[arch-general] minidlna problems

Peter Nabbefeld peter.nabbefeld at gmx.de
Sun Dec 4 16:19:10 UTC 2016


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:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Peter Nabbefeld <peter.nabbefeld at gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>


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