November 9, 201114 yr - apart from the parameters page accessible from the Unraid's settings page, is there a web gui for PS3 Media Server such as the Squeezebox server for example? There technically is a http interface, but honestly I think you'll be disappointed since you can't do much with it... http://{ip_address_or_hostname_of_your_unraid_server}:5001/console/home For example, if your unraid server's IP address is 192.168.1.1 then, the URL would be: http://192.168.1.1:5011/console/home - does this plugin allow for upgrades such as the Sabnzbd plugin? Not right now. I plan to release that type of functionality eventually, and even have a setting for using the latest beta version of PS3 Media Server (for the adventurous), but for now it needs more testing ... thanks! Thank you
November 11, 201114 yr Ajax, Thanks for all the hard work you've done to put this plugin together. I've run PS3 Media Server before on unRAID but shutdown the box due to space constraints. Since I've moved to a new house, I have the room and now looking at unRAID again which lead me to this plugin. I hand modified PS3.conf in renderers and changed: Supported = f:mp4 v:mp4|h264 a:ac3|aac m:video/mp4 to Supported = f:mp4|m4v v:mp4|h264 a:ac3|aac m:video/mp4 It seems as if modifications to renderers is being ignored. PS3 Media Server still wants to transcode m4v's for the PS3. The same modification on my Mac works. I know about how the web page reinstalls the package when applying changes so I've stop and started PS3 Media Server through the command line. I've also rebuilt the package to permanently make this change. Is anyone else seeing this? Thanks, Alan
November 11, 201114 yr Author Thanks for the quick reply. The majority of my movies are just in the raw form. I hadn't settled on a media player when I was ripping them, so I kept most dvds and blu-rays in their original, unaltered structure. (Vobs for dvd, .m2ts for blu-ray). in 1.0 and 1.2, if I tried to go to a dvd folder, the PS3 marked it [DVD ISO], but if selected, they showed up as empty files. Now they play, but transcoding is the only option (with the aforementioned problems with languge track and subtitles) I'm a little over my head with all those formats. Perhaps you can point me to which versions of this free movie to test and I'll download them and report back: http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ Edit: I revisited a blu-ray that I know I watched last week in 1.0 and it played the .m2ts directly. Now playing it with MEncoder is the only option. Hey rcwills, I played around with a dvd iso the other night and was able to replicate the stuttering. I don't know what's causing it right now, but I will play around a bit more and see if there's some sort of setting that may help... thx!
November 11, 201114 yr Author Ajax, Thanks for all the hard work you've done to put this plugin together. I've run PS3 Media Server before on unRAID but shutdown the box due to space constraints. Since I've moved to a new house, I have the room and now looking at unRAID again which lead me to this plugin. I hand modified PS3.conf in renderers and changed: Supported = f:mp4 v:mp4|h264 a:ac3|aac m:video/mp4 to Supported = f:mp4|m4v v:mp4|h264 a:ac3|aac m:video/mp4 It seems as if modifications to renderers is being ignored. PS3 Media Server still wants to transcode m4v's for the PS3. The same modification on my Mac works. I know about how the web page reinstalls the package when applying changes so I've stop and started PS3 Media Server through the command line. I've also rebuilt the package to permanently make this change. Is anyone else seeing this? Thanks, Alan Hey Alan, Can you post the following file (zip it first if it's too large...)? {path_to_ps3mediaserver_install_directory}/debug.log I'm mainly interested to see the first 150 lines or so (when it goes through all the init processes) and then the lines when you try to play a m4v file... Thanks!
November 12, 201114 yr Hello, What's the situation now? Does PS3MediaServer support srt subtitle files now? If so then how do I enable that? Thanks
November 13, 201114 yr Author Does PS3MediaServer support srt subtitle files now? If so then how do I enable that? As of a couple versions ago (1.4 I think), yes. To "enable" them, assuming you have a version capable of subtitles, then you need to make sure that the subtitles are named the same as the movie, except for the file extension. So if your movie is called "Life is Beautiful.mp4" then name your subtitle "Life is Beautiful.srt" and make sure it's in the same directory as your movie. Then it should display a note that says something along the lines of "mencoder - external subtitles" (sorry, I'm away from my system so I don't know the exact text) A few notes. From my experience PS3 Media Server supports SRT files the best. I don't have enough experience with SSA/ASS, which should be also supported. Some of my anime files use that format and I know there are some config settings in PMS.conf pertaining to that subtitle type, but I just haven't played around with it enough to provide the best advice. The software does not support vobsubs, sub/idx files. One last note is that I think PS3MS supports multiple sub languages per movie (in case you are the type of person who likes to read subs in different languages depending on their mood ...). This is also something that I haven't played around much with, so I don't know how this is done.
