EON - mediatomb - streaming FLAC & PCM

[Erwin Panen]

Hi,
Most of my audio is mad up of flac format.
Streaming to my PS3 does not seem to work. Did some searching, and this seems to be possible.<br />
Next I had a look at mediatomb's config.xml, and found:<br />
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<transcoding enabled="no"><br />
<mimetype-profile-mappings><br />
<transcode mimetype="video/x-flv" using="vlcmpeg"/><br />
<transcode mimetype="application/ogg" using="vlcmpeg"/><br />
<transcode mimetype="application/ogg" using="oggflac2raw"/><br />
<transcode mimetype="audio/x-flac" using="oggflac2raw"/><br />
</mimetype-profile-mappings><br />
<profiles><br />
<profile name="oggflac2raw" enabled="no" type="external"><br />
<mimetype>audio/L16</mimetype><br />
<accept-url>no</accept-url><br />
<first-resource>yes</first-resource><br />
<accept-ogg-theora>no</accept-ogg-theora><br />
<agent command="ogg123" arguments="-d raw -o byteorder:big -f %out %in"/><br />
<buffer size="1048576" chunk-size="131072" fill-size="262144"/><br />
</profile><br />
</blockquote>
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Can we just enable this on EON? Or are some requirements missing? (flac, oggflac2raw, vlcmpeg) (I couldn't find anything in notes.mtomb)<br />
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I also found this <a href="http://www.chrisbaume.co.uk/?p=152">link</a>
showing approx. the same configuration, but yet different.<br />
What would be the best way to do this?<br />
<br />
Thanks for your insight,<br />
<br />
Erwin

[Andre Lue]

Hi Lexje,

If these only need flac, ogg123 tools I may be able to generate a drop-in patch you could test. If it requires vlc, that's a whole other challenge.

I'll see what I can do.

[Andre Lue]

Hi Lexje,

I've uploaded a patch I think should add mad, flac features. Give it a try and let me know your feedback.

https://sites.google.com/site/eonstorage/downloads/mtomb-patch.tgz?attredirects=0&d=1

to install the patch, as user root
upload the file to /tmp/mtomb-patch.tgz
cd /opt/mediatomb
gzip -dc /tmp/mtomb-patch.tgz | tar -xf -

add back your edits above and retry your mad and flac files.

[Erwin Panen]

Hi Andre,
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Many thanks for posting your patch. Is there any way to get notified of thread replies that you know of? A shame I did not follow up any time sooner, sorry for that.
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Did as you indicated, also did updim.sh to be on the safe side.
As for the config.xml settings, apparently I did not take them out, so they were still in.
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Tried to restart mediatomb with "/opt/mediatomb/bin/start_mtomb.sh", </p>
but this didn't work, ended up with errors.</p>
So did init 5. Mediatomb needed to rescan the entire folder tree.</p>
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Trying on my PS3 did not play flac unfortunately :-( </p>

I'll do some more testing later, if you have any suggestions as to how I can verify, please let me know.
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Thanks for your help!</p>
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Erwin