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OS X: Mediatomb (luanchd) .plist file for automatic start up.

nick — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:34:00 +0000

So now I have got mediatomb working, I've started on my own StartupItem so that it loads at boot time. The reason it is better is because you can start and stop mediatomb via launchctl.

I saved the below (the more) as /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.linickx.mediatomb.plist.

To start:

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.linickx.mediatomb.plist

To stop:

sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.linickx.mediatomb.plist

Happy Days!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>  
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.linickx.mediatomb</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array> 
        <string>/usr/local/bin/mediatomb</string>
        <string>-e</string>
        <string>en0</string>
        <string>-P</string>
        <string>/Users/nick/.mediatomb/mediatomb.pid</string>
        <string>-p</string>
        <string>49152</string>
    </array>
    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>nick</string>
    <key>ServiceDescription</key>
    <string>Run MediaTomb at boot</string>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Nice</key>
    <integer>20</integer>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Users/nick/.mediatomb/error.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Users/nick/.mediatomb/output.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Fedora 10 & ffmpegthumbnailer

nick — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:36:00 +0100

I've recently upgraded from F7 to F10 and was surprised to see that ffmpegthumbnailer hasn't made it into the yum repo's yet!

As I use ffmpegthumbnailer for PS3 Video thumbnails I needed to find a solution to this.

If I had the time I'd knock up a .spec file & rpm, but for the time being I thought I'd post my bodge.... NUMBER ONE, if you've never typed "configure;make;make install" before you need to install the development tools.

sudo yum groupinstall "development tools"

Next pick up a couple of extra dependencies...

sudo yum install libpng libpng-devel ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

You should now find that, if you download the source, unpack it - gunzip ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.0.tar.gz;tar -xvf ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.0.tar and cd ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.0 hopefully you can complete ./configure without any errors.

If you try make at this point it'll probably fail with errors, this is how I fixed that....

cd /usr/include/ffmpeg/ ln -s libavcodec/avcodec.h ./ ln -s libavformat/avformat.h ./ ln -s libswscale/swscale.h ./ ln -s libavformat/avio.h ./

Now you can... get back to the build

cd ~/ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.0 make sudo make install

If all has gone well you should have a working install :)

Bash script to fix file permissions recursively

nick — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:00:00 +0100

I love the redhat implementation of cron, simply drop a shell script into /etc/cron.daily/ and your script will be executed every day (by default at 4am).

Recently I've been having a small problem with mediatomb, further investigation lead me to a "Inotify thread caught exception" error which can be fixed by recursively resetting your file permissions.

What I have done to fix the issue is save the following code as /etc/cron.daily/fix_mt.sh and 'jobs a gooden' :cool:

#!/bin/bash
# Load up your mediatomb directories...
MediaTombDirectories[0]="/home/me/Videos"
MediaTombDirectories[1]="/home/me/Music"
# add more if needbe
# MediaTombDirectories[2]="/home/me/files"

# Setup find correctly.
export IFS=$'\n'

# Loop through our array.
for x in ${MediaTombDirectories[@]}
    do 
        # Find all directories & subdirectories
        for i in $(find $x -type d) 
            do 
                # Fix Permissions
                chmod -c 775 $i
                chown -c me:user $i
            done

        # Find all Files
        for i in $(find $x -type f) 
            do 
                # Fix Permissions
                chmod -c 664 $i
                chown -c me:user $i
            done
    done

Quick tip: You (or root) will get e-mailed every time this executes, you can make the script more verbos by changing all "-c" to "-v", or make it silent by removing the "-c" altogether.

Enjoy!

MediaTomb makes its way into fedora

nick — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:13:00 +0000

Looking through the my yum updates for the day I notice that mediatomb is set for an update, is this the version 0.11 with transcoding we've all been waiting for? Sadly no, but it is a fedora build for the default repo - YAY :D

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5527

A big thanks to mwiriadi for this!