PS3 Media Server for Solaris
Posted in Media, Solaris on 04/07/2009 08:00 am by jmccune
I spent the better part of the evening attempting to get a reliable, responsive and otherwise unobtrusive DLNA media server running on my new OpenSolaris home file server. I finally stumbled upon PMS which “just works” after using X11 forwarding over ssh once in order to get at the GUI configuration screen. I went ahead and tried the Linux tarball. None of the included binaries execute on solaris, but the jar file appears to run great.
Once running, my PS3 sees the media player quickly and easily and streams my MP3’s nicely.
I’m planning on cooking up a SMF profile to keep this running as a service and figure out the mplayer calls in order to stream my favorite web streams directly to the PS3.
Other DLNA media servers I tried were Coherence (no documentation, didn’t work out of box), Mediatomb (needed to hack the source to get it to run on solaris. When running, rarely showed up in the XMB), fuppes (compile issues).
05/04/2009 at 6:44 am
When it comes to Coherence documentation is not very extensive, nonetheless there *is* some. See here: http://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/DocumentationDepartment. Additionally, I wrote a complete guide to set Coherence up on OpenSolaris: http://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/SolarisInstallation, including SMF profile. Coherence is running very well and serving HD videos, sounds and videos (plus stuff from Apple Trailers, Flickr and whatnot).
05/27/2009 at 11:16 pm
Thanks for the comment Mike. I actually ended up sticking with MediaTomb after finally getting it to compile cleanly. MediaTomb been rock solid for me.
While it’s not yet serving anything else than static media on the filesystem, I do have a post waiting to be published regarding Peapod automated video downloading, and I’ll be investigating the scripting aspects of MediaTomb as time permits.
06/11/2009 at 4:29 am
I’ve just installed OpenSolaris and set it up as a storage server.
Found your blog while searching for a DNLA server for Solaris.
Have you submitted a patch with your modifications to the MediaTomb project?
Or could you send them your binarys to add to the download page?
06/18/2009 at 10:21 am
Ben,
I have plans to create “official” packages for MediaTomb binaries for solaris in the very near future. I’ll keep you posted on this with an article, so please subscribe to the RSS feed. Were you able to get mediatomb running on your OpenSolaris system? If not, I’d be happy to help you.
-Jeff