Ushare

[jonstutler]

Can anyone give me some guidance on how to configure ushare? It's up and running but I'd like to add more directories to share(i.e movies, music, pictures). Right now the directory is sees by default is my music directory.

TIA,

Jon

[cpg]

the configuration is in /var/hda/apps/ushare/ushare.conf and that file was made writeable by users. this is where the settings are:

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# Amahi specific settings a colon-separated list of directories # with the media in it USHARE_UNION=/var/hda/files/movies:/var/hda/files/music:/var/hda/files/pictures

then, as root, type:

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service amahi-ushare restart

NOW - obviously we'd like to make this configurable. however, we decided in the interest of releasing it asap and not wait until it's "done" (for some definition of "done") to start with a hard coded configuration that "mixes" all the content into one "union" folder and then we would worry about making it more programmable. obviously we'd like to add something to let you add things on the fly.

we discussed several options.

question: which one would you like best as a user or you think users in general will like better?:

• 1.- the app would recognize tags so that if you put a tag of ushare in a share, it is made available to ushare. by default, any shares with tags of music, movies or pictures would be tagged ushare at install time
• 2.- the app would have it's own little control panel, like amahitunes, to allow adding any directory to it

there may be other options, of course.

[gjc1000]

I wanted to do the same thing, point to where my files are. I tried your command suggestions, but terminal came back with "service" not a command. In a text editor I manually changed the .conf file, saved it and then went to the GUI service tab in fedora and restarted ushare. But this didn't work either. On a bright note, several boxes see ushare upnp but they show the default files/folders. Any ideas?
thanks in advance

[robrown]

How can you separate them out on the xbox? When I go to VIdeos I see them, but then when I go to Music it shows my videos too.

[gdom]

seems that ushare places a copy of the files in the /var/hda/apps/ushare/files directory
im hoping im mistaken couse this would generate quite a few hundreds of gigs extra in my case.
If this is the case why oh why does it do this and how to get around it?

[cpg]

these are not copies

these are virtual files, via unionfs, which basically makes a union (as in set union) of a bunch of directories.

this is a solution we implemented to overcome a limitation in ushare. apparently the program has problems taking more than one directory simultaneously.

the big issue is that adding file dynamically, while it's picked up by the union dir, it is not picked up by ushare. it needs to be restarted (service ushare restart).

the other choices for upnp server do not work as good as ushare (which is really not that well ...).

the upnp situation is a little bleak ...

[moredruid]

perhaps you can use symlinks? just a thought (haven't looked at upnp)

[arrrghhh]

have you guys looked at implementing ps3media server? it's a google SoC project, that is (perhaps unfortunately) written in java. completely cross platform however, and just depends on ffmepg mainly (i believe). there is a gui if you want one, but if you run a headless server (like i do currently) it's perfectly fine being configured thru conf files. i'm actually extremely impressed at how well the app works in linux, while the guy developing it is mainly a windows guy. it transcodes on-the-fly, and there is basic xb360 support (unfortunately m$ didn't implement the DNLA protocol properly, you can actually read about it in the ps3media server forums. http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/ that's the google SoC homepage for the project. should be fairly easy to drop into amahi. i'm still running ubuntu and would love to see amahi be added on top of it. i need to get another drive to really test amahi. i've never used ushare, so i'm not even quite sure what its capabilites are but ps3mediaserver is the BEST one i've used. i have a tv that's DLNA compliant, and it plays all the music and video that the tv says it'll play (no divx/xvid booo!) so i stick to using my ps3 for media streaming. so IMHO this upnp media server is for more than just ps3's, it's just that the project was born specifically for that device - because to my knowledge as far as standards compliance goes the PS3 is the best device for a upnp client.

[gjc1000]

Perhaphs these might be an option: http://mediatomb.cc/ or this http://www.networkedmediatank.com/download/myihome.html

[arrrghhh]

mediatomb isn't bad, but needs quite a bit of configuration, and doesn't do near what ps3media does out-of-the-box. i still wasn't able to get transcoding to work with mediatomb, and it works as advertised - without any fuss - assuming all dependencies are met - in ps3media... that's why i HIGHLY recommend it.