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Mediatomb 0.12 - Streaming audio and video around the house

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Originally posted by Adam C on 2009-02-08 00:32

Martin, I'd be interested to hear what your settings are for ps3 mp4 files. The preset one with my handbrake doesn't seem compatible with the ps3. Not sure why.

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Originally posted by Martin Wimpress on 2009-02-10 16:51

OK, no problem. I will post my Handbrake settings later.

However, this may be helpful to you. I previously used Handbrake 0.92 (which was CLI only) and it had a bug where some PAL DVDs ripped to MP4 using the PS3 preset would not playback the video, you only heard the audio with a black screen. I believe this was is a mod16 issue, but the posts from developers in the Handbrake forums refute this. What compatibility problems do you have exactly?

In any case, I have had no such problem using Handbrake 0.93 via the new GUI. The PS3 preset that comes with Handbrake does work, I just wanted to tweak the quality options slightly in my custom PS3 preset.

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Originally posted by Andy on 2009-03-16 18:05

Hi Martin - thanks for the excellent tutorial on installing Mediatomb 0.12. It was working great for me until just recently. I think some updates have slipped in to my Ubuntu 8.04 and now Mediatomb cannot find the library libavformat.so.52 and fails to start.

Any tips on how to get this library back? Looking in my package mgr and the closest I can find is /usr/lib/libavformat.so.1d. Sorry to bug you but I'm having a hard time trying to find where it's gone! :)

Thanks again for the great wiki.

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Originally posted by Sameer on 2009-03-31 12:15

I would be very interested in your imdb script. We currently store our movies (about 1500 of them now) in individual subdirectories.

We have been trying to decide whether to create a whole new directory tree of symlinks with the info from imdb or just modify the import.js file to create it virtually. Since we have people using old xbox's with xbmc to connect over smb as well as people with ps3's using mediatomb, the symlink tree is our preferred solution.

What is your script for grabbing the info from imdb?

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Originally posted by Martin Wimpress on 2009-04-15 21:23

@andy: Sorry to hear you are having problems. My only suggestion is to add the Medibuntu repository to your Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 system and the re-install ffmpeg. Medibuntu has an unstripped version of ffmpeg in their repository for Hardy and this may clear up your problem.

@sameer: I'll be posting more details about my IMDB script in the next few days :-)

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Originally posted by sdub on 2009-04-19 09:09

You're notes on how to install MediaTomb 0.12.0 have been a huge help... thought I'd point out a few issues I ran into, as of 4/18/2009 on an Ubuntu Hardy server:

1. ffmpeg SVN doesn't take the following configure options anymore: "--enable-swscale" and "--enable-xvmc". swscale is now enabled by default, don't know about xvmc.

2. ffmpegthumbnailer-1.4.0 doesn't work with the latest ffmpeg SVN. I had to build the ffmpegthumbnailer SVN (https://code.google.com/p/ff...)

3. ffmpegthumbnailer required installation of libjpeg62-dev, which I didn't have.

4. New version of lastfmlib (0.2.0) was available, so I used that instead

5. lastfmlib required installation of libcurl4-openssl-dev. Your instructions install this lib in the following step.

MediaTomb is now compiling, so I imagine the rest of the configuration should be straight forward. Thanks for your help!

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Originally posted by Martin Wimpress on 2009-04-22 13:20

@sdub: Thanks very much for the update. I haven't recompiled Mediatomb since I wrote the article but when I next upgrade I will incorporate your amendments.

@adam C: I have finally got round to documenting my Handbrake presets for the PS3. You can find details on my DVD Ripping wiki page.

https://wiki.wimpress.com/DVD...

