MiniDLNA 1.0.24 - 1.7 (18-Feb-2012)

[RMerlin]

Is a WDTV Live Plus capable of serving out a particular video to a device via MiniDLNA, while playing a different one locally?

The application is: a motor home with two TVs, one in the front that with WDLXTV and MiniDLNA and kids watching some show... while the adults are in the back using a different TV and DLNA client, watching a different video.

Also is there any way to synchronize one video being played locally, and being served over MiniDLNA?

MiniDLNA is totally independent from the player's playback part. Not guaranteed that the device will be fast enough to play a local file while serving a separate one over the network, it will depend on various factors.

[Bby]

Hello,
I'm using the actual version of MiniDLNA 1.0.19. I have some *.flac (lossless audio codec) files in my Music Directory (some of them with album covers). The point is that MiniDLNA stops with the scan process when it found one of these files without any error message in the log. First I thought that the files are corrupt, but with Twonky the same files are scanned correctly, also the playback works fine (PlugPlayer).
Maybe with the new version of MiniDLNA 1.0.20 (already out) this would be corrected....
Regards

I just recently installed the MiniDLNA to my box and found the same issue.
I have redirected the db and the log to the USB mounted drive but in the log the last entry is:
[2011/12/02 21:32:46] scanner.c:719: warn: Scanning /tmp/media/usb/USB1/1234ed5434/Music/
Actually the server is up and running and serve clients just the scan process halts at the first .flac file it encountered so i only see the first few dirs.
Installed versions are these:
ffmpeg 0.7.1-1.1
minidlna 1.0.21.0-1.6

Is there any update or does anyone has similar experience?

[hursey013]

I have a maxtor 250gb usb hdd hooked up to my WDLXTV (FW Base: 1.05.04, Latest version: 0.5.1.1) which is very slow to boot up. Even with the .mnt early mount option the drive isn't ready for 30+ seconds after boot. This isn't a big deal for everything except minidlna which won't recognize the device on boot since it's not mounted yet. Is there any way to delay minidlna to see this USB drive?

[RMerlin]

I have a maxtor 250gb usb hdd hooked up to my WDLXTV (FW Base: 1.05.04, Latest version: 0.5.1.1) which is very slow to boot up. Even with the .mnt early mount option the drive isn't ready for 30+ seconds after boot. This isn't a big deal for everything except minidlna which won't recognize the device on boot since it's not mounted yet. Is there any way to delay minidlna to see this USB drive?

You try disabling minidlna, and manually start it through a S99user-script located in /conf, with a delay before starting MiniDLNA. Something like this:

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#!/bin/sh
sleep 30
/tmp/init.d/S96minidlna forcestart


I wonder however how an HDD can take over 30 seconds to spinup and be ready. Are you sure it's not dying on you?

[recliq]

arg, you have beaten me on this reply, RMerlin...

[hursey013]

Thanks for the quick feedback. I guess I should have explained better - my usb hdd is fine, it actually boots up right away, I meant that when booting my wdlxtv loading up that hdd is literally the very last thing that happens during the boot process, nearly 30 sec after it starts. Here's the catch though - this only happens when I reboot through WEC - if I pull the power cable on the unit and plug it back in, the hdd is the first thing that is loaded during the boot process. I'm wondering if the hdd isn't getting fully unmounted/ejected when it restarts and that somehow throws things off? Have you seen anything like this?

[RMerlin]

Thanks for the quick feedback. I guess I should have explained better - my usb hdd is fine, it actually boots up right away, I meant that when booting my wdlxtv loading up that hdd is literally the very last thing that happens during the boot process, nearly 30 sec after it starts. Here's the catch though - this only happens when I reboot through WEC - if I pull the power cable on the unit and plug it back in, the hdd is the first thing that is loaded during the boot process. I'm wondering if the hdd isn't getting fully unmounted/ejected when it restarts and that somehow throws things off? Have you seen anything like this?

There are a few remaining issues in 0.5.1.x related to mounting/unmounting HDDs. b-rad is aware of them, and I assume it will be looked into when he resumes work on 0.5.x.x (he only got back to civilization last Friday).

The method I suggested should be able to help you then. Just play with the sleep value to find one that suits you best - this value is in seconds.

[hursey013]

I'll try it out, thanks again.

