Serviio

Posted: **Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:20 am**

Hi
Someone tried successfully to install serviio on Western Digital My Book Live?
If so, can you make a step by step guide for a newbie in Linux?
Thanx

Posted: **Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:34 pm**

Search the forum... people tried: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1889&p=10199&hilit=wd+mybook#p10199

Posted: **Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:58 pm**

After several attempts I was able to make serviio run with MyBook Live:

1. Enable my book live root shell and log in as root / welc0me
2. Install optware. Just follow the instructions on http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/optware
3. Install the core-utils package from optware
4. Add a symbolic link for dirname to the core-utils package:

Code:: # ln -s /opt/bin/coreutils-dirname /usr/bin/dirname

5. Install ibm java - it's a 1.6 version. Grab the 32bit IBM POWER Install anywere J2SE version from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html

6. Install serviio tgz package
7. Run Serviio.sh. Make sure JAVA_PATH points to you newly installed IBM JRE
8. Configure serviio console with -Dserviio.remoteHost=<hostname> (check the forum)
9. Set up a init.d script for serviio start / stop with NAS boots. Check this site for instructions http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28

So far looks great. The box is fast enough to run it smoothly with subtitles, skip/ff and resume - all tested and working fine.

Keep up the good work with serviio

Posted: **Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:03 pm**

nice can you do one thing though and make it a full howto rather than giving links ( as they can die ) then we can stickie it for other users? or would you like me to do that from information you have provide and then get you to look over it to make sure i havent made any mistakes?

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:27 pm**

Does anyone install serviio on MBL using tozevv guide?

MBL comes with TwonkyManager v5 (too old) and for upgrade it i must have to buy a new license for version 6.

As i have Serviio installed on my home pc, and i like it a lot, i want to try it on my MBL.

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:40 pm**

try it according to Tozevv it works, and he has given a great guide. i will however try and make a full guide this week and add it to the wiki.

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:15 pm**

I am affraid to try it because i've never tryed any linux commands. And if anything goes wrong, waranty will be avoided

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:58 am**

joaorsfonseca wrote:I am affraid to try it because i've never tryed any linux commands. And if anything goes wrong, waranty will be avoided

So I'm not sure what you're asking for..

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:35 pm**

zip wrote:
joaorsfonseca wrote:I am affraid to try it because i've never tryed any linux commands. And if anything goes wrong, waranty will be avoided

So I'm not sure what you're asking for..

Just ake if anyone have installed serviio using tozevv guide.

Posted: **Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:14 pm**

tozevv wrote:After several attempts I was able to make serviio run with MyBook Live:

5. Install ibm java - it's a 1.6 version. Grab the 32bit IBM POWER Install anywere J2SE version from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html

6. Install serviio tgz package
7. Run Serviio.sh. Make sure JAVA_PATH points to you newly installed IBM JRE
8. Configure serviio console with -Dserviio.remoteHost=<hostname> (check the forum)
9. Set up a init.d script for serviio start / stop with NAS boots. Check this site for instructions http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28

So far looks great. The box is fast enough to run it smoothly with subtitles, skip/ff and resume - all tested and working fine.

I am stuck at step 5, been trolling the net for days now with no luck. Can anyone help with step by step? Does it have to be ibm? would sun do?

~ Dan.

Posted: **Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:57 am**

Sun Java is preferred

Posted: **Mon Dec 26, 2011 1:31 am**

Hi Guys,

I am stuck trying to get Java 6 installed on the WD My Book Live, the prerequisite for Serviio.
The link supplied no longer works, have tried looking for a similar download but had no luck.

I am relatively new to debian so any help would be appreciated.
I have tried openjdk and sun through the aptitude/apt-get mechanism it will not work due to missing dependencies which i cannot install either!

Thanks!

Posted: **Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:26 pm**

run

Code:: apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

then run

Code:: update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

sudo maybe require at start of command. see below

Code:: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

then run

Code:: sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:44 pm**

Thanks Cerberus.

I could not reach the distribution links in /etc/apt/sources.list, I added these to /etc/hosts and was able to install open-jdk.

I have been able to get Serviio up and running on the MBL.
Access and Play works ok from my iPad but playing from Sony Bravia TV throws up the following error:

Error while processing resource, sending back 500 error. Message: Transcoded file '/tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-125-MPEG2TS.stf' cannot be found, FFmpeg execution probably failed
java.io.IOException: Transcoded file '/tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-125-MPEG2TS.stf' cannot be found, FFmpeg execution probably failed
at org.serviio.delivery.resource.AbstractTranscodingDeliveryEngine.retrieveTranscodedResource(AbstractTranscodingDeliveryEngine.java:115)

I have looked around the forum and found that a possible cause is executing serviio as root, which I am doing.

I tried creating a user and running Serviio under this, it now fails with a java ClassDef not found.

My question is, is there a preferred serviio user setup, is this documented anywhere? I could not see explicit instructions on the forum.
If I change the user do I need to perform any additional actions or reinstall Serviio?

Thanks in Advance!

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:17 pm**

once you change user make sure that new user has premissions to access java installation directory or u will get that issue.

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:23 pm**

Thanks Cerberus,

I got the Serviio server running as a daemon at startup (as shown in forum how to) under a different user which has secondary group root so should be ok for Java.
All seems to be ok, iPad access works fine but the Bravia TV still fails to play the videos.

This points the server running ok and no issues with Java?
I have lost my serviio.log file but would appear to be still around transcoding.

Anything obvious I should be looking at? I have the latest ffmpeg and doing an ffmpeg -i <file> looks ok.

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:52 pm**

Have you got the console working? If so under the transcoding tab, you can disable trancoding and see if the Ipad still works properly and everything will play. This will check and see if the transcoding is working or not.

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:57 pm**

jc_slig wrote:Thanks Cerberus,

I got the Serviio server running as a daemon at startup (as shown in forum how to) under a different user which has secondary group root so should be ok for Java.
All seems to be ok, iPad access works fine but the Bravia TV still fails to play the videos.

This points the server running ok and no issues with Java?
I have lost my serviio.log file but would appear to be still around transcoding.

Anything obvious I should be looking at? I have the latest ffmpeg and doing an ffmpeg -i <file> looks ok.

no not java but it looks asif ffmpeg is the issue as ipad doesnt use transcoding but sony does so either its access issue or wd my book cant cope with transcoding, from what i can tell.

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:09 pm**

Yes it appears to be related to FFMpeg, however would the previous issue be a symptom of the below error? Not sure how FFMpeg works.
See below for output I got from FFMpeg command prior to "/tmp/Serviio not found" error in serviio.log.

Is there any limitation of filename length or should it be space free?

ffmpeg -i "/shares/Public/Shared Videos/TV Shows/TV Show/file.avi" -y -threads 1 -vcodec mpeg2video -b 17000k -maxrate 17000k -bufsize 5097k -r 24000/1001 -g 15 -copyts -acodec ac3 -ab 192k -ac 2 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts /tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-125-MPEG2TS.stf
FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.4-4:0.5.4-1, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5.4-1 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libdirac --enable-libgsm --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libfaad --enable-libdc1394 --disable-altivec --enable-shared --disable-static
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 1 / 52.20. 1
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Mar 27 2011 04:50:25, gcc: 4.4.5
Input #0, avi, from '/shares/Public/Shared Videos/TV Shows/TV Show/file.avi':
Duration: 00:53:15.74, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1442 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 624x352 [PAR 1:1 DAR 39:22], 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s
Unknown encoder 'mpeg2video'

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:12 pm**

ah i see your ffmpeg is very very old that might be cause of these issue, you will need to update it.

http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=build_ffmpeg_linux

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