Serviio

Hello,

Would anyone be able to point me in the direction of a step by step installation and setup guide for Serviio on a Linux distro?

I've been looking through the forum and on other areas associated with the serviio website, and including general Google searches and all I can find are references that assume one has a certain measure of knowledge related to installing a package such as serviio.

Most of the references I see use too much arcane terminology and to tell the truth I don't have hours of time to learn the ins and outs of Linux terminal commands. I just want something along the lines of the information that may have been given the first time serviio was created as to what to do a-z in terms of installing the package, where to put the package, how to open the program, how to run the program, etc.

Does anybody know of any such guide?

Thanks.

Any certain Linux you want to use?

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I'm using Pinguy OS which is an offshoot of Mint.

I'm really just looking for how to go about installing serviio into a directory and then how to run it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

the reason we were asking if you are sure you wanted the linux version is that it's rarely as simple as downloading an single executable then running it in the linux world.

using your distro I am sure it's easy to just grab apps and run them, but when your dealing with a software package outside of your distro's repo.. this is when you have to get your hands dirty so to speak.

there is a matter of dependencies, user accounts, and many more moving parts.

I used this guide when I took my first foray into a linux serviio instance, it worked pretty good. maybe you can just extract the relevant bits for your own use.

http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=how ... all:centos

Thanks for the link. I'll give it a try. I was expecting to get my hands dirty but just lacked a step by step guide and learning the entire Linux programming environment to run one program was not my idea of a good time.

The hardest thing i have found is getting ffmpeg configured right.

Ubuntu 12.04 works pretty good and there is a script to install ffmpeg


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Follow the guide in WIKI to get your ffmpeg to compile and work correctly. Use the ffmpeg source from serviio download page.

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

If you go with Ubuntu 12.04, follow the instructions & discussions on compiling ffmpeg in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6039

Use the ./configure settings supplied by Sagan.
Use the development package list given by Syncopated.

These might work for other distros also.

For some reason, I could not get Serviio to work with online resources unless I used the ffmpeg source from
the wiki & compiled it per the instructions. FYI, I omitted the last step in the wiki guide (rebuild x264) as I got
errors I could not fix.

Seems to work fine so far.

The instructions in WIKI are up to date and should work without issues. If there are issues, do post them so we can update the instructions as needed.

Again, the instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 and work without much debugging and tinkering on most fresh Ubuntu installs.