November 13, 201114 yr Thanks for your help but nothing checks. Sure the files are srt only and bear the same name as the movie and are in the same directory. Sure PS3MediaServer shows the movie as having an external subtitle available. And sure PS3MediaServer is configured to always show subs. But it doesn't. Never. Something is wrong with PS3MS. And since I do not need any of the encoding functionality maybe i should go back to that ugly Mediatomb. Any help?
November 16, 201114 yr Author Thanks for your help but nothing checks. Sure the files are srt only and bear the same name as the movie and are in the same directory. Sure PS3MediaServer shows the movie as having an external subtitle available. And sure PS3MediaServer is configured to always show subs. But it doesn't. Never. Something is wrong with PS3MS. And since I do not need any of the encoding functionality maybe i should go back to that ugly Mediatomb. Any help? I'm sorry it isn't working for you. I was wondering if you can provide me some information that hopefully will get me some idea of what's going on. I hope you can bear with me... Here are my initial set of questions: What version of the plugin are you currently using? What language are the subtitles in? Have you modified any other settings in PMS.conf outside of the Settings page for this plugin? From the command line, what do you get when you type in "mencoder" (without the quotes) and then press enter? What about if you type "mplayer" (w/o quotes)? What do you see when you type in "ls -l /usr/share/mplayer/" (w/o quotes) Thanks!
November 19, 201114 yr hi Quick Q... looking to upgrade to 1.5 (from 1.4). Upgrade instructions state "If upgrading from any previous version (1.0-1.3), please REMOVE the the following file:..." Does this apply to 1.4 too? thanks!
November 19, 201114 yr Author hi Quick Q... looking to upgrade to 1.5 (from 1.4). Upgrade instructions state "If upgrading from any previous version (1.0-1.3), please REMOVE the the following file:..." Does this apply to 1.4 too? thanks! If you've already deleted the mencoder packages during the upgrade to 1.4 then you don't need to for 1.5. The only change in 1.5 was a quick fix to the download link to the JRE. Of course it doesn't hurt to delete if you want to be sure. On the next install, it'll get downloaded again. Thanks!
November 20, 201114 yr after installing a fresh new unRaid 5.0b13 and PS3mediaserver (through *.plg file in 1st post) i get a lot of errors: [Thread-98] ERROR 00:11:00.079 Fatal error in process initialization: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "convert" (in directory "/tmp/ps3mediaserver/imagemagick_thumbs"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory thanks in advance debug.txt
November 20, 201114 yr Author after installing a fresh new unRaid 5.0b13 and PS3mediaserver (through *.plg file in 1st post) i get a lot of errors: [Thread-98] ERROR 00:11:00.079 Fatal error in process initialization: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "convert" (in directory "/tmp/ps3mediaserver/imagemagick_thumbs"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory thanks in advance This sounds like a permissions issue. Can you try running the following command on the command line and let me know what shows up? ls -l / Thanks!
