[arch-general] minidlna problems

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Peter Nabbefeld

4 Dec 2016 4 Dec '16

1:08 p.m.

Hello, I've installed minidlna (community/minidlna 1.1.6-1), but cannot access any files. When I access it on port 8200, statistics count some audio files, but those are videos (mp4). I also cannot see a list of the files (well, I even don't know, if this would be expected behaviour). If I try to connect via UPnP using VLC, I cannot even see any file. Portscan detected port 8200 listening, but neither 80 nor 1900. So, I do have some questions: - Why are my mp4 files recognized as audio files? - Is minidlna expected t oshow a list of files in its DB somewhere? - How can I detect minidlna working correctly? Kind regards Peter

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Peter Nabbefeld

4 Dec 4 Dec

1:17 p.m.

For port 1900, I did incorrect port scanning, as it uses UDP, and it is present. - P. Am 04.12.2016 um 14:08 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld:

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Hello,

I've installed minidlna (community/minidlna 1.1.6-1), but cannot access any files. When I access it on port 8200, statistics count some audio files, but those are videos (mp4). I also cannot see a list of the files (well, I even don't know, if this would be expected behaviour). If I try to connect via UPnP using VLC, I cannot even see any file. Portscan detected port 8200 listening, but neither 80 nor 1900.

So, I do have some questions: - Why are my mp4 files recognized as audio files? - Is minidlna expected t oshow a list of files in its DB somewhere? - How can I detect minidlna working correctly?

Kind regards Peter

SET

2:55 p.m.

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So, I do have some questions: - Why are my mp4 files recognized as audio files? - Is minidlna expected t oshow a list of files in its DB somewhere? - How can I detect minidlna working correctly?

Kind regards Peter

I didn't have any success with the stock minidlna.service file, which I disabled. I'm using this one : ************************************************************* [Unit] Description=PostBoot Minidlna Requires=network.target After=network.target [Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/usr/bin/minidlnad -R User=minidlna [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ************************************************************* According to comments I read somewhere, it's not considered safe ! Please note you'll have to create an unprivileged user that owns all files. As for VLC, UPnP browsing is just broken in 2.x. It seems this module is completely re-written in 3.x, not yet out. Regards.

Peter Nabbefeld

4:10 p.m.

Thank You for Your answer. Could You recommend me some other dlna client then? Kind regards Peter Am 04.12.2016 um 15:55 schrieb SET:

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So, I do have some questions: - Why are my mp4 files recognized as audio files? - Is minidlna expected t oshow a list of files in its DB somewhere? - How can I detect minidlna working correctly?

Kind regards Peter

I didn't have any success with the stock minidlna.service file, which I disabled.

I'm using this one :

************************************************************* [Unit] Description=PostBoot Minidlna Requires=network.target After=network.target

[Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/usr/bin/minidlnad -R User=minidlna

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target *************************************************************

According to comments I read somewhere, it's not considered safe ! Please note you'll have to create an unprivileged user that owns all files.

As for VLC, UPnP browsing is just broken in 2.x. It seems this module is completely re-written in 3.x, not yet out.

Regards.

SET

4:44 p.m.

Le 4 décembre 2016 17:10:33 GMT+01:00, Peter Nabbefeld a écrit :

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Thank You for Your answer. Could You recommend me some other dlna client then?

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The wiki page refered to above mentions Totem and Kodi. You could try your luck, didn 't test them. I find it more comfortable to watch UPnP streams on my Android phone.

SET

3:04 p.m.

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Please note you'll have to create an unprivileged user that owns all files.

Please note you'll have to create an unprivileged user that can read all files.

Mike Cloaked

4:03 p.m.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:

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Hello,

I've installed minidlna (community/minidlna 1.1.6-1), but cannot access any files. When I access it on port 8200, statistics count some audio files, but those are videos (mp4). I also cannot see a list of the files (well, I even don't know, if this would be expected behaviour). If I try to connect via UPnP using VLC, I cannot even see any file. Portscan detected port 8200 listening, but neither 80 nor 1900.

So, I do have some questions: - Why are my mp4 files recognized as audio files? - Is minidlna expected t oshow a list of files in its DB somewhere? - How can I detect minidlna working correctly?

