Serviio

I'm trying to get serviio to run native on my ReadyNas104.
The ReadyNAS104 runs an arm CPU(armel) with linux debian (wheezy) as its OS.
Now that I've worked out how to manually integrate applications into the frontview web interface - I'd like to replace the rather clunky built-in DLNA server with serviio.

I've spent a few hours trying to find a version of java 8 compiled for armel - but have been unsuccessful - so I need a version of serviio that supports java 7. Any chance of making a back copy of serviio (linux) available for download please?

All previous versions can be downloaded by substituting the version number required in the URL. For example, to download version 1.4.1.2 use:

http://download.serviio.org/releases/serviio-1.4.1.2-linux.tar.gz

or substitute 1.4.1.2 for whatever version you require. ps. Version 1.4.1.2 was the last version to use java 7.

Hey nickski. Follow my post here viewtopic.php?p=97977#p97977 for building JRE 8 for Arm. Hope that helps. Thanks

Thanks DenyAll & norm.
Well I'm in the process of building a new ffmpeg - might as well go the whole hog and build java too!
I'll let you know how it goes.

Hi norm,
Good news: Got ffmpeg 2.2.3 built from source and tested with serviio
Bad news: still can't get Java 8 working!

I built java8 on Windows and copied across to my NAS - as per your recommendations - that seemed to work fine (see box below).
$ java -version
>picked up the old 1.6 Java - that's OK as I have other apps that require Java6

$ /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-armel/bin/java - version
>gives error ...
>error while loading shared libraries: libjli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I see that libjli.so exists in /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-armel/lib/arm/jli so this seems to be a problem with how java manages and resolves its link table.
Lots of google hits on this but mostly bogus or don't work for me - any suggetsions?


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I've just been doing some digging using "export LD_DEBUG=libs" to debug the loader/linker - need to do some thinking ...

I think you are getting there. Have you got more than one JRE installed? Try removing any previous JRE. Then add JAVA 8 to your path

You'll need to have added JAVA 8 to your path before running Serviio. I've found that other Java 6 apps (eg Crashplan) seem to run fine with eJRE8.

After much gnashing of teeth I've worked out what the problem is!

The ReadyNAS104 runs Debian wheezy on arm(el) architecture. (el) indicates that floating point instructions are emulated within the OS software (soft-float) and not performed directly on a supporting processor (hard-float). I didn't understand this when I set out to build java 8 - and so downloaded the only arm based java 8 library I could find on Oracle's site. Unfortunately Oracle only have a hard-float version for downlaod at the moment and that's the one I used for my build. Consequently when I try to run it on a system that doesn't support hard-float - it fails.

So it looks like until Oracle provide a soft-float version of java 8 for arm systems, The ReadyNAS104 is destined to only run java7 and thus serviio 1.4*

... unless somebody knows better.

Just tried one more search and found the right java 8 version (armel soft-float) hidden away on a completely different page on Oracle's site !!!!
and it took 5 minutes to get it installed and working. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/embedded-se/downloads/index.html

Now back to testing serviio 1.5 ...