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Monday, November 12, 2012

MediaTomb

I have been playing with DLNA to stream video to my MK802.  I started trying out various DLNA servers which lead me to MediaTomb.  MediaTomb is a great DLNA media server that supports storing information in a database and has a web interface for administration.  It was easy to set up and get running.  It was in the Gentoo Portage tree and came with a decent default configuration.  MediaTomb does hash all of your files, so if your files are on a network drive, it may take a while to scan everything.  I started using various DLNA media players on the MK802 while the scan was still running.  It seemed to work very well.  Then something weird started to happen.  The folder structure didn't match what I had.  I organize my files into folders.  I have folders inside of folders.  I always felt that was kind of the point of folders.  You can nest them!  What I noticed was MediaTomb flattened the folders.  When browsing, you get a list of folders, regardless of their parent or depth.  Instead of having a movies and a shows folder, I had a lot of folders in the root.  I couldn't navigate.

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