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droz1
Dec 19, 2010Aspirant
ReadyDLNA stuck scanning files have debug installed
Hey everyone, Have an odd problem that started up the other day. My ReadyDLNA service is stuck scanning files, I've restarted it several time, even turned the service off for a whole day a...
droz1
Dec 19, 2010Aspirant
Ah thanks!
OK so this is what I got....
Lucius:~# minidlna -d -R
Unknown option in file /etc/minidlna.conf
[2010/12/19 18:36:57] minidlna.c:631: error: MiniDLNA is already running. EXITING.
here's my minidlna.conf file....
Lucius:~# cat /etc/minidlna.conf
# port for HTTP (descriptions and SOAP) traffic
port=8200
# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you
# can prepend the type, followed by a comma, to the directory:
# + "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
# + "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
# + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
media_dir=V,/c/Videos
# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
#friendly_name=My DLNA Server
# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/")
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg
# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files
# note: the default is yes
inotify=yes
# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no
# default presentation url is http address on port 80
#presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php
# report system uptime instead of daemon uptime
system_uptime=no
# notify interval in seconds. default is 30 seconds.
notify_interval=900
# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
serial=12345678
model_number=1
OK so this is what I got....
Lucius:~# minidlna -d -R
Unknown option in file /etc/minidlna.conf
[2010/12/19 18:36:57] minidlna.c:631: error: MiniDLNA is already running. EXITING.
here's my minidlna.conf file....
Lucius:~# cat /etc/minidlna.conf
# port for HTTP (descriptions and SOAP) traffic
port=8200
# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if have multiple directories, you can have multiple media_dir= lines
# * if you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you
# can prepend the type, followed by a comma, to the directory:
# + "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/home/jmaggard/Music)
# + "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/home/jmaggard/Videos)
# + "P" for images (eg. media_dir=P,/home/jmaggard/Pictures)
media_dir=V,/c/Videos
# set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
#friendly_name=My DLNA Server
# this should be a list of file names to check for when searching for album art
# note: names should be delimited with a forward slash ("/")
album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg/AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg/Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg
# set this to no to disable inotify monitoring to automatically discover new files
# note: the default is yes
inotify=yes
# set this to yes to enable support for streaming .jpg and .mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO
enable_tivo=no
# default presentation url is http address on port 80
#presentation_url=http://www.mylan/index.php
# report system uptime instead of daemon uptime
system_uptime=no
# notify interval in seconds. default is 30 seconds.
notify_interval=900
# serial and model number the daemon will report to clients
# in its XML description
serial=12345678
model_number=1
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