Work out your RSS feeds! I keep on getting "new article" alerts for this site -- but no new article has been posted. This is a massive pain in the ass.

Hi George. We're not sure what you are talking about. How do you get your RSS feed?

This is an excellent post. At the end there you touch on supported file media types. I use FFMPEGX to convert my video files to a format the the PS3 can read. Do you have any links to a DEFINITIVE set of preferences that strikes a balance between lo-HD quality (720p or even lower) and fast encoding times? i.e a 45 minute TV episode shouldn't take more than 1 hour to re-encode for the PS3??

I did everything you say, but when I try: fink install mediatomb It says: Information about 4815 packages read in 1 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification 'mediatomb'! Even tried with sudo fink install mediatomb With same result. Any way to tell fink the package location? http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/mediatomb

I don’t know if I am all too impressed with Bebo, but anything that takes away from the popularity of MySpace is great.

hi, i'm trying to do this but it doesn't seem to be working. i've got xcode installed, installed fink but when i open the terminal and enter $ sudo fink scanpackages; fink index it asks for my password, i enter it and it says sudo: fink: command not found -bash: fink: command not found i guess this is not good. any ideas?

I've successfully used the Twonkey Media software to stream audio and pictures to my PS3 from my Mac, and it doesn't involve having to compile software. You just download it and try it for free for 30 days.

TwonkyMedia is a far better alternative. Whilst it costs 30Euro, it's well worth it, it simply works. It's also available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and many other embedded devices. It has a tiny footprint, and supports many different audio/video/music clients, including the PS3. It also has web interface, and Internet radio support. Transcoding can be achieved using VLC as a plugin. www.twonkyvision.de for the 30 day trial.

I did this same procedure yesterday (and contemplated posting a howto on my blog) BUT i couldn't get the PS3 to see the server. It simply showed no media servers. i booted my mac into XP and used the windows media sharing feature, and was able to see the server and stream some media. i'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar problem? both my mac and the ps3 are on the same wifi router, with uPnP enabled on the router AND the PS3. Any ideas?

@ben: you don't have fink in your path. you can either add /sw/bin to your path, or just type out /sw/bin/fink everytime the instructions call for fink

Great tutorial! I did everything you said and it works great for my mp3 files, but I don't know how to get my .mp4 files to work on my PS3. I've tried twonkymedia before trying your tutorial and my .mp4 files was working just fine. Maybe I've miss something in the mimetype section. Could you lend me some help to get my .mp4 to work?

Thanks for the post. I've been trying and failing for weeks to get mediatomb running on the ps3!

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Hi, Thanks for the tutorial. I have followed all step but I am getting the following error when starting mediatomb: ERROR: main: upnp error -203 ERROR: Could not bind to socket. I have been looking around but don't seam to find anything in the forums. Any idea? Thanks for your help. Daniel

I need some help. I'm seeing the following after I start the install of Mediatomb: sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q --ignore-breakage --download-only install graphviz=1.16-1012 id3lib4-dev=3.8.3-1014 id3lib4-shlibs=3.8.3-1014 tetex-texmf=3.0-1 Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following NEW packages will be installed: graphviz id3lib4-dev id3lib4-shlibs tetex-texmf 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 157MB of archives. After unpacking 393MB will be used. Get:1 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main tetex-texmf 3.0-1 [148MB] After that, it just sits there and does nothing. Can anyone help? Thanks

Sorry for my post. I guess I was just impatient or something because after leaving my computer at that step for a long time, it finally started going

I keep getting this error and so when i come to edit the mediatomb config file its blank... please someone shed some light on this... /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 jconfig.h /sw/src/fink.build/root-libjpeg-6b-17/sw/include/jconfig.h /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./jpeglib.h /sw/src/fink.build/root-libjpeg-6b-17/sw/include/jpeglib.h make: *** [install-headers] Bus error ### execution of make failed, exit code 2 Removing runtime build-lock... Removing build-lock package... /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-libjpeg-6b-17 (Reading database ... 4372 files and directories currently installed.) Removing fink-buildlock-libjpeg-6b-17 ... Failed: phase installing: libjpeg-6b-17 failed

I get the same problem with the upnp error -203... I don't understand it!

