Wed May 10, 2023 9:34 am
Serviio on FreeBSD, specifically in TrueNAS 13.2
Serviio can run in FreeBSD and thus in TrueNAS Core, yes.
There's a FreeBSD port that is being kept reasonably welll updated, see https://www.freshports.org/net/serviio and the Serviio Wiki FreeBSD help page https://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=ho ... ll:freebsd.
There are several issues here: that installing via portmaster can take a lot of time is the most irritating quirk, but there is at least one more source of confusion.
1. In the Serviio Wiki FreeBSD help page there is a reference to "F.A.Q. - Upgrade Serviio", http://serviio.org/component/content/article?id=21#q8,
That instruction describes how to upgrade Serviio w/o formally reinstalling by "removing everything in the Serviio home folder, except 'library' and 'plugins'' ".
Unfortunately that is confusing in FreeBSD. In FreeBSD the contents of the Serviio home folder is spread out in various places, at least under /var and under .../java/classes/...
So, what would the corresponding light upgrade procedure be in FreeBSD?
2. In order to speed the initial installation up one can do a pkg install of certain packages, which includes ffmpeg.
But is the FreeBSD std ffmpeg package good enough? Have all the necessary options been enabled in the FreeBSD std ffmpeg?
If not, what options are reasonable, and is there a package or a port of an ffmpeg for Serviio as a "prêt á porter"?
There's a FreeBSD port that is being kept reasonably welll updated, see https://www.freshports.org/net/serviio and the Serviio Wiki FreeBSD help page https://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=ho ... ll:freebsd.
There are several issues here: that installing via portmaster can take a lot of time is the most irritating quirk, but there is at least one more source of confusion.
1. In the Serviio Wiki FreeBSD help page there is a reference to "F.A.Q. - Upgrade Serviio", http://serviio.org/component/content/article?id=21#q8,
That instruction describes how to upgrade Serviio w/o formally reinstalling by "removing everything in the Serviio home folder, except 'library' and 'plugins'' ".
Unfortunately that is confusing in FreeBSD. In FreeBSD the contents of the Serviio home folder is spread out in various places, at least under /var and under .../java/classes/...
So, what would the corresponding light upgrade procedure be in FreeBSD?
2. In order to speed the initial installation up one can do a pkg install of certain packages, which includes ffmpeg.
But is the FreeBSD std ffmpeg package good enough? Have all the necessary options been enabled in the FreeBSD std ffmpeg?
If not, what options are reasonable, and is there a package or a port of an ffmpeg for Serviio as a "prêt á porter"?
Serviio 2.3 in a jail on TrueNAS 13 running on an HP N54L w 5*4 TB spinning rust disks.
The media files are on the same machine.
The media files are on the same machine.