MEdia server with web interface
Hi,
My Ubuntu server (Oneric) box is sat sitting vastly under utilised. It's currently running as an FTP server and also has DNSMasq installed, so I thought I'd go about setting up a media server, but have hit so many brick walls it's unreal!
- I've used firefly in the past, but mt-daapd is no longer maintained
- I tried Ampache but could not for love nor money to get it to stream a playlist (It would create a playlist and add to it, but you can't add to a currently playing list on the fly, or I'm doing something very wrong!)
- Thought I'd have a crack at forked-mtdaapd but that lacks a web interface.
- Jinzora looked good but their site never seems to load from here.
- VLC is a no go as it's Ubuntu server so no GUI
So, the question is, what else is there out there?
I need something that will ideally stream music and movies (music is more important though) and will let me add to a playlist whilst it's currently playing.
A web interface for my family is a must.
For the time being, it will be streaming to other PCs but other devices may come along at some point.
Any suggestions are more than welcome!
Iain
Re: MEdia server with web interface
Jinzora is my current recommendation, although I haven't used it too much. It seems that it can stream video as well, but I'm only using it for audio at the moment. Not only will it stream to your default media player, it can also use an embedded player, but that's farther than I had to go in the tutorial. My main computer has automatic 5.1 upmixing that wouldn't be available with embedding. Anyway, I just put Jinzora on my 11.04 server last night. Here's the sourceforge link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jinzora/
and heres the steps i used to install it:
http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-ins...ntu/2008/08/25
Don't know whether you'll have the same problem, but I noticed that the install pages seem to take a long frickin time to load. They do eventually load though, and the main interface loaded just fine. Also, with jinzora3, for some reason, the file jinzora.cfg.php got renamed to jinzora_cfg.php in step 8 so i had to save it and manually add it to the server.
Hope that helps your Jinzora install :)
BC
http://bcboy.dyndns.org/
Re: MEdia server with web interface
Didn't think about searching sourceforge for it! Doh!
I've currently just found http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp and am very impressed with it especially the way it handles movies
Do you feel Jinzora is better, or just different? If it offers a lot over Subsonic I'll give it a whirl tomorrows¬!
Thanks
Iain
Re: MEdia server with web interface
Hmmmm..... trying to install Jinzora, and it just refuses to read the index.php after I've run the config.sh
Placed in the root of my www directory just get a 404 each time I try to load it.....
Re: MEdia server with web interface
Quote:
Originally Posted by
monkeypigs
Didn't think about searching sourceforge for it! Doh!
I've currently just found
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp and am very impressed with it especially the way it handles movies
Do you feel Jinzora is better, or just different? If it offers a lot over Subsonic I'll give it a whirl tomorrows¬!
Thanks
Iain
Unknown. I've only just built my server, and have only tried Jinzora and Ampache (ampache is too limited for my happiness). I have had some difficulties with Jinzora, so I'll be checking out subsonic tonight. Thanks for the tip.
EDIT: First impressions, I like subsonic a lot more than Jinzora...might be making a change to my server :)
Quote:
Originally Posted by
monkeypigs
Hmmmm..... trying to install Jinzora, and it just refuses to read the index.php after I've run the config.sh
Placed in the root of my www directory just get a 404 each time I try to load it.....
I have a website in place already (http://bcboy.dyndns.org/ shameless plug ftw) so I installed to /var/www/jinzora. As I mentioned, it took an exceptionally long time to load index.php the first time, several minutes in fact. Perhaps your browser is timing it out?
BC
Re: MEdia server with web interface
I've had a look at some screenshots and Jinzora is out of the question now!
One thing I did find with Subsonic is that it struggles with some video files, audio is out of sync.
This is down to the default config only having 100Mb RAM usage.
I've got 1.7Gb on my server and it's never used more than 400 Mb RAM before I installed Subsonic so I've upped it's memory to 768Mb RAM and it plays video real smooth now.
Code:
pico /etc/default/subsonic
Change
Code:
SUBSONIC_ARGS="--max-memory=100"
to
Code:
SUBSONIC_ARGS="--max-memory=768"
and restart subsonic
Code:
/etc/init.d/subsonic restart
Re: MEdia server with web interface
Quote:
Originally Posted by
monkeypigs
I've had a look at some screenshots and Jinzora is out of the question now!