2007-08-03 22:00:17 INFO: Configuration check succeeded. 2007-08-03 22:00:17 INFO: Config: option not found: /server/ip using default value: 2007-08-03 22:00:17 ERROR: main: upnp error -203 2007-08-03 22:00:17 ERROR: Could not bind to socket. 2007-08-03 22:00:17 INFO: Please check if another instance of MediaTomb or 2007-08-03 22:00:17 INFO: another application is running on the same port. any ideas?

1) I had the same problem with error -203. Running mediatomb under sudo works just fine, however. If you do that, your configuration files are still in your regular home directory under .mediatomb Having resolved that issue, my problem is with streaming .m4a files created with iTunes. There's no mime-type given in the article, although you say it supports AAC. I can't get anything but "Unsupported file".

Addendum to my comment: If you end up having to run mediatomb under sudo, you can get it to drop permissions back to the regular user after binding the port by using the command line options -u and -g . The command-line options are all shown by running "mediatomb --help" Other problems I had were: It bound to the virtual LAN of Parallels by default. I had to explicitly specify the internet address with "-i 192.168.0.5". So, if you are using Parallels (or if it says "INFO: Server bound to: " with an address that is not your Mac's internet address) you might have to do this.

I can't seem to find the config file after installation? I type the nano /Users/james.ho/.mediatomb/config.xml command putting my name where it says james/ho, but it just creates a blank file. Any ideas?

Raj, I have the same problem. Mediatomb is running, the PS3 doesn't see it. I am pretty confused.

Finally got it working! The thing I had to do was try and run mediatomb before I messed with the config files because it doesn't create the conf file until you do that. then I exited and followed the rest of the instructions.

I was able to run mediatomb with sudo, but how do I run it so that I can view the files under my username? Now, when I run it without sudo, it says: 2007-08-04 15:23:44 INFO: Configuration check succeeded. 2007-08-04 15:23:44 INFO: Config: option not found: /server/ip using default value: 2007-08-04 15:23:44 INFO: Initialized port: 49152 2007-08-04 15:23:44 INFO: Server bound to: 10.211.55.2 but it doesn't complete.. not sure what the problem is.

Does anyone have trouble streaming video? I've converted a DVD into Mpeg-4 using Handbrake and when I try to play it, the PS3 displays a "The Data is Corrupted" error. However, if I transfer the file using a Compact Flash card, it plays perfectly. Any ideas?

How do you run mediatomb under sudo?

type sudo mediatomb

i am getting this error also...anyone come up with something? 2007-08-05 13:25:29 ERROR: main: upnp error -203 2007-08-05 13:25:29 ERROR: Could not bind to socket. 2007-08-05 13:25:29 INFO: Please check if another instance of MediaTomb or 2007-08-05 13:25:29 INFO: another application is running on the same port.

MediaTomb is running and I could connect to the Configuration in a right way. However, PS3 is not recognising the server. I need help. I am using a Airport Extreme Base Station where my iMac and my PS3 both are wireless clients. For the Airport I was using an 192. address scheme. However, MediaTomb was creating a 10. server address which seems to be visible by the system caused by Parallels? I tried also to give the right network adapter into the config.xml, but it does not seem to work right.

When I try to edit the config files and go to save the modifications i get "could not open file for writing: permission denied". I am the administrator so i dont know why I wouldn't have permission. Thanks for the help.

Hi, first of all - thanks for this article! While we did port MediaTomb to OS X - we do not have an instant access to an OS X box and we do not have any experience with Fink, so usually we can not really offer much support to OS X users. One thing though - does Fink pull in the libmagic dependency? If MediaTomb is compiled with libmagic support, then you do not need to add the extra extension to mimetype mappings - the mimetypes will be autodetected (just like in the file -i example). We also understand that compiling is not the easiest way for OS X users; we'd surely like to see those "image" files that you guys are often using, however we can not provide any (no experience with OS X and no system), so that I guess that would be up to the community :>

When I specify an IP address, I get around the Parallels issues, but now a new problem: 2007-08-06 22:51:48 ERROR: main: upnp error -208 2007-08-06 22:51:48 ERROR: Socket error. 2007-08-06 22:51:48 INFO: Please check if your network interface was configured for multicast! 2007-08-06 22:51:48 INFO: Refer to the README file for more information. Help? TIA

yeah, i got all the way to the end, everything seems to be fine on the compiling end but the ps3 just isn't seeing the server.

I don't want to sound like a jerk or like I'm insulting anyone, but for those people who can't get their PS3's to recognize the server, have you guys turned on the option to allow your PS3 to see media servers under the system settings?

