minidlna problems

[HnLn]

Hi there,

I installed minidlna on a stripped down b3 and changed the config file to point to my own video's dir (which is in a /home/user dir). The server shows up fine when I open e.g. windows media player but it has no files listed.

When I did a minidlna -d -R I could see it adding files.

Possible problems:
- the folder is a subfolder in a samba share ?
- some of the files are incomplete (it's a torrent download dir as well).
- in the log file I see errors for the incomplete files and something like this " WARNING: Inotify max_user_watches [8192] is low or close to the ..."

Could this cause the issue or are there other settings I should look at ? All files seem to have +r for all.

Tnx,

HnLn

[jallee]

This is how i do.

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/etc/init.d/minidlna stop

Edit /etc/minidlna.conf with your preferred dirs.

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nano /etc/minidlna.conf

Remove old dlna db..

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rm /var/lib/minidlna/files.db

Then start minidlna.

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/etc/init.d/minidlna start

Then check the log..

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tail -f /var/log/minidlna.log

Hope this helps..

[HnLn]

Tnx for the feedback, eventually I got it working (not sure how though .

Some new questions though:

* minidlna is supposed to support subtitles ? I give them the same name as the video file but they don't seem to be picked up.
* thumbnails for video are not generated by minidlna, is there a package or script for this on a full bubba install (mine is stripped) ?

Tnx

[jallee]

* minidlna is supposed to support subtitles ? I give them the same name as the video file but they don't seem to be picked up.

Check her http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/forums it should work.

* thumbnails for video are not generated by minidlna, is there a package or script for this on a full bubba install (mine is stripped) ?
Tnx

I use this http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=39342.