N800 and UPnP MediaServers for Mac OS X?
Canola and the Media Streamer on the N800 are apparently both capable UPnP control points/players so I recently decided to set up a UPnP MediaServer on my Mac Mini, where all my media(photos/music/video) lives. I drew a blank though:
- MediaTomb - open source but I couldn’t find a universal binary anywhere.
- EyeConnect - the N800 could see the server, it did not list any available media content.
- TwonkyVision - music and photo streaming worked but I had no luck with streaming video and then the trial expired. It’s hard to justify buying commercial software when a major feature doesn’t appear to work in my environment.
Today, I notice the PS3 modders also have a list of UPnP Servers but alas nothing new there either.
Maybe I’ll have a go at building MediaTomb on OS X or maybe I’ll have to install Linux on my Mac Mini?
Update: I took the plunge and compiled and installed MediaTomb on my Mac Mini (using Apple Xcode development tools) following the instructions. There is a bit of prep work required to install the prerequisite zlib, libmagic, libjs, taglib, id3lib, libexif libraries though so this approach is not for the faint-hearted! I did hit a minor snag getting the MediaTomb configure script to use libjs v1.6 but resolved that with a little help from Jin. Streaming music and photos works great with Canola but some streamed DIVX-encoded AVI files won’t play - I’m assuming that is an N800 codec problem though…
Update 2: A day later, Jin announces that MediaTomb is now available via Fink. That should makes it easier for the rest of you to compile/install. Thanks Jin!
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Hi,
I know that there are no MediaTomb OS X binaries yet, but there is finally a Fink package, so installation should get much easier :>
Jin
Great that it’s working! Congratulations.
Which directories does the MediaTomb server stream your content from? Can you set it up to stream from the iTunes directory ?
Have you taken any security measures to prevent digital trespassers in your personal folders?
Jakob
Hey Jakob,
I’ve since upgraded my mac mini to leopard, haven’t reinstalled mediatomb since and I can’t remember the specifics. IIRC I pointed mediatomb at my itunes music (using the web admin pages) and it worked fine…
John.