Is anyone else's permission's being denied when they try to make changes to the config file? If you are having this problem and fixed it please let me know how you do it

yes my ps3's setting is marked "yes" under media servers.

Settings>network settings>Media Server connection = ENABLED but my ps3 doesnt seem to see mediatomb. are there any ports that i need to open up for mediatomb if i don't have uPnP turned on??????

What is the mimetype for .m4a files

regarding "ERROR main: upnp error -203" I ran into the same problems on freebsd. I discovered that there was an other upnp server running, which I almost forgot about. Since I stopped the other server (in my case it was slimserver) mediatomb runs without error. hope this helps for MacOS too :) cheers, Jessy

Great guide! I run parallels with Vista on my iMac - but can not get the PS3 to find the media sever. Any ideas on how to get the PS3 streaming working while running Vista through parallels? It shouldn't be much different from running it from a PC with Vista?

Hi everyone! First of all, thank you so much for this tutorial, it's great!! And now the "problem": when I see my iphoto library on my ps3 it seems that mediatomb rescale the pics, so they loose a lot of resolution... What can I do to see my photos in their original resolution? Thanks in advance! ;-) PD: Excuse my english, I'm from Spain...

I have installed the mediatomb on a power PC G5. My PS3 sees the directory tree, however, I get the error "there are no images" when I navigate to a directory in the iPhoto library which contains .JPG files. What might be wrong.

Magnus-- If you've got both the Airport and Ethernet open, it might be that the VM is connected to a different network to your PS3. Check the ip's of the ps3, and vista to confirm. Also Vista has its own firewalling of course, so you might wanna sledgehammer that one down as well if you're still having problems.

I am also unable to save my config.xml file in nano because I don't have permission. Does anyone know how to get around this? Thanks.

I'm stuck!!! I have everything up, but it's under sudo and the config doesn't work there. A previous post mentioned how to address this by using -u or -g...but how? What do I type and where? Your help is much appreciated.

check out this weird error i got while adding content: 2007-08-19 14:42:42 INFO: http://192.168.1.100:49152/ 2007-08-19 14:51:19 ERROR: iconv: Illegal byte sequence 2007-08-19 14:51:19 ERROR: It is the seamless way the songs on the eponymously titled 311 combine the band's influences into a potent blend of rap, funk and rock that renders this album a cut above their competitors. These riff-heavy and radio-ready songs are underscored by a tight drum sound (often with a piccolo snare), the scratching of turntables and the crunch of heavy guitars: a formidable backdrop for this surprisingly melodic effort. The rhythms of reggae and ska percolate through this mix, and the harmonies of Nick Hexum and Count SA lend the band an edge not found in the majority of bands that feature rapping over rock beats. ? Peter Stepek could not be converted to new encoding: invalid character sequence!

I had the same upnp error you all are getting. The first problem that I had was that the IP that was being given was coming from Parallels even though I wasn't actually running parallels. I disabled Parallels under system preferences...networking. I restarted mediatomb and saw that I was given a completely different ip address. So, I decided to try something. I opened the config.xml file. Find where it says (towards the top of the config.xml file). Go to the end of that line and hit enter to create a new line below it. In the new line type x.x.x.x (the x's being the ip address of the mac you are serving the files from. Save the changes and restart mediatomb. My ps3 saw the mediatomb server immmediately. Works great so far!!!

SORRY.....mistake in the previous post. After I opened the config.xml file I went to where it says . I created the new line with the ip address just below that.

I guess I can't post with characters... Look for the line towards the top of the config.xml file that says "server". Go to the end of that line and hit enter to create a new line below it. That's where you want to enter the ip address information. Sorry for all the posts.

Hey guys. I'm able to run mediatomb but when I pull up the config.xml its a blank document. I read earlier on that you had to run mediatomb before it creates the config file. well its running but still a blank page.

I am stock at the /sw/etc/fink.conf screen.. i changed the language to say unstable/main unstable/crypto but then i hit ctrl "s" and then it gives me an error saying "XOFF ignored, mumble mumble." what the heck do i do? Please provide some detail. I am new to macs and don't know what this means. Should I try to redo the process. How can i do that? Please email me if you don't feel like posting. Edward.mccusker@gmail.com Thanks!

Forgive potential idiocy, but am I supposed to do anything with the mediatomb files on their site, like download and put them somewhere before I do anything? I've got to "fink install mediatomb" without any problems, but it then says "Information about 5945 packages read in 4 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification 'mediatomb'!" so what am I supposed to do to get round it? For those who rarely code, it is a little difficult to understand :S

Got it working, ish, but not sure where i should put the mime types?

