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dns323-ps3 wrote:

Hi all,

I would like to report about 2 issues I have encountered - probably someone could comment on that:

1) On SVN1903 I am trying to use libexif and it does not work. Obviously I have added in config.xml (import section) something like:

<library-options>
<libexif>
<auxdata>
<add-data tag="EXIF_TAG_MODEL"/>
<add-data tag="EXIF_TAG_DATE_TIME_ORIGINAL"/>
</auxdata>
</libexif>
</library-options>

However when I try to import a picture (from 3 different cameras in fact) obj.aux is still an empty object (instead of associative array with EXIF data)

2) On SVN2017 (installed from scratch) my web interface does not work - I get in logs something like unable to find "update"

If somebody could help me with at least 1st issue, I would appreciate it.

1) Somebody else had this same issue in this thread:

http://dns323.kood.org/forum/t3070-Medi … Great.html

2) I've never seen this error.  As long as your web browser is pointing to the right port (usually 49152), it works 100% for me.

Thanks - I'll look in to that.

Hope you don't mind another question - I think I saw on the mediatomb site somewhere that it may be able to stream from an iso of a dvd. Have you looked in to this at all - I was wondering how that might work with my PS3 if I was to use DVD shrink on some of my DVDcollection?

RAP

rap wrote:

Thanks - I'll look in to that.

Hope you don't mind another question - I think I saw on the mediatomb site somewhere that it may be able to stream from an iso of a dvd. Have you looked in to this at all - I was wondering how that might work with my PS3 if I was to use DVD shrink on some of my DVDcollection?

RAP

jaxc wrote:

Is it possible to use DVD .iso files on this release of mediatomb??? So yes, how do i get them working ??

thnx

This feature will be a reality in the near future.  In the SVN code, the current DVD iso code is broken.  Therefore, it is completely disabled in the current DNS-323 version I have made available.  A few of us are currently working on a solution (while real life is keeping Jin from working on MediaTomb) and it does look promising.  If Jin accepts the code patches, I will build this into the DNS-323

patwoods wrote:

any chance this will work with avi/divx?  my hr20 does not seem to like the .avi files I have.

The HR20 only plays mpeg2 ts video and all other video needs to be transcoded.  However, the DNS-323 does not have enough horsepower to transcode video on the fly and a PC would be needed. 

If you run Windows, TVersity seems to work the best with transcoding.  If you are running Linux, MediaTomb is definitely the best

boilerjt wrote:

dns323-ps3 wrote:

Hi all,

I would like to report about 2 issues I have encountered - probably someone could comment on that:

1) On SVN1903 I am trying to use libexif and it does not work. Obviously I have added in config.xml (import section) something like:

<library-options>
<libexif>
<auxdata>
<add-data tag="EXIF_TAG_MODEL"/>
<add-data tag="EXIF_TAG_DATE_TIME_ORIGINAL"/>
</auxdata>
</libexif>
</library-options>

However when I try to import a picture (from 3 different cameras in fact) obj.aux is still an empty object (instead of associative array with EXIF data)

2) On SVN2017 (installed from scratch) my web interface does not work - I get in logs something like unable to find "update"

If somebody could help me with at least 1st issue, I would appreciate it.

1) Somebody else had this same issue in this thread:

http://dns323.kood.org/forum/t3070-Medi … Great.html

2) I've never seen this error.  As long as your web browser is pointing to the right port (usually 49152), it works 100% for me.

Hi boilerjt,

Thank you for your asnwers. In fact I tried to re-new my database and config files, however it does not help. I suppose my problem can be related to the fact that I installed your package with no ffp - just a standalone application. Probably I should try to install ffp first.

Thanks

Brazen wrote:

Ooops... nevermind.  I just tried the 2017 build download again after writing this, and all 5mb came through ok from box.net.  BTW.... what's the trick to UnInstalling this?  I didn't realize the tarball was corrupt yesterday and attempted to install it on the DNS-323.  It created the /mediatomb12/ dir, and now it's locked.  I wanted to delete all traces of the failed install before using this new download.

Brazen

There really is no uninstalling it.  The easiest way is to telnet into the DNS-323 and delete the files manually with an rm -r mediatomb12.  Since you are root when you telnet in, it should delete the entire directory without any problems.

dns323-ps3 wrote:

Hi boilerjt,

I still encounter problem with web UI on my SVN2017 build - even after installing ffp 0.5. I still get "ERROR: Unknown page: update" in logs and Filesystem view in my browser does not show any content. Previous build (1903) works fine (except it does not parse EXIF in my jpg files). What could I miss in my installations that would lead to such a problem? Any ideas would be appreciated a lot.

Also could you confirm that either 1903 or 2017 builds parse EXIF metadata for sure? Unfortunately mediatomb in ffp 0.5 goes w/o js support and I cannot check it there.

Thank you in advance.

