Few issues under Ubuntu Server 11.10
I'm really trying to get Serviio to work as my DLNA server having used Twonky for years. I've installed 0.6.2 on headless 64-bit Ubuntu server (11.10) - so SSH access only to it, no GUI.
I can correctly control Serviio with the brilliant ServiiDroid app on my phone, and also using the PHP/Curl Serviioweb console from a browser.
I happen to have my media library inside a samba share on the server. I've set up the Serviio folders on 3 categories:
/srv/samba/media/music (music only)
/srv/samba/media/pictures (pictures only)
/srv/samba/media/video (video only)
Descriptive metadata and autorefresh enabled on all 3.
A few issues so far:
1) I can't quite work out how to remove the alphabetical list when I browse a category. For music, I've only enabled 'Artist' but when browse to music on a DLNA client, I first get a list of numbers and letters. How to disable this? I think I'm probably not interpreting the setup correctly.
2) My PS3 seems to browse the list of items quite quickly. A DLNA client on an iPad2 works well. BubbleUPnP works well on my Android phone as a client too.
However, my Roberts Stream 83i either does not see the server at all, or responds really slowly, or pauses during playback. I THINK this might be to do with setting up a multicast route, since it worked perfectly with Twonky (which adds a multicast route itself, apparently, though I don't have details of it). Does anyone think this would help - and what the correct settings are?
3) Windows Media Player on Windows 7 finds Serviio but reports nothing available to play.
4) Files downloaded using get_iplayer on Linux are automatically converted from FLV to mp4 by FLVStreamer after download. They play fine on iPad2, Android and my Samsung Smart TV - but on the PS3 they play at double speed with no audio other than the occasional chirp. I've read about this issue around the net, but so far haven't found any suggestions. I guess it's a transcoding settings issue; I appreciate this is not Serviio related (same thing happens with alternative DLNA server software) but someone here might know!
Many thanks