I got to where Ben is by trial and error. Are we supposed to have mediatomb on our hard drive first? Where do we put it? I get the same error as he does. Failed no package found for specification mediatomb. Please help.

I followed the tutorial to the letter, all was fine until i searched for media servers on the PS3.... however the PS3 can't see the mac at all. Media servers are enabled in the PS3 network settings. I tried Adam's advice of adding in the IP address of the mac into the confog.xml file, but this just caused errors parsing the config file, and mediatomb failed to load at all. To be honest, i'm not sure i fully understand exactly where, and in which scripting format Adam was suggesting to add the IP info. I tried updating Mediatomb to 0.10.0 but i could get my head round that at all, afaik i'm running 0.9.1 on a Macbook Pro, Via a BT home hub to the PS3 (all wireless) Any sugesstions gratefully received!

Ah ha! Found the problem! It was my firewall. If you add a new firewall exception for the port number that Mediatomb uses (mine was 49152 or something) it works great! Now i just have a problem with the Database GUI... nothing is showing up... i'm working on it!

Use firefox not safari, problem solved!

Having trouble installing Mediatomb: it reads when i type fink install mediatomb Information about 5631 packages read in 2 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification 'mediatomb'! Can u please help

Thanks for the tutorial. It went without a hitch on my Powerbook except that I had to add this line to the mappings to get video to stream: I encoded a DVD with Handbrake's PS3 settings. It looks fine when I download it to the box and watch it, but streaming is a jerky. I think that's my network problems, though.

I have got mediatomb working with mp3 but not jpg or mp4 video files. Can somebody tell me what mime types I should have in my config file? I tried setting mp4 to video/AVC and the ps3 seems to recognize it but when I try to play the file it says it is corrupted. Also when I check the information on the ps3 it is incomplete. Here is what I have right now;

for some reason when i try to type in my password right at the beginning, nothing shows up.....any ideas??

K im curious...how would you uninstall all of this?

Alright, I can see mediatomb on the PS3, I have only added MP3 files. The PS3 can see the directories (artists, genres, etc) in Mediatomb but always says there are no files present. I KNOW I'm close - any ideas what I'm missing?

I am at a similar point that Drew is, Mediatomb DB tree shows my audio files, however if I cannot get them to work for me by looking in the automatically created audio folder. However if I go to my pc directory directly i can get to the audio and photos and they play great. Should I disregard the mediatomb folders and just go to the albums directly?. One more how have you set up the ability to multiplay entire albums or playlists?

One more comment, this works much better than Eyeconnect-thanks for the tutorial!

When I write in "mediatomb" (in the end of the guide) it says: 007-09-17 18:59:59 INFO: Loading configuration from: /Users/Lars/.mediatomb/config.xml 2007-09-17 18:59:59 INFO: Checking configuration... 2007-09-17 18:59:59 ERROR: Error in config file: tag not found What shall I do?!? Please help me....

has anyone been able to get mpg/jpeg files to come up on the ps3. my mp3's are working fine but I can't get ps3 to see any mpg/jpeg files that I am sharing in MT. I added extra mime-extensions esp. for jpeg to config.xml and still no luck. any insight appreciated as always.

Has anyone had their ps3 recognize .mp4 filetypes for video? I used handbrake as well and converted to mp4- but my ps3 won't see the files.

Fink can't find the mediatomb package.. edited config to include unstable - how'd you guys do it? Has it been removed?

Thanks! completed all steps and got it working...but does this mean i need to launch mediatomb each time i boot up? is there any way to get it to open at login as a daemon? thanks

Got it working sweet, except all mp3 are unsupported! any ideas?

Thanks for the article. I got everything working except for playing mp4 files which was the main reason i wanted to strem to my ps3. Has anyone got mp4 streaming working?

@Benny: Had the same problem - no subfolders showing. The mediatomb web pages recommend Firefox for running the UI, and I was running Safari, so I switched to Firefox. Suddenly all the subfolders were available. If you are running Safari, try using a different browser to load the web pages. I was able to load image media and stream it to a PS3. I'm still having a little trouble with music and video - still trying.