Make sure you are using all of the files in the 2017 tarball and not trying to use any files from 1903.  I think some files from the WebUI may have been updated.  As for the EXIF stuff,  both builds have libexif support and I have tested it in 1903 and it did work (see the other thread I referenced earlier.)  I will test it again in 2017 sometime later this week as I have a busy next couple of days.

rap wrote:

Hi boilerjet -quick question for you. Do you know why mediatomb seems to have so many processes running?

Top shows:-

PID     PPID USER  STAT   VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND

32034 32023 root     S    43464  70%   0% /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12/usr/bin/mediatomb -m /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12 -f config -d --add /mnt/HD_a2/Media
32024 32023 root     S    43464  70%   0% /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12/usr/bin/mediatomb -m /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12 -f config -d --add /mnt/HD_a2/Media
32033 32023 root     S    43464  70%   0% /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12/usr/bin/mediatomb -m /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12 -f config -d --add /mnt/HD_a2/Media
32029 32023 root     S    43464  70%   0% /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12/usr/bin/mediatomb -m /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12 -f config -d --add /mnt/HD_a2/Media
12917 32023 root     S    43464  70%   0% /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12/usr/bin/mediatomb -m /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12 -f config -d --add /mnt/HD_a2/Media
32023 32022 root     S    43464  70%   0% /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12/usr/bin/mediatomb -m /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12 -f config -d --add /mnt/HD_a2/Media
32022        1 root     S    43464  70%   0% /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12/usr/bin/mediatomb -m /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12 -f config -d --add /mnt/HD_a2/Media
32490 32023 root     S    43464  70%   0% /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12/usr/bin/mediatomb -m /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12 -f config -d --add /mnt/HD_a2/Media
32027 32023 root     S    43464  70%   0% /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12/usr/bin/mediatomb -m /mnt/HD_a2/mediatomb12 -f config -d --add /mnt/HD_a2/Media

Quote from Jin (MT Developer):

On some embedded systems/some architectures threads are displayed as processes and will appear in the "ps" list, this is normal. You will notice that if you kill the main process (i.e. press ctrl-c int he shell where MediaTomb is running) all other processes will also disappear.

rap wrote:

Many thanks - did wonder how they were all taking 70% of the memory !!

RAP

I only see high memory after I import a lot of stuff.  After restarting MediaTomb, the memory usage should drop.  This is a known issue and Jin will look at it.

You can also try changing <storage> to <storage caching="no"> in config.xml.  This may help with the high memory usage.

Last edited by boilerjt (2009-02-28 19:54:55)

Hi,
I'm fairly new to all of this but I succeed to install your 0.12 builts on my CH3SNAS and it runs pretty well, with one exeption:
I don't see any *.mp3 files on the PS3 listed, although the structure for the artists, albums, ... exist. Have tried both, builtin and js configuration. The strange thing is, that on my iPhone I can see and play all the mp3s using plugplayer.

Anybody could advise what might be wrong?

Thanks

7erl wrote:

Hi,
I'm fairly new to all of this but I succeed to install your 0.12 builts on my CH3SNAS and it runs pretty well, with one exeption:
I don't see any *.mp3 files on the PS3 listed, although the structure for the artists, albums, ... exist. Have tried both, builtin and js configuration. The strange thing is, that on my iPhone I can see and play all the mp3s using plugplayer.

Anybody could advise what might be wrong?

Thanks

Since your iPhone can play the mp3s from MediaTomb, I would assume that they all imported properly using the ID3 tags.  One thing I have noticed on my PS3 is that is the NAS drive(s) are spun down, the PS3 is sometimes not very patient and says no files are found.  When the NAS drives are spun up, I have no issues.  As an experiment, go ahead and access the NAS drive(s) from your PC, then start up the PS3 (if it is already running, shut it down and restart it)  and see if you can see the mp3 files.

boilerjt wrote:

Soprano wrote:

I thought I read that libmp4v2 was working or no? I have hundreds of m4a files that are in the Unknown folder, so it doesn't seem to be reading the tags properly. Is there any way to get this to work? Thanks!

Using a default config.xml, I can import my m4a files (all 20 of them) with no problems.  Do all of your m4a files end up in the Unknown folder?  One thing you can check is to look at one of the m4a files in Unknown using the WebUI.  Select one of the files and click the edit icon.  What is the mimetype listed?

Yes, they end up in the Unknown folder. Getting info from the WebUI, the filetype is "audio/m4a"

Soprano wrote:

7erl wrote:

Hi,
I'm fairly new to all of this but I succeed to install your 0.12 builts on my CH3SNAS and it runs pretty well, with one exeption:
I don't see any *.mp3 files on the PS3 listed, although the structure for the artists, albums, ... exist. Have tried both, builtin and js configuration. The strange thing is, that on my iPhone I can see and play all the mp3s using plugplayer.

Anybody could advise what might be wrong?

Thanks

Make sure your not trying to view the music files folder in the Video section of the XMB. You need to go to the Audio section on the XMB and then you will be able to see you music files. I did the same damn thing until I figured it out.

That was exactly my bad. Guess I outed myself as a n00b now :-).
Anyways - thanks for this great stuff!

Regards
7erl