It took me a while to get minidlna going (though I run it on an

archlinuxarm machine) - and it is referred to with a different name in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ReadyMedia There are a number of things that have to be set right to make it work - the permissions on directories including the home directory of the user where the files are stored need to be set to allow the non-root user running minidlna to access the files with the media. eg in my case on my little media server: $ ls -l /home total 8 drwx------ 2 alarm alarm 4096 Feb 22 2016 alarm drwxr-xr-x 6 mike mike 4096 Jun 6 20:57 mike then the minidlna.service file is: $ cat /etc/systemd/system/minidlna.service [Unit] Description=minidlna server After=network.target [Service] Type=simple User=minidlna Group=minidlna ExecStart=/usr/bin/minidlnad -S ProtectSystem=full ProtectHome=read-only PrivateDevices=on NoNewPrivileges=on [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target and this service is started in my case with a systemd timer to avoid startup timing issues on the small SoC on which this runs. Then the minidlna conf file is: $ cat /etc/minidlna.conf # port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic port=8200 # network interfaces to serve, comma delimited #network_interface=eth0 network_interface=eth0 # specify the user account name or uid to run as user=minidlna #user=mike # set this to the directory you want scanned. # * if you want multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines # * if you want to restrict a media_dir to specific content types, you # can prepend the types, followed by a comma, to the directory: # + "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music) # + "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos) # + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures) # + "PV" for pictures and video (eg. media_dir=PV,/home/jmaggard/digital_camera) #media_dir=/opt media_dir=A,/home/mike/Music/ media_dir=P,/home/mike/Pictures/ media_dir=V,/home/mike/Videos/ # set this to merge all media_dir base contents into the root container # note: the default is no #merge_media_dirs=no # set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients #friendly_name=My DLNA Server friendly_name=Odroid Media Server # set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache #db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna # set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file #log_dir=/var/log # set this to change the verbosity of the information that is logged # each section can use a different level: off, fatal, error, warn, info, or debug #log_level=general,artwork,database,inotify,scanner,metadata,http,ssdp,tivo=warn # this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art # note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/") album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg # set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files # note: the default is yes inotify=yes # set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO enable_tivo=no # set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards. # * This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images, # which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products. strict_dlna=no # default presentation url is http address on port 80 #presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php # notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds. notify_interval=900 # serial and model number the daemon will report to clients # in its XML description serial=12345678 model_number=1 # specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket #minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock # use different container as root of the tree # possible values: # + "." - use standard container (this is the default) # + "B" - "Browse Directory" # + "M" - "Music" # + "V" - "Video" # + "P" - "Pictures" # + Or, you can specify the ObjectID of your desired root container (eg. 1$F for Music/Playlists) # if you specify "B" and client device is audio-only then "Music/Folders" will be used as root #root_container=. # always force SortCriteria to this value, regardless of the SortCriteria passed by the client #force_sort_criteria=+upnp:class,+upnp:originalTrackNumber,+dc:title # maximum number of simultaneous connections # note: many clients open several simultaneous connections while streaming #max_connections=50 Maybe you might see some settings that are different in your setup compared to mine that may make a difference. In my case the minidlna server runs as user minidlna - and the other important thing is the permissions/ownership on the associated var files: $ ls -ld /var/cache/minidlna drwxr-xr-x 3 minidlna minidlna 4096 Jun 4 2016 /var/cache/minidlna $ ls -l /var/cache/minidlna/ total 1332 drwxr-xr-x 3 minidlna minidlna 4096 Jun 4 2016 art_cache -rw-r--r-- 1 minidlna minidlna 1355776 Dec 1 17:46 files.db Mike -- mike c

Peter Nabbefeld

4:19 p.m.

Hello Mike, I cannot find any important differences between Your files and mine. I've tested VLC, and if this is broken, the test doesn't have any relevance, so I need some other client first. Kind regards Peter Am 04.12.2016 um 17:03 schrieb Mike Cloaked via arch-general:

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On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:

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Hello,

I've installed minidlna (community/minidlna 1.1.6-1), but cannot access any files. When I access it on port 8200, statistics count some audio files, but those are videos (mp4). I also cannot see a list of the files (well, I even don't know, if this would be expected behaviour). If I try to connect via UPnP using VLC, I cannot even see any file. Portscan detected port 8200 listening, but neither 80 nor 1900.

