Possible packages...

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On 09/17/2009 11:25 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 10:46 -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>
>> I had mediatomb installed, very much disliked it. It may have been my
>> ability to configure it as well. However it wasn't as easy as
>> ps3mediaserver. Granted I don't know if the ps3 one will work with all
>> media players, I think it only encodes to what the ps3 can handle if I'm
>> not mistaken.
>>
>>> (unless ps3mediaserver's implementation of on-the-fly transcoding lets
>>> you fast-forward and rewind. that'd be good. mediatomb can't do that.)
>>
>> It does.
>
> Yeah, I just tried it out. Seems to do that fairly well. Bit hard for me
> to test properly as my PS3's wireless connection isn't really good
> enough, but it seemed to work.
>
> afaict, though, it doesn't work with any transcoder except
> mplayer/ffmpeg, and it's pretty useless without transcoding.
>
> there's also this little gem: linux/tsMuxeR_licence.txt
>
> "YOU MAY NOT MODIFY, ADAPT, TRANSLATE, RENT, LEASE, LOAN, SELL, REQUEST
> DONATIONS OR CREATE DERIVATE WORKS BASED UPON THE SOFTWARE OR ANY PART
> THEREOF."
>
> so to put it in fedora or rpmfusion-free, you'd have to drop tsmuxer; I
> think it's optional.

Yeah, I think it uses mplayer/mencoder over tsMuxer, and is configurable.


> I would recommend you add the necessary infrastructure to the package to
> let it run as a service; although the website doesn't widely advertise
> the fact, it does actually run fine without X. I don't know if there's a
> parameter to force it into 'headless' mode, but you could always hack it
> by running it with an empty DISPLAY variable. (it also seems like it
> doesn't save configuration across runs, which is a bit odd.)

It saves them as long as you tell it to and it has the permissions to 
create/save the file.