[cfawilliams]

Well done on such a great app, it's something that really expands the use of the WDTV. I only installed WDLXTV yesterday with the hope of getting MiniDLNA running so I can stream videos to my Android phone, and a tablet in the future. I'm reall

I've got an issue though that I can't resolve.

WDLXTV information
FW Base: 1.05.04
Current version: 0.5.1.1

Steps taken
1- Installed WDLXTV
2- Installed ffmpeg 0.7.1-1.1 and minidlna 1.0.21.0-1.6 through the Addons manager (great work with the web front end by the way!)
3- Using the File Manager, I copied mindlna.conf to /conf
4- I edited /conf/minidlna.conf adding "media_dir=/tmp/media/usb/USB2/1ADC8962DC893951" (do you know how I change the name of my attached USB storage to something more meaningful?)
5- I restarted the WD TV Live media player
6- After a few minutes I load up my DLNA streaming application on my Android phone (Skifta)
7- I can select "WDTVLIVE: root" as a media source
8- I can stream videos
9- After a few minutes it stops working and "WDTVLIVE: root" is no longer available as a media source. On the WDLXTV web front end, it shows that MiniDLNA is currently started.

Do you have any advice about what the problem is and why it is removed as a media source? At the moment I'm guessing it's an issue with building the db

Contents of var/minidlna.log
[1999/12/31 16:01:36] minidlna.c:897: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1.0.21 [SQLite 3.7.5].
[1999/12/31 16:01:36] minidlna.c:920: warn: Creating new database...
[1999/12/31 16:01:37] scanner.c:719: warn: Scanning /tmp/media/usb/USB2/1ADC8962DC893951
[1999/12/31 16:01:37] minidlna.c:985: warn: HTTP listening on port 8200
[1999/12/31 16:02:42] upnphttp.c:958: warn: HTTP Connection closed unexpectedly
[1999/12/31 16:03:42] upnphttp.c:958: warn: HTTP Connection closed unexpectedly
[1999/12/31 16:04:42] upnphttp.c:958: warn: HTTP Connection closed unexpectedly
[1999/12/31 16:05:42] upnphttp.c:958: warn: HTTP Connection closed unexpectedly
[1999/12/31 16:06:42] upnphttp.c:958: warn: HTTP Connection closed unexpectedly
[1999/12/31 16:07:48] upnphttp.c:958: warn: HTTP Connection closed unexpectedly
[1999/12/31 16:08:42] upnphttp.c:958: warn: HTTP Connection closed unexpectedly
[1999/12/31 16:09:42] upnphttp.c:958: warn: HTTP Connection closed unexpectedly
[1999/12/31 16:10:36] scanner.c:498: warn: Unsuccessful getting details for /tmp/media/usb/USB2/1ADC8962DC893951/TV Series/Breaking Bad/Season 3/metadata/2106591.jpg!
[1999/12/31 16:10:42] upnphttp.c:958: warn: HTTP Connection closed unexpectedly
[1999/12/31 16:11:41] upnphttp.c:958: warn: HTTP Connection closed unexpectedly

Contents of conf/minidlna.conf
# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
port=8200

# network interface to bind to (this is the only interface that will serve files)
#network_interface=eth0

# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you
# can prepend the type, followed by a comma, to the directory:
# + "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
# + "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
# + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
media_dir=/tmp/media/usb/USB2/1ADC8962DC893951

# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
#friendly_name=My DLNA Server

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its database and album art cache
#db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna

# set this if you would like to specify the directory where you want MiniDLNA to store its log file
#log_dir=/var/log

# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/")
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg

# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files
# note: the default is yes
inotify=yes

# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no

# set this to strictly adhere to DLNA standards.
# * This will allow server-side downscaling of very large JPEG images,
# which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at least) Sony DLNA products.
strict_dlna=no

# default presentation url is http address on port 80
#presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php

# notify interval in seconds. default is 895 seconds.
notify_interval=900

# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
serial=12345678
model_number=1

[Angus_NB]

Go back to the first post in the thread. Read the Known Issues.
The first one is:

You CANNOT use a location in /tmp/media/usb/USB* if you expect this to start at boot. You MUST enable early mounting (.mnt) from the webend.

Use the path /tmp/mnt/1ADC8962DC893951/

You can use direct paths to your specific media. For example:
media_dir=V,/tmp/mnt/1ADC8962DC893951/Video/
media_dir=M,/tmp/mnt/1ADC8962DC893951/Music/
media_dir=P,/tmp/mnt/1ADC8962DC893951/Photo/