DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

rap wrote:

Thanks for this - will give it a try at the weekend.

RAP

Let me know how it goes.  Mostly, I need to know if I provided all of the necessary dependencies.

The file download links should work now...  Fileqube had been highly recommended, but since their "upgrade" has now shut the site down for 4 days, I'll try box.net.

Please let me know how it works.

I'm happy to see it works for you.  I'll look into the wma patch for taglib.  As for mp4 audio tags, MediaTomb uses libmp4v2 to read the tags (this is a new feature of 0.12.0), but I cannot get it to work on the DNS-323.  It compiles fine on my DNS-323, but will not read the tags.  It works fine on my Ubuntu MediaTomb.  I've told Jin (MediaTomb developer) about this.

Thanks for the feedback

scarcow wrote:

Thanks, i could try it now. It works fine now, of course i had to tweak the config.xml a little. I could try the flac transcoding (this was the main reason i wanted to try your build), and it also works fine.
One little issue i found, is that wma and mp4 tags are not read. Is it possible to make taglib read those? I found one patch to taglib that makes it possible to read wma tags, but i am totally noob in compiling programs, so i can't even start to try to compile it.

Do you have time to look into this?

Anyway, thanks once more for this, it really makes me happy that i can play my flac now on the media player

-sc

Rival wrote:

I've followed instructions in the first message. My problem is that transcoding only works with local .ogg files. Streaming .ogg, local and streaming .aac, .flac don't work.

For example when I try to play local .aac file the stream doesn't start on the radio, just says "Connecting..."
When I type 'faad' in a DNS-323 telnet session it answers:

faad: can't load library 'libfaad.so.0'

I didn't find neither any libfaad installed in my NAS, nor any downloadable one.

My Freecom MusicPal can't play ogg, aac and flac, but I'd like to listen to ogg and aac streams from Internet. I can play now local ogg files, but it's the least important thing to me.

Is there any way to transcode .aac and .ogg streams on DNS-323 with Mediatomb and listen to it on MusicPal?

Update: I can play .ogg streams. I've put the streaming ogg file (found in the .m3u playlist file) in the database in a URL content. Keepin' tryin'...

I was able to replicate the "faad: can't load library 'libfaad.so.0'" issue.  The same thing can happen with madplay as well.  The problem is that I got faad and madplay from optware and it looks like the library path is hard coded to /opt/lib.  I moved the files from /opt/lib to /ffp/lib and I still get the can't load library error.  It looks like I will have to compile faad and madplay myself.  In the meantime, you can install madplay and faad from optware and it should work for you.

As far as streaming mp4 audio, it will not work because faad doesn't accept URLs, only files.  I haven't tested with streaming ogg, but its probably the same with oggdec.  I've only tested with mp3 and wmv (mms).

Thanks,
John

Rival wrote:

boilerjt wrote:

As far as streaming mp4 audio, it will not work because faad doesn't accept URLs, only files.  I haven't tested with streaming ogg, but its probably the same with oggdec.  I've only tested with mp3 and wmv (mms).

I repeat: ogg stream transcoding is working now. In Mediatomb database (web access) you need to put a new external link (URL) item with the exact URL of the streaming ogg media. As I see it works only this way, does not work with the .m3u playlist file.

For exaple (a Transylvanian regional radio):

Title: Régió Rádió   
URL: http://89.37.193.62:8000/highband.ogg
Protocol: http-get
Class: object.item
Description: Régió Rádió
Mimetype: application/ogg

If you could have a compiled libfaad I could try to play .aac stream and see if it works or not.

I've been messing with faad2 trying to compile it in fixed point mode and nothing is working for me.  It only seems to compile in floating point which will not work (--without-fp --nfp does not work).  The easiest thing to do is to download the optware build of faad (with libs) and it will work for you.   Follow the instructions here:

http://dns323.kood.org/howto:optware

When you get it set up, get faad by:  /opt/bin/ipkg install faad2

This will install the libs you need in /opt/lib and faad will work for you.  I have a very busy work week and will probably not be able to resume this until next weekend.

