{"id":924,"date":"2014-02-05T23:51:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T07:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blt.homenet.org\/wordpress\/?p=924"},"modified":"2017-08-01T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T04:23:10","slug":"ubuntu-media-server-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Media Server Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted a while back<\/a> that I had a good media server setup, but since then I’ve had a lot of problems getting things up and running on my PS3. \u00a0Many of my video files are in many different formats and UMS was having issues with some, but not others. \u00a0I don’t recall if I sorted out what was causing issues, but I was tired of the problems and looked for other options.<\/p>\n

In my searching I came across Plex Media Server<\/a>. \u00a0There is some type of pay service that they offer, but after reading about this a bit I found that the local media server is free and decided to give it a try. \u00a0Short story is I think I like it now, but it took a while for me to get up and going.<\/p>\n

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Issue #1: My first issue is that if you use the apt-get blah blah blah my source list wasn’t pulling the latest version as noted on the website. \u00a0The fixes seemed to point me to updating the source file with part of the source listing the ubuntu version I was running. \u00a0Now I tend to be forward leaning when it comes to updates and I’ve stayed with the latest ubuntu versions. \u00a0Having to update my source file didn’t seem too fun. \u00a0So rather I decided to just download the file directly from the website copy the link and install directly. \u00a0At the time I wrote this 9.8.18.290 was the latest version for me<\/p>\n

$ wget http:\/\/downloads.plexapp.com\/plex-media-server\/0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd\/plexmediaserver_0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd_i386.deb .\r\n\r\n#sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd_i386.deb<\/pre>\n
Issue #2: \u00a0With plex installed I ran into some issues with it detecting my movies. \u00a0Plex really likes the movies to be in a specific format (see here<\/a>) and I really didn’t care to rename my files. \u00a0So rather the way I did this was to create a Home Video Library and then add the folders that I wanted it to detect. \u00a0With using the Home Video library it will pull any video format regardless of the name.<\/p>\n
Issue #3: The other thing is that I wanted this to play through my PS3 or to my android phone using DLNA. \u00a0Initially, Plex could see all the videos and added them to the library, but when I tried to play then I always go some errors. \u00a0The post on Ant Dicken’s Blog<\/a>\u00a0had the answer for me. \u00a0See my files are all on a USB external drive and ubuntu was adding them to my \/media\/<username>\/<drivename>. \u00a0When it did this plex couldn’t get to the files. \u00a0So as the post shows I modified my \/etc\/fstab file to directly mount the drives to \/media\/<drivename>and things worked. \u00a0To get the needed information to do the modificaiton I used the two commands below.<\/p>\n
$ mount\r\n$ sudo blkid -o full -s UUID<\/pre>\n
Note, make sure you make a backup of the fstab table before you modify it. This saved me as after my first modification I had an error that was causing problems with ubuntu.<\/p>\n
With those three fixes I was up and running.<\/p>\n
A quick note about playing the videos on the PS3. Fast forwarding doesn’t really work, but if you hit triangle and then in the upper left choose scene selector you can jump forward through the movie.<\/p>\n
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