PMServ - PS3 Media Server Linux Distribution

[Joksi]

Maybe you could add the commands below in the first post so that others could easily spot the findings we have made?

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wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5331377/mencoder-mt.tar.gz
sudo yast2 -i libpng12-0 libjpeg6 libass4 libmad0 libbz2-devel liba52-0 libbs2b0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libbz2.so /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/liba52.so.0 /usr/lib64/liba52-0.7.4.so
mv /usr/bin/mencoder /usr/mencoder
ln /usr/bin/mencoder-mt /usr/bin/mencoder


[Joksi]

Could someone take a look at the below?
This is running "top" when the server is idling. It only happens now and then, mostly it idles at ~0% but 50% seem wrong!
It look like Java is up to something weird...

top - 19:01:32 up 8 min, 1 user, load average: 0.81, 0.45, 0.21
Tasks: 91 total, 1 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 49.8%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 50.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2046852k total, 991288k used, 1055564k free, 7436k buffers
Swap: 2095100k total, 0k used, 2095100k free, 279536k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1759 pms 20 0 1357m 655m 14m S 100 32.8 1:20.25 java
2195 root 20 0 17088 1212 896 R 0 0.1 0:00.05 top
1 root 20 0 12408 772 632 S 0 0.0 0:00.46 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd

[vyrticul]

sorry, got pretty busy and didn't have much time to do a whole lot of anything. Thought I would just get the new version out the door and save people the hassle.

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version 0.3.1 (02/26/2011)
  [+] Multithreaded mencoder (2+ core users rejoice), install using the command `enable-mencoder-mt`. (64-bit only) (thanks Joksi for your testing)
  [*] Fixed typo in Transmission init.d script


[Joksi]

No problems.
If I would want to update to the latest version, do I have to reinstall the server?
I'm asking also for future upgrades, because I have made some modifications and likewise that are going to be wiped out when the yast2 live-installer repartitions all the disks! Ie PSM config file, installed SNMPd, changed config files to move /shared to /home on it's own partitions and so on...

[vyrticul]

You can customize the installation so that it doesn't repartition all disks/partitions. Although you would still need to repartition the main partition and re-install any additional applications and config files you've done. So it can still be a pain.

Right now the only thing stopping me from allowing you to roll with the updates is to have a repo setup so that you can update some packages.

openSUSE 11.4 is coming out soon, so maybe what I'll do starting with PMServ based on 11.4, is make a repo for PMServ and make it so you can just roll with the updates instead of having to re-install. This way the only time you would need to do a complete installation is if you want to upgrade the version of openSUSE as new versions are released and PMServ is updated for them.

[maxcovergold]

Hiya, just wondering if this supports renderer .conf file aka the windows build? So that I can get other devices to play media. Cheers

[vyrticul]

Yes it does, just put them in: /opt/ps3mediaserver/renderers/

[maxcovergold]

great stuff. I edited the bravia ex .conf file so as to include me ex403 and it deffinately sees it alright now. And .avi's are working brilliantly, with scaling working well. However I can't seem to load the .mkv files. It sees them from the tele and seems to start loading them fine, then I get some info at the top of the screen and then the play sign on the tele comes up but followed immediately by the pause icon. I tried to used the .conf file I use when running succesfully in windows and I get the same thing. It chooses different encodes but no matter what I select including the options in transcode folder, I get the same result. Any ideas?

Thought maybe it might not be letting if buffer enough, however when running from windows it doesn't normally take that long to start playing a 720p .mkv file
fyi, movie info for MPC: Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x528 23.98fps [English (Video 1)]
Audio: DTS 48000Hz 6ch [Undetermined (Audio 1)] audio also appears as dca using another tool

[thomascooper4]

Hey all,
Must say this is one of the coolest applications of Linux I have come across (although I am still sort of a linux noob, and have only used ubuntu). I was messing around with this on an old comp I am using as a home server and I would like to add print server capabilities to this setup. Is there an easy way to have the server broadcast and share its printer through command line? All the tutorials I am coming across for opensuse are requiring me to have a gui. Thanks for the help.

[vyrticul]

Thanks thomascooper4, always nice to hear when people enjoy pmserv.

As for your printer sharing, you'll want to install CUPS:

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sudo yast2 -i cups


then edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. Change the following global config options:

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[global]
load printers = yes
printing = CUPS
printcap name = CUPS


and then add a printers section:

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[printers]
path = /tmp
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
browseable = no


That's the basic gist of it, at least it's a push in the right direction.