November 20, 201114 yr Author Thanks for the quick reply. The majority of my movies are just in the raw form. I hadn't settled on a media player when I was ripping them, so I kept most dvds and blu-rays in their original, unaltered structure. (Vobs for dvd, .m2ts for blu-ray). in 1.0 and 1.2, if I tried to go to a dvd folder, the PS3 marked it [DVD ISO], but if selected, they showed up as empty files. Now they play, but transcoding is the only option (with the aforementioned problems with languge track and subtitles) I'm a little over my head with all those formats. Perhaps you can point me to which versions of this free movie to test and I'll download them and report back: http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ Edit: I revisited a blu-ray that I know I watched last week in 1.0 and it played the .m2ts directly. Now playing it with MEncoder is the only option. Add the following formats to the "Skip transcode for the following extensions": avi,mp3,m2ts,ts
November 20, 201114 yr after installing a fresh new unRaid 5.0b13 and PS3mediaserver (through *.plg file in 1st post) i get a lot of errors: [Thread-98] ERROR 00:11:00.079 Fatal error in process initialization: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "convert" (in directory "/tmp/ps3mediaserver/imagemagick_thumbs"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory thanks in advance This sounds like a permissions issue. Can you try running the following command on the command line and let me know what shows up? ls -l / Thanks! Thanks for a quick response. Here is the result of the command "ls -l /": root@Tower:~# ls -l / total 32 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 19 23:31 bin/ drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 3180 Nov 19 23:44 dev/ drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 0 Nov 19 23:56 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 27 22:32 home/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 27 22:32 init -> /sbin/init* drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Nov 19 23:56 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Nov 19 23:34 mnt/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 14 2008 opt/ dr-xr-xr-x 81 root root 0 Nov 19 23:31 proc/ drwx--x--- 4 root root 0 Nov 20 02:35 root/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 13 2010 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Nov 19 23:31 sys/ drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 0 Nov 20 00:24 tmp/ drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 0 May 11 2011 usr/ drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 0 Apr 16 2007 var/ root@Tower:~# i noticed however, that the directory "/tmp/ps3mediaserver/imagemagick_thumbs" is empty and there is no "convert" programm: root@Tower:/tmp/ps3mediaserver/imagemagick_thumbs# ls -al total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 20 00:03 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Nov 20 00:03 ../ root@Tower:/tmp/ps3mediaserver/imagemagick_thumbs#
November 20, 201114 yr hi Quick Q... looking to upgrade to 1.5 (from 1.4). Upgrade instructions state "If upgrading from any previous version (1.0-1.3), please REMOVE the the following file:..." Does this apply to 1.4 too? thanks! If you've already deleted the mencoder packages during the upgrade to 1.4 then you don't need to for 1.5. The only change in 1.5 was a quick fix to the download link to the JRE. Of course it doesn't hurt to delete if you want to be sure. On the next install, it'll get downloaded again. Thanks! great, thanks for the confirmation
November 20, 201114 yr Author [Thread-98] ERROR 00:11:00.079 Fatal error in process initialization: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "convert" (in directory "/tmp/ps3mediaserver/imagemagick_thumbs"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory After a bit of research, it appears that a few binaries weren't included in some of the latest releases. Since you are exhibiting this issue, I was wondering if you could try out a fix for me... Download the following into /boot/packages and then run installpkg on it. Here are the steps: cd /boot/packages wget http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/slackware/xap/imagemagick-6.5.9_6-i486-1.txz installpkg imagemagick-6.5.9_6-i486-1.txz I don't think you'll need to restart PS3 Media Server, so please try whatever it was you were doing when you first encountered the issue and see if it's resolved. If not, please restart PS3MS either by hitting the "Apply" button on the WebGUI Settings page OR, from the command line: /etc/rc.d/rc.ps3mediaserver stop /etc/rc.d/rc.ps3mediaserver start
November 20, 201114 yr cd /boot/packages wget http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/slackware/xap/imagemagick-6.5.9_6-i486-1.txz installpkg imagemagick-6.5.9_6-i486-1.txz thanks a lot. it seems to hep to install the imagepick package. My SONY KDL-W5500 is recognizing the PS3Mediaserver and playing videos now. But my CPU (Intel G6300) seems to be quite stressed by HD media with 175% utilization. I have increased the used RAM (4GB) to 1500 too. It looks like the Transmission torrent client on unRaid is eating a lot of RAM too. In case of need, this can be probably all handled by an upgrade.
November 20, 201114 yr sorry, if this is off topic, but is it fine to install PS3MS to the USB stick with unRaid ? or should it be installed on disk1 instead ?
November 20, 201114 yr sorry, if this is off topic, but is it fine to install PS3MS to the USB stick with unRaid ? or should it be installed on disk1 instead ? In general installing ANYTHING to the flash drive is not a good idea. The USB will eventually die because of the read/write/erase cycles and exacerbating that by installing stuff to it is not a good idea.
