Is anyone running mediatomb under CentOS-6? I've installed it from rpmforge.repo (I think it used to be in the epel repository under CentOS-5) but I don't know how to configure it.
I'm trying to use it to see photos on my Samsung Smart TV (model D5520). The photos (or some of them) come up on the TV, but when I click on them I always get the error message "Not Supported File Format".
Are there reasonably simple instructions anywhere for using mediatomb under CentOS?
On 01/16/2012 08:54 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Is anyone running mediatomb under CentOS-6? I've installed it from rpmforge.repo (I think it used to be in the epel repository under CentOS-5) but I don't know how to configure it.
I'm trying to use it to see photos on my Samsung Smart TV (model D5520). The photos (or some of them) come up on the TV, but when I click on them I always get the error message "Not Supported File Format".
Are there reasonably simple instructions anywhere for using mediatomb under CentOS?
Try:
http://mediatomb.cc/pages/documentation
Mark LaPierre wrote:
Are there reasonably simple instructions anywhere for using mediatomb under CentOS?
Try:
Thanks for your response.
I had in fact read the article I get at that URL, but it left me very little wiser.
It lists a billion options that one can give, but as far as I can see there are no instructions anywhere about how to run the program.
For example, I want to access a directory /Photos/ on my TV, but I've no idea how to add this to the sqlite database, if indeed one has to do this. I can access the local web-page at 192.168.2.2:50500 but this does not help me.
Are you actually running mediatomb under CentOS?
From: Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net
Are there reasonably simple instructions anywhere for using mediatomb under CentOS?
For example, I want to access a directory /Photos/ on my TV, but I've no idea how to add this to the sqlite database,
If it is only about using the software, there should be nothing specific to CentOS... For your directory issue, section 5.11 from the documentation page linked above seems pertinent.
JD
John Doe wrote:
For example, I want to access a directory /Photos/ on my TV, but I've no idea how to add this to the sqlite database,
If it is only about using the software, there should be nothing specific to CentOS...
Except that I had to enable the rpmforge repository to get mediatomb under CentOS-6. (I think it used to be available under CentOS-5 in the epel repo?)
Then with rpmforge enabled "yum update" had problems, so I had to disable it (having installed mediatomb).
For your directory issue, section 5.11 from the documentation page linked above seems pertinent.
Thanks, I was trying to add a directory using the web interface, but I will try this CLI method.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
For example, I want to access a directory /Photos/ on my TV, but I've no idea how to add this to the sqlite database, if indeed one has to do this. I can access the local web-page at 192.168.2.2:50500 but this does not help me.
Are you actually running mediatomb under CentOS?
If you can't get mediatomb to work or just want to try some alternatives, there is ps3mediaserver (which will work with some but not all other devices): https://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/downloads/list and serviio: (exceptionally good for Sony blu-ray players, but also works with others) http://www.serviio.org/download with slightly different feature sets. I've only used the mac versions but they are both mostly java with local libs for transcoding so linux should be very similar. They both present a web service for configuration and adding media locations. I haven't looked at mediatomb for a while - mostly because the last time I did, the others had more features.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Is anyone running mediatomb under CentOS-6? I've installed it from rpmforge.repo (I think it used to be in the epel repository under CentOS-5) but I don't know how to configure it.
I'm trying to use it to see photos on my Samsung Smart TV (model D5520).
Unsure if it helps with photo issue but for Samsung TV to work this is what I needed to add to my mediatomb configuration: <custom-http-headers> <!-- Samsung needs it --> <add header="transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming"/> <add header="contentFeatures.dlna.org: DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=0;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=01500000000000000000000000000000"/> </custom-http-headers>
http://shishworks.blogspot.com/2012/01/mediatomb-and-samsung-tv.html
Let me know if it helps.
-- Mikael
Mikael Fridh wrote:
I'm trying to use it to see photos on my Samsung Smart TV (model D5520).
Unsure if it helps with photo issue but for Samsung TV to work this is what I needed to add to my mediatomb configuration:
<custom-http-headers> <!-- Samsung needs it --> <add header="transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming"/> <add header="contentFeatures.dlna.org:
DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=0;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=01500000000000000000000000000000"/>
</custom-http-headers>http://shishworks.blogspot.com/2012/01/mediatomb-and-samsung-tv.html
Let me know if it helps.
Thanks. I'll try that later. I'm presently installing mediatomb on another machine, as I've been having other problems (almost certainly unrelated) on my server.
Incidentally, one difficulty I find with "Smart" TVs is that even with Samsung different models seems to have different software - apart from the obvious 3D or not 3D - and it seems very difficult to find eg whether one can browse on a particular TV.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Incidentally, one difficulty I find with "Smart" TVs is that even with Samsung different models seems to have different software - apart from the obvious 3D or not 3D - and it seems very difficult to find eg whether one can browse on a particular TV.
That's true for DLNA in general whether it is on TVs or other media players because most functions and codecs are optional. The server has to know the device capabilities and often transcode things to match.
On 01/18/12 5:33 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
That's true for DLNA in general whether it is on TVs or other media players because most functions and codecs are optional. The server has to know the device capabilities and often transcode things to match.
DLNA is a big mess. works OK for audio, stinks for video. The better set top boxes can play video files off SMB/CIFS and that works much better., assuming your video files are encoded in a format that the box supports (and most such boxes support a wide range of common video formats including MKV, M4V/MP4, etc)
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:24 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 01/18/12 5:33 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
That's true for DLNA in general whether it is on TVs or other media players because most functions and codecs are optional. The server has to know the device capabilities and often transcode things to match.
DLNA is a big mess. works OK for audio, stinks for video. The better set top boxes can play video files off SMB/CIFS and that works much better., assuming your video files are encoded in a format that the box supports (and most such boxes support a wide range of common video formats including MKV, M4V/MP4, etc)
You can't really say it doesn't work for video - just that it doesn't have to support any specific formats. As long as your content matches what your player handles, or your server recognizes the player and can transcode accordingly, it works fine. It is 'just' streaming, though. I don't think it has a concept that matches dvd menus or chapters that may work with players that do file mapping and can see iso or video_ts rips on the server.
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