The following is an excerpt from a log file from ps3mediaserver. I am trying to fix a problem where there program cannot locate the subtitle TTF file, but I am limited by my almost zero knowledge of linux.

 

[Thread-1243] DEBUG 19:01:58.343 New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
[Thread-1243] DEBUG 19:01:58.343 Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).

 

I understand that ~ is the home directory. Correct?

 

What is ".mplayer"? is that a directory?

 

I can easily take it from here and put the TTF file where it belongs... if you could just help me understand where that location is

 

Thanks, from a new unraid user and linux noob

~ by itself would represent your home directory.  If ps3mediaserver is being run as root, then the home directory would be

/root

 

.mediaplayer as part of a path to a file would be a directory.  The directories that start with a leading period are not normally displayed under unix with a simple

ls

or

ls -l

command

 

You must use the "-a" option to "ls" to see the hidden files and directories

ls -la /root

 

The font file must then be put in a directory you create (if it does not already exist) under /root

 

if the directory does not exist, you can create it by typing

mkdir /root/.mplayer

 

Joe L.

Thanks, Joe. I now understand how this works. Unfortunately though I created the directory, put arial.ttf in there and renamed in subfont.ttf, and still received the same exact error in the debug.log

 

I'll see if I can get some help in the ps3mediaserver thread regarding this.

One complication here, the unRAID operating system and file system in use here are all in RAM, so folders you create and files you copy to them are lost on reboot.  You have to put these files somewhere on the boot flash drive, then add commands to the go script to create the folders desired and copy the files to them, before you start your PS3 tools.

 

Edit:  I apologize if you already knew that.