Last edited by boilerjt (2008-10-20 07:28:40)

boilerjt wrote:

Faad and Madplay have been recompiled using the ffp 0.5 toolchain and everything is now completely independent of optware.  The download links have been updated in Post #1.

That's great. Please add your packages to the wiki http://dns323.kood.org/howto:ffp#contri … iscussions so people will find them. Also, add a note about your extended packages in the mediatomb section http://dns323.kood.org/howto:ffp#mediat … dia_server

boilerjt wrote:

Is there any special trick to get inotify working?

Yes, you need a kernel >= 2.6.16.

According to wikipedia inotify can be compiled to 2.6.12

wikipedia wrote:

inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem that provides file system event notification. It was written by John McCutchan with help from Robert Love and later Amy Griffis to replace dnotify. It was included in the mainline kernel from release 2.6.13 (2005-06-18), and could be compiled into 2.6.12 and possibly earlier releases by use of a patch. Its function is essentially an extension to filesystems to notice changes to the filesystem, and report those changes to applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify


OK, i admit i know nothing about linux, so this might be totally irrelevant. I just wanted to search what is this inotify you guys are talking about, and found this.

-sc

I there any way to download a version that not contains hard coded paths? When I try to run your mediatomb version under fun_plug v0.3 it says sh:(...): not found. I realized, that your build has /ffp/... paths inside...

I've tried mediatomb-static-0.11.0-r1-linux-uclibc-armv4.tar.gz downloaded from http://mediatomb.cc/pages/download#optware but I had problems. I could reach web configuration, but UPnP didn't response. When I pressed CTRL-C, mediatomb said "killing" and wait... CTRL-C again, and said "can't stop sending killing signal again", etc... so it has freezed...

Last edited by Rival (2008-10-23 15:32:06)

I have updated MediaTomb to SVN 1903 and compiled it into a static build.  Please see Post #1 for the details.  Changes include using libmp4v2 to read and import m4a files and libexif to read photo exif metadata.

Thank you for the static version!
Meanwhile I've figured out a way how to use your fun_plug v0.5 copiled versions under fun_plug v0.3:

Install mediatomb described by boilerjt in post #1.

Back up your current fun_plug (v0.3) script:

cd /mnt/HD_a2
mv fun_plug fun_plug.03

Install the new fun_plug v0.5 described on it's homepage.

Install transcoding environment (funpkg -i ...).

Rename back the v0.3 script:

mv fun_plug fun_plug.05
mv fun_plug.03 fun_plug

Add the following lines to the end of v0.3 script:

echo "* Creating /ffp link..." >>${LOGFILE}
ln -snf /mnt/HD_a2/ffp /ffp

And restart...

I can finally use ogg stream transcoding feature of mediatomb under fun_plug v0.3. I love DNS-323... There is happiness... I do some research now about transcoding aac streams...

Rival wrote:

Thank you for the static version!
Meanwhile I've figured out a way how to use your fun_plug v0.5 copiled versions under fun_plug v0.3:

Install mediatomb described by boilerjt in post #1.

Back up your current fun_plug (v0.3) script:

cd /mnt/HD_a2
mv fun_plug fun_plug.03

Install the new fun_plug v0.5 described on it's homepage.

Install transcoding environment (funpkg -i ...).

Rename back the v0.3 script:

mv fun_plug fun_plug.05
mv fun_plug.03 fun_plug

Add the following lines to the end of v0.3 script:

echo "* Creating /ffp link..." >>${LOGFILE}
ln -snf /mnt/HD_a2/ffp /ffp

And restart...

I can finally use ogg stream transcoding feature of mediatomb under fun_plug v0.3. I love DNS-323... There is happiness... I do some research now about transcoding aac streams...

Great work figuring this out   As far as aac streams, I have had no luck using faad as it seems to expect a local file to play.  If you find anything, please let me know.