Easy setup guide for Ubuntu / Debian (DEB packages and repo)

[phantoms]

It works fine for those that already have it installed with 12.04 and upgrade to 12.10, just not the PPA (yet).

[happy.neko]

PS3 Media Server version 1.70.0 is up for Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 via repository.

[dafior01]

Oh. Not good. PMS 1.6 was with issues, but this 1.7 very problematic. However described as revolution ...


Only avi files video works. With mkv big issues and the same with m2ts. TsMuxeR failed at all ...

If you are on 12.04 U - better hold on with these versions ...

Strange is how many errors/defects reported. Looks that version 1.7 needs to be Beta. Not official release.

The best described above problem is described on Issue 1532: There is no inputstream to return for any mkv [tsMuxeR]

Hope that will be fixed soon ...

[happy.neko]

Strange. I have zero issues with tsmuxer on 12.10.
Please follow viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5718

[happy.neko]

Ubuntu packages for ps3mediaserver 1.71.0 are up.

As usual do

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ps3mediaserver

or wait for Update manager notification.

[Leslie]

I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 server (headless) and I can't get PMS to work at all. I don't know what I'm doing wrong...

1 - Since the server is headless, I can not initially run it in 'GUI' mode. Running as a daemon doesn't work. It looks like it crashes immediately.
2 - I can run /usr/bin/ps3mediaserver and it seems to run just fine

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PMS_START="yes"
PMS_USER="ps3ms"
PMS_PROFILE="/home/$PMS_USER/.config/ps3mediaserver"

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leslie@mediaserver:~$ sudo start ps3mediaserver
ps3mediaserver start/running, process 6469
leslie@mediaserver:~$ sudo status ps3mediaserver
ps3mediaserver stop/waiting

Running like this doesnt give me any files in "/var/log/ps3mediaserver" as well..

[Leslie]

I was poking around and found the following lines in the /var/log/upstart/ps3mediaserver.log

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Error occurred during initialization of VM
Too small initial heap
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Too small initial heap


Apparently this is a java problem, but doesnt explain why it works when manually running from /usr/bin

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java version "1.7.0_09"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.3.3) (7u9-2.3.3-0ubuntu1~12.10.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.2-b09, mixed mode)


[Leslie]

Well, I fixed the problem. Turns out that a line in the file /etc/default/ps3mediaserver was incorrect:

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PS3MS_MEM="xxx"


This was passing an incorrect value (which defaults to kb) of memory for the JVM. I fixed it by making this small change:

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PS3MS_MEM="1536m"


[happy.neko]

Well, I fixed the problem. Turns out that a line in the file /etc/default/ps3mediaserver was incorrect:

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PS3MS_MEM="xxx"


This was passing an incorrect value (which defaults to kb) of memory for the JVM. I fixed it by making this small change:

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PS3MS_MEM="1536m"


Very strange. PS3MS_MEM="768M" should be default value in /etc/default/ps3mediaserver after install.

[codycook]

Also having trouble with libc6 saying i have the newest which is 2.11.3-3

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root@nas4free:/downloadtmp# apt-get install libc6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libc6 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@nas4free:/downloadtmp#


What should I do in this case?

I had this same problem. It does not appear that debian sid or debian wheezy come with libc6, therefore, it makes it almost impossible to install now (1.71). I was able to install PMS 1.50 using a different instruction... I would really like to be able to compile this using libc6 2.13 because that's all I can find for my wheezy installation.
Could someone shine some more light on this, please?