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Originally posted by Cem on 2009-05-01 01:29

Hello,

thx for your howto looks great.
I am encountering some problems. Tried to install on Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop x64. ffmpeg failed to install.
So I completely reinstalled. This time Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop x64.
However I ran into the same problem. Tried various things with any help.
I followed exactly your howto, also tried others (always with a fresh install to be sure)
ffmpeg quits while compiling with this error. configure runs fine. I didn't had any errors before.
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld gab 1 als Ende-Status zurück
make: *** [libavcodec/libavcodec.so.52] Fehler 1

Trying installing it since 2 days. 30.04.09
Also tried to install libavcodec and the dev. WIthout any positive results.
Is this an issue of an svn source? Problems with the AMD64 architecture? Do you run AMD64?
Maybe you have a solution or a hint for me....
thx in advance.
greets

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Originally posted by Cem on 2009-05-01 04:53

Hello again,
I removed the --enable-libnut option for configure in ffmpeg. make & install run fine for ffmpeg. ffmpeg -formats show a lot of codecs.
what does libnut exactly do?
for running autogen.sh in ffmpegthumbnailer I needed automake and libtool.
installed with mysql support. apt-get install mysqlclient mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev
also enabled podcast and weborama. dont know what it is but enabled it anyway.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-weborama --enable-sopcast --enable-mysql
installed medtiaomb with checksinstall -y
configured config as described. encountering problems when adding mkv files to DB. mediatomb crashes with segmentation fault.
need to test more though. divx/m2ts seem to work.

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Originally posted by Martin Wimpress on 2009-05-01 12:11

@cem: libnut is another container format for audio and video files, I haven't seen it used widely myself so probably no great loss :-) Thanks for the tips about enabling MySQL and other features.

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Originally posted by Cem on 2009-05-05 01:12

Hello again,
I had an issue with mkv Files. Revision 2018 of mediatomb.
I wasn't able importing mkv Files into database. Mediatomb crashed. I now compiled mediatomb without taglib "--disable-taglib".
After doing so I can insert mkv Files into Database without any problems. Haven't checked so far if the problem is caused from mediatomb or taglib.
Found this in the help section of the mediatomb HP. Someone else had a similar problem.

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Originally posted by Jeroen on 2009-10-06 10:52

Hey Martin,

thanks for the wonderfull blogs. It helped me getting everything up the right way. Now the only problem is I get some stutter in my MKV playback. I have everything wired by LAN, the regular avi's stream just fine, but the transcoding MKV's are really hard to deal with for the PS3.. I was curious what kind of hardware you guys here are using for this job. I have an older 2,3Ghz Celeron with 512MB memory.

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Originally posted by Martin Wimpress on 2009-10-17 16:49

I have a big workstation ;-)

https://wiki.wimpress.com/Del...

But I am running my Mediatomb server in a VirtualBox virtual server which is allocated a single CPU core from the host and 1GB of RAM.

That said, I don't not transcode MKV on the fly. I have created two scripts to convert MKV (with little or no re-encoding) to MPEG-4 or M2TS which the PS3 can stream without transcoding.

I recommend the M2TS conversion script.

https://code.wimpress.com/MKV...
https://code.wimpress.com/MKV...

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Originally posted by Tom on 2010-04-26 04:32

Hi Martin

When trying to apply the lasftfm-patch, I get the following failed hunks:
patching file src/config_manager.cc
Hunk #1 FAILED at 628.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 2216 (offset 209 lines).
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/config_manager.cc.rej
patching file src/server.cc
Hunk #1 succeeded at 41 with fuzz 1 (offset 4 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 112 with fuzz 2 (offset 8 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 350 (offset 8 lines).
patching file src/lastfm.h
patching file src/common.h
Hunk #1 succeeded at 375 with fuzz 2 (offset 23 lines).
patching file src/config_manager.h
Hunk #1 succeeded at 195 (offset 8 lines).
patching file src/file_request_handler.cc
Hunk #2 succeeded at 460 (offset 4 lines).
patching file src/lastfm.cc
patching file build/libmediatomb_src
Hunk #1 succeeded at 69 (offset 2 lines).
patching file build/Makefile.am
Hunk #1 FAILED at 27.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 54.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 93.
3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file build/Makefile.am.rej
patching file configure.ac
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1621 with fuzz 2 (offset 52 lines).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 1957.
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file configure.ac.rej

Can you help me out, please?
Thanks
Tom