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

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’

#!/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!

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

A big thanks to mwiriadi for this!