One thing I did find with Subsonic is that it struggles with some video files, audio is out of sync.
This is down to the default config only having 100Mb RAM usage.
I've got 1.7Gb on my server and it's never used more than 400 Mb RAM before I installed Subsonic so I've upped it's memory to 768Mb RAM and it plays video real smooth now.
Code:
pico /etc/default/subsonic
Change
Code:
SUBSONIC_ARGS="--max-memory=100"
to
Code:
SUBSONIC_ARGS="--max-memory=768"
and restart subsonic
Code:
/etc/init.d/subsonic restart
Yep, after taking a look at subsonic, I switched too. Jinzora is off my server. I'm not using it for video streaming, but I changed my config to 128MB (my server is really limited in RAM, only 512MB, with 2GB swap). I've not yet noticed any trouble with the stream.
Re: MEdia server with web interface
Hi - has mt-daapd been removed by 11.10 upgrade process?
I've had mt-daapd running quite happily since Ubuntu 8.04 streaming music to two roku network music players. After upgrading to 11.10 last night mt-daapd has stopped working..last message in the log below
Quote:
2011-10-22 15:29:26 (83b73a30): Updating playlists
2011-10-22 15:29:26 (83b73a30): Scanned 2564 songs (was 2564) in 1 seconds
2011-10-23 00:40:39 (83b73a30): Got shutdown signal.
2011-10-23 00:40:39 (83b73a30): Stopping gracefully
2011-10-23 00:40:39 (83b73a30): Closing database
2011-10-23 00:40:39 (83b73a30): Done!
Can this be true - has mt-daapd been removed?
Looking at the shell script below - should there be a daemon in /usr/sbin/mt-daapd? (I've looked and there isn't now!) It would be great to get this old friend working again.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: mt-daapd
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $time avahi
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $time
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Multithreaded DAAP music server
# Description: mt-daapd, a.k.a. Firefly Media Server, is what
# most people will understand to be an iTunes share
# server. It uses the DAAP protocol, as iTunes does,
# and supports streaming MP3 and AAC natively. It can
# make use of a number of conversion methods to expose
# Ogg and FLAC files too.
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/mt-daapd
DAEMON_OPTS=-m
NAME=mt-daapd
DESC=mt-daapd
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
# Include mt-daapd defaults if available
if [ -f /etc/default/mt-daapd ] ; then
. /etc/default/mt-daapd
fi
set -e
stopd() {
echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
--signal 2 --exec $DAEMON --oknodo
echo "$NAME."
counter=0
seen=0
while pidof mt-daapd >/dev/null && [ $counter -lt 15 ]; do
if [ $seen -eq 0 ]; then
echo -n "Waiting for mt-daapd to terminate..."
seen=1
fi
counter=$(($counter + 1))
echo -n "."
sleep 1
done
echo "OK, all clear."
}
startd() {
echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet -m --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
--oknodo --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS 2>/dev/null
echo "$NAME."
}
case "$1" in
start)
startd
;;
stop)
stopd
;;
restart|force-reload)
stopd
startd
;;
*)
N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
I can still see the project on sourcefourge http://sourceforge.net/projects/mt-d...daapd/0.2.4.2/
Can I reinstall it from this? If so - how? Are there other dependencies I need to check - like avahi - would 11.10 have removed this aswell?
Re: MEdia server with web interface
I've no idea about it being removed by the upgrade process.
I was running the 11.10 beta for quite a while and mt-daap was never availible.
mt-daapd was replaced by forked-daapd which is basically the same minus the web interface. You can find further info specific to forked-daapd on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1354196
Without the user web interface it was of no use to me, hence my use of Subsonic and I'd urge you to have a look at that as well. It's free but you have to donate 10 euro to continue using advanced features (eg Video streaming) after the first month - well worth the price!
Hope that helps!
Re: MEdia server with web interface
Thanks monkeypigs. Am trying to get forked-daapd running. Not there yet - see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...7#post11405387
I think I need a daap server with RSP support for Roku's SoundBridge devices. Can see that forked-daapd has this http://www.jblache.org/projects/daapd/
I don't think Subsonic does. Do you know?
cheers