Installing PMS on NAS (Synology DS-207+)

[the_stalli0n]

The server is indeed slow on the NAS, but suitable enough for simple things like music and photo's.
I also noticed that the server seems to 'disappear' from the PS3, when it encounters non-fatal but severe errors.
Like when I try to listen to internet radio (see a couple of mssgs above).

I still haven't had the chance to do enough testing and fooling around, but i'm a little disappointed in the performance of my NAS.

MP3s, Photos and even videos (not transcoded) all work fine, but actually getting to them takes forever -- indexing the files/folders is just too slow (usechace is enabled, thumbnails disabled). Somewhat related: viewing comics archives (CBR and CBZs) doesn't work so great either. In addition to indexing the files, there's the huge cost of extracting them. I tried various Web feeds, but none seemed to work -- mostly got the same mkfifo errors that you mentioned...

Oh well... at least i know that the setup works in theory, and i have a better idea of how much power is needed for a server like this...

[Lampei]

Hi all,
Does anyone know if the Synology DS-109j is powerful enough to run this?

[chrisnasah]

HI,

I just got a linstation LS-XHL pro... does this work on this... any installation procedure for this... will it transcode at all?

[chrisnasah]

Guys,

I just got the specs of LS-XHL:


MemTotal: 255772 kB
CPU: 1.2Ghz

I believe this should be powerful enough to handle PMS??

Any thoughts?

[fragze]

Hi,

I was trying Atrem's method on my DS-209. It's great, detailed thank You!
Everything worked fine BUT it seems I'm not able to run jamvm.
When I try to execute the modified PMS.sh script I get Segmentation fault (core dumped) error...
If I try to run pms.jar separately (jamv -jar pms.jar) I get the same error message.

Anybody else run into the same problem on DS-209? Or anybody here who has managed to make PMS work DS-209?

Thank You!

Arthur

I have the exact same problem, anybody who can help ?

[chrisnasah]

Guys,

I just got the specs of LS-XHL:


MemTotal: 255772 kB
CPU: 1.2Ghz

I believe this should be powerful enough to handle PMS??

Any thoughts?

Guys any comments on this.... do you think this will be powerful enough to transcode on the fly or will it be waste of time.

Thanks

[meskibob]

Guys,

I just got the specs of LS-XHL:


MemTotal: 255772 kB
CPU: 1.2Ghz

I believe this should be powerful enough to handle PMS??

Any thoughts?

Guys any comments on this.... do you think this will be powerful enough to transcode on the fly or will it be waste of time.

Thanks

For anyone intereseted, here is the full Marvel CPU spec for LS-XHL: http://www.marvell.com/files/products/e ... 4_ver1.pdf
With that in mind (256772KB DDR2 and 1.2GHz with 16bit@800MHz), I'd say good luck trying to get any HD transcoding on that, although maybe SD. Remuxing may be possible.

[chrisnasah]

hi guys am at this stage and getting the same issue how do i do the below can anyone give a simple step by step on what i need to do as i dont know linux at all and followed all the steps before mentioned in this topic.

Thanks

Hi guys,

Followed the steps in this post, overwrote the files in the (svn) PMS folder with the files from Omega's zipfile, installed the linux version (pms-linux-1.20) created by ant on my NAS....AND GUESS WHAT....IT WORKS! Great work Omega
My PS3 now sees PMS and I'm able to watch photo's and listen to mp3's stored on the NAS. Didn't check (lowres) video yet.

But...what doesn't work is listening to internet radio.
The only reason why I started this effort btw.
To find an easy way of listening to my (icecast) radiostation, broadcasting standalone from the same NAS(!), on my ps3.

I get this error when I try to listen to my station:

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Toolkit error: Cannot load AWT toolkit: gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit
GUI environment no available
Switching to console mode
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.864 Starting Java PS3 Media Server v1.20
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.872 by shagrath / 2008-2009
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.874 http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.876 http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.879
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.881 Java 1.5.0-GNU Classpath
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.884 OS Linux arm 2.6.15
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.886 Encoding: 8859_1
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.898 Temp folder: /tmp/javaps3media
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.916 Loading configuration file: Bravia5500.conf
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.964 Loading configuration file: Bravia4500.conf
[main] TRACE 22:14:25.999 Loading configuration file: Samsung.conf
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.033 Loading configuration file: PS3.conf
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.071 Loading configuration file: FreeboxHD.conf
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.109 Loading configuration file: PopcornHour.conf
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.144 Loading configuration file: XBOX360.conf
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.721 Registering transcoding engine FFmpeg Audio
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.739 Registering transcoding engine MEncoder
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.745 Registering transcoding engine MPlayer Audio
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.750 Registering transcoding engine MEncoder Web
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.755 Registering transcoding engine MPlayer Video Dump
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.760 Registering transcoding engine MPlayer Web
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.769 Registering transcoding engine TsMuxer
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.773 Registering transcoding engine Audio High Fidelity
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.780 Registering transcoding engine VideoLan Audio Streaming
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.783 Registering transcoding engine VideoLan Video Streaming
[main] TRACE 22:14:26.788 Registering transcoding engine Raws Thumbnailer
[main] TRACE 22:14:27.858 Using address [blabla]
[main] TRACE 22:14:27.863 Created socket: [blabla]
[Thread-1] TRACE 22:14:27.890 Starting DLNA Server on host [blabla] and port [blabla]...
[main] TRACE 22:14:27.898 Using database located at : /volume1/tmp/pms-linux-1.20/database
[main] TRACE 22:14:38.604 Using following UUID: 98601847-ba7d-42b2-9623-a4401a632fcb
[Thread-1] TRACE 22:14:38.972 Receiving a request from: [blabla]
[Thread-8] TRACE 22:14:40.368 Media renderer was not recognized. HTTP User agent :Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; UPnP/1.0; Windows NT/5.1)
[main] TRACE 22:14:43.298 It's ready! You should see the server appears on XMB
[Thread-1] TRACE 22:14:58.591 Receiving a request from: [blabla]
[Thread-46] TRACE 22:15:35.612 Starting transcode/remux of Atrem's NAS Radio (local)
[mplayer] TRACE 22:15:35.785 [mplayer] 22:15:35.782 Fatal error in process starting: : /tmp/javaps3media/mplayer_aud1246911335615
[mkfifo] TRACE 22:15:41.833 Process mkfifo has a return code of -6! Maybe an error occured... check the log file

I dunno if it's caused by PMS or something else (mplayer?)

I can't check the logfile because Omega turned debugging off.
When I change debugging back on in PMS.java, ANT doesn't create output (Filewriter error).

Any ideas what this 'mkfifo return code -6' means?

[chrisnasah]

Hi guys, i installed the latest PMS and i am getting the error below... can anyone help out.
I cant see the PMS on my sony Bravia as yet
Thanks

Toolkit error: Cannot load AWT toolkit: gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit
GUI environment no available
Switching to console mode
[main] TRACE 11:45:30.694 Starting Java PS3 Media Server v1.11.356
[main] TRACE 11:45:30.727 by shagrath / 2008-2009
[main] TRACE 11:45:30.730 http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com
[main] TRACE 11:45:30.732 http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver
[main] TRACE 11:45:30.735
[main] TRACE 11:45:30.738 Java 1.5.0-GNU Classpath
[main] TRACE 11:45:30.741 OS Linux ppc 2.4.22-uc0
[main] TRACE 11:45:30.744 Encoding: 8859_1
[main] TRACE 11:45:30.769 Temp folder: /tmp/javaps3media
[main] TRACE 11:45:30.800 Loading configuration file: XBMC.conf
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.013 Loading configuration file: Bravia5500.conf
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.060 Loading configuration file: FreeboxHD.conf
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.104 Loading configuration file: XBOX360.conf
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.146 Loading configuration file: PS3.conf
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.195 Loading configuration file: PopcornHour.conf
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.240 Loading configuration file: Samsung.conf
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.283 Loading configuration file: Bravia4500.conf
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.495 Registering transcoding engine FFmpeg Audio
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.530 Registering transcoding engine MEncoder
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.537 Registering transcoding engine MPlayer Audio
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.544 Registering transcoding engine MEncoder Web
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.551 Registering transcoding engine MPlayer Video Dump
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.556 Registering transcoding engine MPlayer Web
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.568 Registering transcoding engine TsMuxer
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.573 Registering transcoding engine Audio High Fidelity
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.582 Registering transcoding engine VideoLan Audio Streaming
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.585 Registering transcoding engine VideoLan Video Streaming
[main] TRACE 11:45:31.592 Registering transcoding engine Raws Thumbnailer
[main] TRACE 11:45:33.613 Scanning network interface lo / lo
[main] TRACE 11:45:33.640 Scanning network interface eth0 / eth0
[main] TRACE 11:45:33.648 Using address /192.168.1.5 found on network interface: name: eth0 (eth0) addresses: /192.168.1.5;
[main] TRACE 11:45:33.660 Created socket: /192.168.1.5:5001
[main] TRACE 11:45:37.198 Switching to random UUID cause there's an error in getting UUID from MAC address: getHardwareAddress
[main] TRACE 11:45:37.205 Using following UUID: 233527de-4c98-451a-8d0e-61b5cc69c202
[main] TRACE 11:45:42.134 It's ready! You should see the server appears on XMB
[Thread-2] TRACE 11:48:12.916 Sending BYEBYE...

[chrisnasah]

right... i believe my output is same as everyone and i probaly need to edit my pms.conf like the_stalli0n did but no clue where that file is.

am nearly there just need the last bit of guidance