Serviio

Maybe I'm not the best user with Ubuntu server,
But I've at least managed to setup time machine backup for my mac, and file sharing for windows, as well as static ip, ssh, and format and mount 2 extra hdds, so I figure i've got the basics down.

But If someone could point me in the direction of some guides that would be great,

So far I've managed to get the program installed with the other programs needed like I think it was ffmpeg,
but when I query the serviio service I get stop/start, nothing about it running,

So I'm not sure where to move on from here, like set up folder locations

I checked weather serviio worked on my windows 7 desktop with my samsung tv over the network, which it worked well enough just couldn't fastforward the video files, which I'm sure I can figure out with some more reading in the forums

I found this post :
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Working perfectly for me.
I installed serviio on /var/opt/serviio
And changed the path in the serviio.conf file.
I only have a problem with pause/forward/rewind but seems to be my sony tv fault (see my post on forum)

Ok fixed the part where it wasn't starting the application, a miss type on my part for starting the service,
Ok so I start up the remote server on my windows 7 desktop after typing in my server's ip address, but serviio doesn't want to start after I've put in the ip address thing

Where did you type in the IP Address?

On your windows machine, you will want -Dserviio.remoteHost=SERVER_IP in your C:\Program Files (x86)\Serviio\bin\ServiioConsole.exe.vmoptions file

You should only need to user the bind IP address field in the console if you have two network cards on your server (but you need to get the console to point at the server before you can set that)

You could always install one of the webui's, they are perfect for headless servers viewforum.php?f=17

I have a sshfs mount to my dns and serviio when installed as a service in ubuntu/xubuntu no longer read files from that mount. I had to add "-o allow_other" to the sshfs mount options. Then it worked.