Installing PMS on NAS (Synology DS-207+)

[Topguy]

Based on the information from Majito I think you can forget any HD-transcoding on any of them. Infact I dont think you will get transcoding of DVD-size video either.
The CPU should be good enough to handle audio-transcoding (flac, aac, ogg) to PCM.

The 64MB memory on the DNS-323 is very limiting, you probably want to retain the normal functionality of the device while adding PMS and that does not leave much space for java.

128MB on the other systems feels a little better but its not much to play with either.

[arthur5five]

Hi,

Mine is a Synology DS209+ with 800MHz CPU and 512MB RAM. I assume that should be enough for PMS.

Though I tried to follow the ongoing conversation between You guys, it is still unclear to me whether I could install PMS on my DS-209+ and how could I do that?
What packages do You think I should install, in which order?

To be honest, the built-in Synology Media Server lacks some compatibility with my PS3, not to mention its strangely slow indexing/reindexing capabilities.

Thank You!

Arthur

[Topguy]

Hi,

Mine is a Synology DS209+ with 800MHz CPU and 512MB RAM. I assume that should be enough for PMS.

What packages do You think I should install, in which order?

Arthur

The DS209 should have enough punch to use a lot of PMS features. At least in theory.

Start with a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) that is compatible with Sun's Java SE 1.6
Next step would be to install "ffmpeg" which PMS uses to inspect media-files.

[atrem]

Hi guys, just a quick update.

I tried the new version 1.10.1 (thanks shagrath, great job ).

'gconfpeer not found' message has disappeared

This is what I get when I type ./PMS.sh now:

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GUI environment no available
Switching to console mode
[main] TRACE 01:27:57.645 Starting Java PS3 Media Server v1.10.1
[main] TRACE 01:27:57.984 by shagrath / 2008-2009
[main] TRACE 01:27:57.987 http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com
[main] TRACE 01:27:57.989 http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver
[main] TRACE 01:27:57.992
[main] TRACE 01:27:57.995 Java 1.5.0-GNU Classpath
[main] TRACE 01:27:57.997 OS Linux arm 2.6.15
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.000 Encoding: 8859_1
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.014 Temp folder: /tmp/javaps3media
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.075 Registering transcoding engine FFmpeg Audio
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.094 Registering transcoding engine MEncoder
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.099 Registering transcoding engine MPlayer Audio
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.105 Registering transcoding engine MEncoder Web
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.111 Registering transcoding engine MPlayer Video Dump
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.116 Registering transcoding engine MPlayer Web
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.125 Registering transcoding engine TsMuxer
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.130 Registering transcoding engine Audio High Fidelity
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.138 Registering transcoding engine VideoLan Audio Streaming
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.141 Registering transcoding engine VideoLan Video Streaming
[main] TRACE 01:27:58.146 Registering transcoding engine Raws Thumbnailer
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.201 Scanning network interface eth0 / eth0
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.211 java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.214    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.217    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:367)
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.220    at jamvm.java.lang.JarLauncher.main(JarLauncher.java:50)
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.223 Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: isLoopback
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.226    at net.pms.util.PMSUtil.isNetworkInterfaceLoopback(PMSUtil.java:29)
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.229    at net.pms.network.HTTPServer.start(HTTPServer.java:77)
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.232    at net.pms.PMS.init(PMS.java:358)
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.235    at net.pms.PMS.get(PMS.java:865)
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.238    at net.pms.PMS.main(PMS.java:927)
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.241    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
[main] TRACE 01:27:59.244    ...2 more

Now I wonder what '2 more' means .... we're almost there?

P.S. I had already installed ffmpeg through ipkg.
According to the README I also compiled and installed Mplayer/Mencoder (1.0rc1-3.4.3) from svn.
(it takes forever to compile and comes with lots of warnings).
Even downloaded and unpacked the binary codec packages from the Mplayer website.

[shagrath]

cause you are running in Java1.5, and not 1.6
you should build yourself a compatible 1.5 release, with the OSX ant script

[atrem]

cause you are running in Java1.5, and not 1.6
you should build yourself a compatible 1.5 release, with the OSX ant script

Thanks for looking into it shagrath, I'll see if I can get Java 1.6 into the NAS.
BTW. ....OSX ant script....this is the Linux board

[iweb]

I am in the same boat as others and hoping one day the PMS can run on DNS-323.
With the latest DTS Streaming working in 1.10, there is no needs to transcode anything for me. Even if I need to transcode some of the files (e.g. RMVB etc... not natively support by PS3), I can always setup another instance of PMS on a PC that will be used for transcoding.

[the_stalli0n]

Re: Ant

Is this what you're talking about? http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html

[the_stalli0n]

Hey Atrem -- are you still using JamVM to run the pms.jar?

I just started messing around with my Linkstation Mini, and tried to run pms.jar using jamvm (tried 1.5.1 stable and 1.5.2 unstable), but ran into some errors.
Not sure what they mean, but maybe someone can help?

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Expected reflection field doesn't exist
at java.lang.VMClass.getDeclaredConstructors(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:430)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:1116)
at java.util.logging.LogManager.createInstance(LogManager.java:854)
at java.util.logging.LogManager.readConfiguration(LogManager.java:571)
at java.util.logging.LogManager.readConfiguration(LogManager.java:527)
at java.util.logging.LogManager.initLogManager(LogManager.java:203)
at java.util.logging.LogManager.getLogManager(LogManager.java:168)
at java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:252)
at java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:211)
at java.util.logging.Logger$1.run(Logger.java:94)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:96)
at java.util.logging.Logger.<clinit>(Logger.java:90)
at gnu.java.util.jar.JarUtils.<clinit>(JarUtils.java:65)
at java.util.jar.Manifest.read(Manifest.java:162)
at java.util.jar.Manifest.<init>(Manifest.java:89)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.readManifest(JarFile.java:303)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:202)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:181)
at jamvm.java.lang.JarLauncher.main(JarLauncher.java:33)

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Any ideas? thanks!!!

[atrem]

Hey Atrem -- are you still using JamVM to run the pms.jar?

I did, but it's java 1.5 and PMS requires 1.6.
I gave up on trying to build 1.6 into my NAS, it's way too complicated for me. OpenJDK needs ant, ant needs Java, etc.
I'll wait for the ipkg .