So, I do have some questions: - Why are my mp4 files recognized as audio files? - Is minidlna expected t oshow a list of files in its DB somewhere? - How can I detect minidlna working correctly?

It took me a while to get minidlna going (though I run it on an

archlinuxarm machine) - and it is referred to with a different name in the wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ReadyMedia

There are a number of things that have to be set right to make it work - the permissions on directories including the home directory of the user where the files are stored need to be set to allow the non-root user running minidlna to access the files with the media.

eg in my case on my little media server:

$ ls -l /home total 8 drwx------ 2 alarm alarm 4096 Feb 22 2016 alarm drwxr-xr-x 6 mike mike 4096 Jun 6 20:57 mike

then the minidlna.service file is: $ cat /etc/systemd/system/minidlna.service [Unit] Description=minidlna server After=network.target

[Service] Type=simple User=minidlna Group=minidlna ExecStart=/usr/bin/minidlnad -S ProtectSystem=full ProtectHome=read-only PrivateDevices=on NoNewPrivileges=on

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

and this service is started in my case with a systemd timer to avoid startup timing issues on the small SoC on which this runs.

Then the minidlna conf file is: $ cat /etc/minidlna.conf # port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic port=8200

# network interfaces to serve, comma delimited #network_interface=eth0

network_interface=eth0

# specify the user account name or uid to run as

user=minidlna

#user=mike

# set this to the directory you want scanned.

# * if you want multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines # * if you want to restrict a media_dir to specific content types, you

# can prepend the types, followed by a comma, to the directory:

# + "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)

# + "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)

# + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)

# + "PV" for pictures and video (eg. media_dir=PV,/home/jmaggard/digital_camera) #media_dir=/opt media_dir=A,/home/mike/Music/ media_dir=P,/home/mike/Pictures/ media_dir=V,/home/mike/Videos/

# set this to merge all media_dir base contents into the root container # note: the default is no #merge_media_dirs=no

# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients #friendly_name=My DLNA Server

friendly_name=Odroid Media Server

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache #db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna

db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file #log_dir=/var/log

# set this to change the verbosity of the information that is logged # each section can use a different level: off, fatal, error, warn, info, or debug #log_level=general,artwork,database,inotify,scanner,metadata,http,ssdp,tivo=warn

# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art # note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/") album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg

# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files # note: the default is yes inotify=yes

# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO enable_tivo=no

# set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards. # * This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images, # which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products. strict_dlna=no

# default presentation url is http address on port 80 #presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php

# notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds. notify_interval=900

# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients # in its XML description serial=12345678 model_number=1

# specify the path to the MiniSSDPd socket #minissdpdsocket=/var/run/minissdpd.sock

# use different container as root of the tree # possible values: # + "." - use standard container (this is the default) # + "B" - "Browse Directory" # + "M" - "Music" # + "V" - "Video" # + "P" - "Pictures" # + Or, you can specify the ObjectID of your desired root container (eg. 1$F for Music/Playlists) # if you specify "B" and client device is audio-only then "Music/Folders" will be used as root #root_container=.

# always force SortCriteria to this value, regardless of the SortCriteria passed by the client #force_sort_criteria=+upnp:class,+upnp:originalTrackNumber,+dc:title

# maximum number of simultaneous connections # note: many clients open several simultaneous connections while streaming #max_connections=50

Maybe you might see some settings that are different in your setup compared to mine that may make a difference. In my case the minidlna server runs as user minidlna - and the other important thing is the permissions/ownership on the associated var files:

$ ls -ld /var/cache/minidlna drwxr-xr-x 3 minidlna minidlna 4096 Jun 4 2016 /var/cache/minidlna $ ls -l /var/cache/minidlna/ total 1332 drwxr-xr-x 3 minidlna minidlna 4096 Jun 4 2016 art_cache -rw-r--r-- 1 minidlna minidlna 1355776 Dec 1 17:46 files.db

Mike

Mike Cloaked

5:17 p.m.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:

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Hello Mike,

I cannot find any important differences between Your files and mine. I've tested VLC, and if this is broken, the test doesn't have any relevance, so I need some other client first.

