to fuppes. I believe the issue was taglib not being detected properly; whatever the case I now have fuppes working with both music and videos (no transcoding needed, plays Xvid straight up).

When building ushare, I found this DLNA library: http://libdlna.geexbox.org/

Pragmataraxia · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 2

For those looking for a DLNA server for a PS3, I've created an ebuild for fuppes here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=143430&action=view

The ebuild includes an init script, and a configuration file pre-set to transcode for the PS3 on the fly. In fact, if your media is in /media and the interface you want to share on is eth0, all you need to do is:
# emerge fuppes
# /etc/init.d/fuppes start

jurrie · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the ebuild, it is working perfectly. I was just about to try out fuppes and it really came in handy :-)

miataninja · n00b Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 4

k9dog · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:37 pm Post subject:

You can use the PS3 media server too, but it works best with supplied tools. Put them in an alternative directory and tell PMS to use those instead. Used them for a while, but I think I'll go for a more open source solution next time. Worked with other clients/renders too. Had it working with samsung TV too, but next time I'll find a better solution. These days the PS3 gfx chip seems dead. I will make previous NAS machine a head on tv screen (it is hdmi provided and already running gentoo.. my old laptop use Gentoo too as the Go7400 card couldn't run well on even Windows 7 and Legacy driver stopped being updated for windows 7, but was on Linux). On Gentoo, I can play games and run VLC Considering killing my last Windows which I used for mostly for WoW

Old Laptop is too slow for this, but I think new one will fly on Wine.

Tony0945 · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:59 pm Post subject:

Are you looking for a device or DLNA software?

Right in the portage tree: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qe5Fxuq2LWMJ:https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/minidlna+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

You can view the output with VLC on Amazon firestick. Also ROKU but Roku won't display MPEG like firestick. I think mp4 works.