Serviio

Introduction

Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

Serviio works with many devices from your connected home (TV, Playstation 3, XBox 360, smart phones, tablets, etc.). It supports profiles for particular devices so that it can be tuned to maximise the device's potential and/or minimize lack of media format playback support (via transcoding).

Serviio is based on Java technology and therefore runs on most platforms, including Windows, Mac and Linux (incl. embedded systems, e.g. NAS).

There is also a paid for Pro edition which further enhances the possibilities of sharing content in your connected household.

Installation

Switch to root...

sudo -i
cd

Download the serviio software...

wget http://download.serviio.org/releases/serviio-1.6.1-linux.tar.gz

Unpack the file...

tar -xzvf serviio-1.6.1-linux.tar.gz -C /opt/

Read the instructions...

less /opt/serviio-1.6.1/README.txt

Download the additional software files...

wget http://download.serviio.org/opensource/lame-3.99.5.tar.gz
wget http://download.serviio.org/opensource/rtmpdump.tar.gz
wget http://download.serviio.org/opensource/last_x264.tar.bz2
wget http://download.serviio.org/opensource/freetype-2.4.11.tar.gz
wget http://download.serviio.org/opensource/fontconfig-2.10.91.tar.gz
wget http://download.serviio.org/opensource/libass-0.10.1.tar.gz
wget http://download.serviio.org/opensource/libogg-1.3.2.tar.gz
wget http://download.serviio.org/opensource/speex-1.2rc1.tar.gz
wget http://download.serviio.org/opensource/ffmpeg-2.4.x.tar.bz2

Install the compiling software...

apt-get install -y build-essential

Install the Java software...

add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
apt-get update
apt-get install -y oracle-java8-installer

Install the extra software...

apt-get install -y pkgconf libssl-dev libfribidi-bin libfribidi-dev expat libexpat1-dev yasm

Unpack each of the additional software files, make and install them (first, 'lame')...

tar -xzvf lame-3.99.5.tar.gz
cd lame-3.99.5/
./configure
make
make install 

...then, continue with the other 8 additional software files until you finish with 'ffmpeg'.

Thanks - http://serviio.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5

Starting

Edit the Ubuntu run control file which starts on boot...

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Add these lines before the 'exit 0' line...

/opt/serviio-1.6.1/bin/serviio.sh &
/opt/serviio-1.6.1/bin/serviio-console.sh &

Then run it...

sudo /etc/rc.local

Check it is running...

netstat -ntap |grep 'java'

Firewall Ports

ufw allow from 192.168.0.0/24 to any port 8895 proto tcp
ufw allow from 192.168.0.0/24 to any port 1900 proto udp

Configuration

Now browse to the web console...

http://ipaddress:23423/console

Library

Adding content...

http://serviio.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5

Shared Folders

Add > Path > OK

Online Sources

YouTube

Download the plugin...

cd /opt/serviio-1.6.1/plugins
wget -O Youtube.groovy http://forum.serviio.org/download/file.php?id=5204

Add content...

Library > Online Sources > Add
Source > Web Resource
Source URL > https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?forUsername=FilmsActuTrailers
Display Name > YouTube - Fresh Movie Trailers
Thumbnail URL > https://yt3.ggpht.com/-VmnWFt29mbM/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/2EWzCkZnbe4/s100-c-k-no-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg
OK
Save

Forum page...

http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3276

Stopping

/opt/serviio-1.6.1/bin/serviio-console.sh -stop
/opt/serviio-1.6.1/bin/serviio.sh -stop

Console

Disable Notifications

In the web console you may wish to disable the notification of newly added media.

To do this click the button in the top right-hand of the web-page, this will then show a menu (see picture below):

Apps

http://serviio.org/apps

Help

http://serviio.org/support

Don't Panic Mr Mannering

If you are browsing your media with for instance VLC and it only shows you say half of the folders you know you have, don't panic there is probably nothing wrong. Either the folder does not contain a media file, or at worst does not contain a .nfo file.