Kind regards Peter

In my case I can run vlc from another machine within my LAN to see the files on my media server running minidlna - one thing worth checking is that you don't have any firewall blocks for the required ports on the server. Again in my case the server is entirely within my home LAN and not visible to the wider internet, so there are less security concerns in this case than if the server was being accessed from the WAN. The version current in arch is minidlna 1.1.6-1 but perhaps the comment earlier in the thread about version 2.x is a heads-up for when the version in arch is updated in the future at some point to make sure that 2.x does support UPnP. Certainly minidlna 1.1.6-1 works fine once it is set up correctly. -- mike c

SET

6:55 p.m.

Le dimanche 4 décembre 2016 17:17:02 CET Mike Cloaked via arch-general a écrit :

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The version current in arch is minidlna 1.1.6-1 but perhaps the comment earlier in the thread about version 2.x is a heads-up for when the version in arch is updated in the future at some point to make sure that 2.x does support UPnP. Certainly minidlna 1.1.6-1 works fine once it is set up correctly.

The 2.x comment above concerns VLC, and not minidlna. I'm using the same version as yours, on ALARM too.

Mike Cloaked

10:37 p.m.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 6:55 PM, SET wrote:

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Le dimanche 4 décembre 2016 17:17:02 CET Mike Cloaked via arch-general a écrit :

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The version current in arch is minidlna 1.1.6-1 but perhaps the comment earlier in the thread about version 2.x is a heads-up for when the version in arch is updated in the future at some point to make sure that 2.x does support UPnP. Certainly minidlna 1.1.6-1 works fine once it is set up correctly.

The 2.x comment above concerns VLC, and not minidlna. I'm using the same version as yours, on ALARM too.

Current vlc in arch is version vlc 2.2.4-5, and I have just double checked that it works for UPnP - loading vlc in my desktop, and on the LAN, I can immediately connect to my minidlna server running on a little odroid-c2 machine on the same network and can play video and see the other media files on UPnP. So if there was any issue on an earlier version of 2.x it doesn't seem to be an issue currently. -- mike c

Peter Nabbefeld

5 Dec 5 Dec

9:32 a.m.

Thank You for trying to help me, but it's not been VLC which caused the problems. Also, I found some notice about VLC 2.0 not working, seems it has been fixed already. Kind regards Peter Am 04.12.2016 um 19:55 schrieb SET:

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Le dimanche 4 décembre 2016 17:17:02 CET Mike Cloaked via arch-general a écrit :

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The version current in arch is minidlna 1.1.6-1 but perhaps the comment earlier in the thread about version 2.x is a heads-up for when the version in arch is updated in the future at some point to make sure that 2.x does support UPnP. Certainly minidlna 1.1.6-1 works fine once it is set up correctly.

The 2.x comment above concerns VLC, and not minidlna. I'm using the same version as yours, on ALARM too.

Peter Nabbefeld

9:30 a.m.

Thank You - I must admit that my firewall settings have been incorrect, though I've been sure I did change them, but obviously I didn't save them or sth. else ... Kind regards Peter Am 04.12.2016 um 18:17 schrieb Mike Cloaked via arch-general:

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On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:

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Hello Mike,

I cannot find any important differences between Your files and mine. I've tested VLC, and if this is broken, the test doesn't have any relevance, so I need some other client first.

Kind regards Peter

In my case I can run vlc from another machine within my LAN to see the files on my media server running minidlna - one thing worth checking is that you don't have any firewall blocks for the required ports on the server. Again in my case the server is entirely within my home LAN and not visible to the wider internet, so there are less security concerns in this case than if the server was being accessed from the WAN.

The version current in arch is minidlna 1.1.6-1 but perhaps the comment earlier in the thread about version 2.x is a heads-up for when the version in arch is updated in the future at some point to make sure that 2.x does support UPnP. Certainly minidlna 1.1.6-1 works fine once it is set up correctly.

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