Serviio

What is going to happen to the Mediabrowser in a few short months when Flash is EOL?

I've searched the forum, but can only come up with a thread from 4 years ago about some people trying to get HTML5 to work, so obviously it is not current.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21846

Thanks if I've missed something obvious - or if I'm the only one that cares lol

I'm pretty sure that MediaBrowser doesn't use Flash any longer. I can't say for sure if it's HTML5, but he did make a significant change a while back.

[quote]hI'm pretty sure that MediaBrowser doesn't use Flash any longer./quote]

I can confirm 200% that my version 1.8 still uses Flash for the mediabrowser

It's been moved to HTML5 player in 1.9: https://serviio.org/news/9-release-note ... -notes-1-9

Awesome!

Thank you so much!

Sorry to have to repost again Petr & Dan,

But unfortunately my attempted upgrade went very poorly

After installing the new version & restarting (Win 10), the console was throwing the error "Cannot connect to the server, it doesn't seem to be running..." And, just as the error correctly stated, the Serviio service wasn't running.
Ok, no big deal - just restart the service, right? No - it won't keep running.

What I have tried so far:
1) Re-installing my rock solid prior version 1.8 again - no change
2) Tried a Win 10 System Restore to last week - no change
3) Found I was getting an error in the Event Viewer id 7030 about Serviio being an interactive service. Updated the registry to allow for interactive services, as per this post: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10629 - no change, other than no more errors in the Event log.
4) Read on other Forum posts about re-installing Java, which I did - no change

So, I am really at a loss, and really need your help - as I don't want to uninstall Serviio & potentially lose all my settings from the last years.

If you could let me know, I'd really appreciate it - Thanks in advance!

Here is the debug log:

Well, from the looks of the log the database isn't accessible. But if you installed the latest version, then installed 1.8 without removing the newer version, that's the likely cause. You can't install older versions of Serviio over a newer version. With almost every update he changes the database in some way. With version 2.0, there were significant changes, and that would explain 1.8 not being able to start it.

Unfortunately, the only solution I am aware of is to completely remove Serviio, reboot, ensure the C:\Program Files\Serviio folder is gone, then doing a clean install. Now perhaps Petr knows of some magic script that might clean things up, but that's all I have.

Thanks again Dan,

I took your advice & completely removed 1.8 & did a clean install of 2.1 - and of course, now it works great again!
It took a looong time to reload my library (during which time my Sony wouldn't connect) & to re-edit my profile file, then to figure out that you now have to add a specific user to shared folders for them to show up in the Mediabrowser, and then that in order to see the same thing on my Sony BDP sx90 & Mediabrowser that I also had to set the Sony to be the same user in the console..but at least it was a learning lesson

Now that it's back up & running again - a couple of final / quick questions :
1) I don't recall seeing my Win 10 box where Serviio is installed previously listed in the console under connected devices - is that something new, or am I just having a failing memory? Is it there for the Mediabrowser? or can I just delete that entry?
2) What is the DB file name that was corrupted? (just so that I can set it up to be backed up).

Cheers,

Neil

1) The console simply recognizes everything on the network that might be capable of playing media. My console shows everything on my network other than my WAPs and router. You can delete any you don't think will ever actually play media, but don't be surprised if they reappear.

2) I would just back up the entire DB folder. I think the DB includes more than one file. So the entire C:\Program Files\Serviio\library\db folder. Just remember that a database backup might not be compatible with a different version of Serviio, so make sure you've run your backup as soon as you install the next update.

Thanks Dan - I had already had a look into the db \seg0 folder and thought it might be a specific .dat file, but your advice is well taken

Cheers,

Neil