What is the best media streamer for Ubuntu Server?

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Hi all,

Im running ubuntu server (headless) and need a media program to stream films to my PS3.

What is the best one to use? Is there something that can also support Blueray/hi def?

Cheers
 
Hi oxy,

Im just installed mediatomb now. Yes I think I need to set the autostart on boot, otherwise I need to manually run it by typing mediatomb into terminal.
 
Hi oxy,

Im just installed mediatomb now. Yes I think I need to set the autostart on boot, otherwise I need to manually run it by typing mediatomb into terminal.

Firstly I assume you will use windows to ssh into your linux box. Install notepad++ first.

#! /bin/sh
#
# MediaTomb initscript
#
# Original Author: Tor Krill <[email protected]>.
# Modified by: Leonhard Wimmer <[email protected]>
# Modified again by Andres Mejia <[email protected]> to
# base it off of /etc/init.d/skeleton
#
#

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: mediatomb
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop: $all
# Should-Start: $all
# Should-Stop: $all
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: upnp media server
### END INIT INFO

# Do NOT "set -e"

# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DESC="upnp media server"
NAME=mediatomb
DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
LOGFILE=/var/log/$NAME.log
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
DEFAULT=/etc/default/$NAME

# Exit if the package is not installed
[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0

# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r $DEFAULT ] && . $DEFAULT

# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
[ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS

# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

# Start the daemon if NO_START is disabled in DEFAULT
if [ "$NO_START" = "yes" ]; then
test "$1" = "start" && \
{
log_warning_msg "$NAME: Not starting $DESC."
log_warning_msg "$NAME: Disabled in $DEFAULT."
}
exit 0
fi

# Run as root if USER not specified
if [ ! $USER ]; then
USER=root
fi

# Check for an invalid user or one without a home directory
eval USERHOME=~$USER
if [ "${USERHOME#/}" = "${USERHOME}" ]; then
log_failure_msg "$NAME: The user '$USER' specified in $DEFAULT is invalid."
exit 1
fi

# Check if group is not specified and assign a proper group
if [ -z $GROUP ]; then
GROUP="$USER"
fi

if [ "$INTERFACE" != "" ] ; then
INTERFACE_ARG="-e $INTERFACE"
else
INTERFACE_ARG=""
fi

DAEMON_ARGS="-c /etc/mediatomb/config.xml -d -u $USER -g $GROUP -P $PIDFILE -l $LOGFILE $INTERFACE_ARG $OPTIONS"

#
# Function that starts the daemon/service.
#
do_start() {
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been started
# 1 if daemon was already running
# 2 if daemon could not be started
touch $PIDFILE
chown $USER:$GROUP $PIDFILE
touch $LOGFILE
chown $USER:$GROUP $LOGFILE
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON \
--test > /dev/null \
|| return 1
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \
$DAEMON_ARGS \
|| return 2
}

#
# Function that stops the daemon/service.
#
do_stop() {
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been stopped
# 1 if daemon was already stopped
# 2 if daemon could not be stopped
# other if a failure occurred
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
RETVAL="$?"
[ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
rm -f $PIDFILE
return "$RETVAL"
}

#
# Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service.
#
do_reload() {
start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
return 0
}

case "$1" in
start)
if [ -n "$INTERFACE" ]; then
# try to add the multicast route
if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then
{
log_action_begin_msg \
"$NAME: Trying to add the multicast route"
$ROUTE_ADD $INTERFACE \
&& log_action_end_msg 0
} || {
true && \
log_warning_msg "Failed to add multicast route. skipping."
}
else
$ROUTE_ADD $INTERFACE >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
fi
log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_start
case "$?" in
0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
1) log_warning_msg "$DESC" "'$NAME'" "was already started" ;;
2) log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0)
log_end_msg 0
if [ -n "$INTERFACE" ]; then
# try to add the multicast route
if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then
{
log_action_begin_msg \
"$NAME: Trying to delete the multicast route"
$ROUTE_DEL $INTERFACE \
&& log_action_end_msg 0
} || {
true && \
log_warning_msg \
"Failed to delete multicast route. skipping."
}
else
$ROUTE_DEL $INTERFACE >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
fi
;;
1) log_warning_msg "$DESC" "'$NAME'" "was already stopped" ;;
2) log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
reload|force-reload)
log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"
do_reload
log_end_msg $?
;;
restart)
#
# If the "reload" option is implemented, move the "force-reload"
# option to the "reload" entry above. If not, "force-reload" is
# just the same as "restart".
#
log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1)
sleep 1
do_start
case "$?" in
0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
*) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
esac
;;
*)
# Failed to stop
log_end_msg 1
;;
esac
;;
*)
#echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac

:

Copy and paste that into a file called mediatomb. Save to desktop, ftp it to your /home/username/ on your server.

then do:

sudo cp /home/username/mediatomb /etc/init.d/

that will copy it to the right location.

Then do:

sudo update-rc.d mediatomb defaults

Reboot it should work.

you can tell if its working by going to http://192.168.*.*:49152/

you should then be able to add your media and get it streaming.
 
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