November 23, 201114 yr sorry, if this is off topic, but is it fine to install PS3MS to the USB stick with unRaid ? or should it be installed on disk1 instead ? In general installing ANYTHING to the flash drive is not a good idea. The USB will eventually die because of the read/write/erase cycles and exacerbating that by installing stuff to it is not a good idea. I plan on using this plugin, and was curious.. does the installer by default put it on the flash drive or on the actual unraid array? It's a good point to know if I have to have my array online and ready before I go to install this plugin later.
November 23, 201114 yr sorry, if this is off topic, but is it fine to install PS3MS to the USB stick with unRaid ? or should it be installed on disk1 instead ? In general installing ANYTHING to the flash drive is not a good idea. The USB will eventually die because of the read/write/erase cycles and exacerbating that by installing stuff to it is not a good idea. I plan on using this plugin, and was curious.. does the installer by default put it on the flash drive or on the actual unraid array? It's a good point to know if I have to have my array online and ready before I go to install this plugin later. the default install location is "/boot/config/plugins/ps3mediaserver/ps3mediaserver", which means, it's the USB stick.
November 24, 201114 yr Author The default install is on the USB stick since that is the only constant in everybody's setup. Sounds trite, but deciding whether to install on your USB stick, disk/user share, or cache drive is ultimately up to you. This isn't meant to be by any means comprehensive, but here are a few considerations: USB Drive: USB is always present, doesn't need to be spun up Since it's not protected by parity, read/writes are as fast as the flash speeds permit USB sticks have a finite number of erase cycles. At some certain point, the flash memory starts to degrade and you will start to experience "corruptions" Disk/User Share: Data is protected by parity Running apps often keep disk(s) spinning, and that has it's own wear/tear costs in addition to electricity costs Cache Drive: Not protected by parity so writes can be faster Running apps often keep disks spinning, and that has it's own wear/tear costs in addition to electricity costs requires a paid-for license For me, minimizing the number of writes to the flash drive is important. If the flash drive goes, so potentially does the rest of the server (since the OS is also read off the flash drive). So the decision came down to what physical drive. For me, the cache drive was a good compromise. If you decide to use the cache drive, then please remember to make sure the mover process doesn't muck with your install.
December 9, 201114 yr The default install is on the USB stick since that is the only constant in everybody's setup. Sounds trite, but deciding whether to install on your USB stick, disk/user share, or cache drive is ultimately up to you. This isn't meant to be by any means comprehensive, but here are a few considerations: USB Drive: USB is always present, doesn't need to be spun up Since it's not protected by parity, read/writes are as fast as the flash speeds permit USB sticks have a finite number of erase cycles. At some certain point, the flash memory starts to degrade and you will start to experience "corruptions" Disk/User Share: Data is protected by parity Running apps often keep disk(s) spinning, and that has it's own wear/tear costs in addition to electricity costs Cache Drive: Not protected by parity so writes can be faster Running apps often keep disks spinning, and that has it's own wear/tear costs in addition to electricity costs requires a paid-for license For me, minimizing the number of writes to the flash drive is important. If the flash drive goes, so potentially does the rest of the server (since the OS is also read off the flash drive). So the decision came down to what physical drive. For me, the cache drive was a good compromise. If you decide to use the cache drive, then please remember to make sure the mover process doesn't muck with your install. Where can I read up on doing this? I'd like to move PS3MS off my flash to a cache drive. Thanks
December 9, 201114 yr Author Where can I read up on doing this? I'd like to move PS3MS off my flash to a cache drive. Thanks Starting with 5.0b8d, Limetech introduced the concept of a cache-only share. This is probably your best bet in an easy-to-create & use method of keeping files on the share. (there are definitely other ways, which I can share with you, but I recommend using this method first and seeing if it suits your needs). For the concept (read the first announcement post): http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=13866.0 In terms of implementation, assuming you've already added a cache drive to your configuration, just click on the "Add Share" button on the bottom of the "Shares" screen in the unRAID web page (e.g. http://tower/Shares), fill out the "Name" field and then on the "Use cache disk" drop down, select "Only". Once you click "Apply", you should have a new cache-only share. If you are thinking of migrating your PS3MS install, copy the install directory on your flash over to your new cache-only share. Then on your PS3MS config page, modify the install directory with the new path and then hit apply. If you did this correctly, it should carry over your db and settings. PM me if you have any questions! Thanks!
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