Serviio

I am just now experimenting getting Serviio running on my unRaid server. I will try to document my attempt here. If anyone else has already accomplished this I'd love to hear about it.

Here is a post on the unRAID boards from someone who has already accomplished this.

Currently running Serviio.sh results in an error: "./Serviio.sh: line 67: java: command not found". I believe I have Java installed using the unRaid plugin called unMenu.

Is it on a path? or in a env property JAVA_HOME ?

Wooooosh. Right over my head. I'm a total Linux noob so this is all new territory to me but I am eager to learn and get it working. I'll figure out what you said after doing some research and post back. I'll sideline my work on getting HD mpeg2 files to stream properly to my Sony TV for the moment.

I can see Java installed at usr/lib/java. Does that mean anything to you? I could add to my go script "export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java". Do you think that would be helpful?

I figured out how to get java working. Now when I invoke "serviio.sh &" I get the output "[1] 15371". Is that expected?

Now I guess it is time to read up on how to get the console on my window 7 PC to talk to the Server on Unraid.

That should be ok. You can check serviio.log to see if it started properly and if there are any errors

I've been trying to search the forums on how to connect the Windows console to the unRaid server, but the search page is giving me an error. Can you gimme a hand?

Did you read the FAQ? http://www.serviio.org/component/content/article/21#q2

you need to setup remoteHost property for both, server and console including the server's IP address

Thanks. I scanned it, but somehow totally missed that section. I guess 'cause when I scanned it it was 4am.

Now my next trick is to get ffmpeg installed.

I am using a version of ffmpeg for Slackware 13.1 from http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slac ... kg64/13.1/

Looks like all is up and running. I am having trouble adding paths though. Are SMB paths written differently when running Serviio under Linux? I entered a path like "\\tower\movies" and one like "\\192.168.0.2\Photos", but I don't see any content showing up.

I've also just tried "/mnt/user/Movies" and "mnt/user/Movies", still no luck. In a telnet session I can see all my various files by "cd /mnt/user/Movies".

Here is a log if that helps.

After some more experimenting it appears that "/mnt/user/Movies" is the right syntax. Servvio is jut having issues for some reason. When browsing it from XBMC and trying to view images I'll see the following show up in the telnet session.

The character encoding on your OS is US-ASCII and some file names have characters that cannot be read. Not sure if there is a way to enforce encoding for the whole OS.
Something similar was discussed here: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=692&p=5572&hilit=hebrew#p5832 (setting it to UTF-8)

Based on that post I added the following to my serviio.sh file:

So it now reads:

Yet in the log it still shows File encoding: US-ASCII. So I must be doing it wrong.

So when browsing thru my images I still get the error posted above, but the log show nothing. I will turn on DEBUG and see what it shows.

DEBUG log shows nothing just a bunch of lines where it is adding items to the DB.

I am getting a lot of unknown video file type on my .mkv files:
Do you think my ffmpeg is too old or not installed properly?

try executing ffmpeg -i <the mkv file> and post the result back

exporting the Language: I'm not sure if it was in the sh file or somewhere else for the whole OS or user session.

I'm trying to find out how to set the language for unRaid. Right now I think I am having ffmpeg issues. Invoking ffmpeg gives me an error "cannot execute binary file". So I tried a different version and I got an error about libasound.so.2 not found.

So now I am testing yet another version.

Ideal would be if you compile the version here: http://www.serviio.org/files/ffmpeg-23013.tar.gz

Yeah. I am looking into how to do that now. I have never compiled anything, so this may take me a while. I'll report back when I can get that done.

what OS are you using ???