Very heart felt thank you!!!
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:14 pmMy kids absolutely love their movies. I have been a long time user of Serviio but I did not understand the raw power of this program. I recently got an old Pentium 4 Dell from the in-laws with a bad HDD. So I installed a new 1TB drive and dropped in my 1TB media drive and set it up with this program and BAM works amazing on a 300 watt 10 year old computer even playing 720p+ movies over LAN to my Sony BDP-Sx590 (2012)!
The setup I'm using is Linux Mint 15 - .19 Boot image, 2x 1TB HDD, ATI 6K GPU, 300 Watt PSU, 4GB 800Mhz RAM, Intel Pentium 4 HT CPU, Netgear WNDR3700 running latest DD-Wrt Firmware.
The only thing I can comment on is the setup instruction for linux are lacking, I already knew how to use linux and so I could easily set it up but when I read through the instructions online the only thing that was really clear was setting up the auto run part lol.
I would like to point out that on a fresh install I could not start the Serviio service or control panel from a shortcut/link on the desktop. It would only let me if I navigated to the folder and ran it, (Could be a permission issue). Also, you don't have to make a Serviio user, as long as the service and files your going to stream are all owned by the main user and not root.
Lastly I think it should be in bold letters somewhere that you need the FFmpeg package installed. After some looking I found it on the wiki but it should be in the linux install instruction labeled must read or something in bold for the non-linux comfortable user.
Either way, bravo on making and maintaing this software. I will be purchasing a pro version in the near future.
The setup I'm using is Linux Mint 15 - .19 Boot image, 2x 1TB HDD, ATI 6K GPU, 300 Watt PSU, 4GB 800Mhz RAM, Intel Pentium 4 HT CPU, Netgear WNDR3700 running latest DD-Wrt Firmware.
The only thing I can comment on is the setup instruction for linux are lacking, I already knew how to use linux and so I could easily set it up but when I read through the instructions online the only thing that was really clear was setting up the auto run part lol.
I would like to point out that on a fresh install I could not start the Serviio service or control panel from a shortcut/link on the desktop. It would only let me if I navigated to the folder and ran it, (Could be a permission issue). Also, you don't have to make a Serviio user, as long as the service and files your going to stream are all owned by the main user and not root.
Lastly I think it should be in bold letters somewhere that you need the FFmpeg package installed. After some looking I found it on the wiki but it should be in the linux install instruction labeled must read or something in bold for the non-linux comfortable user.
Either way, bravo on making and maintaing this software. I will be purchasing a pro version in the near future.