"Failed: no package found for specification ‘mediatomb’!" Did you initially select to use point release instead of rsync? ...rsync is the default and it will correct that error. If you only installed Fink for mediatomb, then run this command: sudo rm -rf /sw ...then start the procedure again from the beginning, only selecting the default options supplied by Fink. For MP4 Video files and MP4 Audio files, use the following mimetypes: ---- ---- then rename any MP4 Audio files to the *.mp4a file extension. Run mediatomb for the first time in order for it to generate the ~/.mediatomb/config.xlm file... ie: nano ~/.mediatomb/config.xml Great proc James, thanks for posting this...cheers.

mimetypes to use: map from="mp4" to="video/mp4"/ map from="mp4a" to="audio/mp4"/

Thank you so much for the tutorial! Finally got it working. I was getting an, "ERROR: main: upnp error -203". I opened port 49152 through my firewall and router. And restarted computer and it worked!! Gonna go fire up my PS3 and see if I can jam some mp3's downstairs! Thanks again.

Got the server setup and music is working fine but video and images are not - even for those that I know for a fact work. I believe it has something to do with mime-types so I checked the mime-types for the file in terminal through file -i and it says application/octet-stream. I don't think it should say this (it also says this in the Mediatomb UI) so any help would seriously be good please. Files I am reffering to are ps3 compatible mp4's and jpeg images.

Same here, everythings ok Mediatomb shows up in the PS3, but i wont see files that it should. Looking at the Mediatomb UI mine also say: application/octet-stream Anybody got any ideas?

Great article... was a real help. After a few problems, it seems everything's coming up Milhouse. Thanks again.

Hey, is there a way to stream avi videos? I added the tags into the config file and it is says unsupported data. Same for using . Anyone come up with a solution?

The tags I added didn't show up in the html. Let me try this [code] and [/code] Ok, niether of those tags suporrt avi.

Thanks for this great guide! I got it to work (after specifying my Mac's IP in the config.xml). The longest part was waiting for the MediaTomb installer to download, but oh well. Now we just need the PS3 to support more media formats, or transcoding. Good stuff, much appreciated!

Hello there, thanks for this great tutorial. I'm having some problems saving the config file, mumble mumble stuff and something about permissions. Also, I had to force quit terminal while mediatomb was running, now it won't start up again, I tried restarting my computer but no luck. Thanks in Advance my email princeair [at] shaw.ca

This writeup is an excellent tutorial for getting started! Knowing apt certainly helps when fink gets stuck, I don't any tutorial can teach that, but the logical steps are perfect. Thanks

Great tutorial. Found it a little easier using the fink commander and even easier once I installed nano for the editing. Now my PS3 can see all my mp3s but the actual songs are listed as unsupported data. Any help would be apreciated. Thanks, LB

fixed my problem by adding the following between the server tags Now I can play my mp3's but they have an * at the end of the titles, oh well i can live with that.

Wow, so many problems with this, where to begin. 1. If the command ends with “Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies” please enter the following: $ sudo fink scanpackages; apt-get update; fink update-all At this part I enter the sudo fink........update-all and i still finish with, “Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies” 2. The config.xml file is no where to be found 3. When trying to run mediatomb with sudo I get error 203 That's as far as I can get because the config.xml file doesn't exist, I get permission failures as well as run failures in trying to create and edit the config.xml What is going on here and how have people actually had success doing this?????

All of the files that mediatomb see say (not supported). Does anyone have a sample config file that shows mime types for all PS3 supported mime types, including AAC? I would love it if I could get some help with this part. Up to this it's worked, but now I can see files but can't read them. Thanks in advance for any help. NICE

hi i have the same problem as "Shammyshoo" with the config.xml it just comes up blank when i type in my user extension. i have searched the hard drive using finder and its no where to be found. please help

to add to my earlier post, every thing went well although it did say "WARNING: Unable to parse the line "Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap.pl" at line 1 of "/sw/etc/fink.conf"." as i tried running the install again for meediatomb

2007-12-09 12:07:02 INFO: Configuration check succeeded. 2007-12-09 12:07:02 INFO: Initialized port: 49152 2007-12-09 12:07:02 INFO: Server bound to: 192.168.0.5 ERROR: writeBookmark: failed to open: /Users/alchemist/.mediatomb/mediatomb.html ...how do i fix this?

Anyone have any luck with Leopard? I can't seem to get it to compile.

Hi All, Just wanted to add my 2p worth! Been following the steps listed here and I have to say on the whole it has been a spot on tutorial. Other people's posts have been most helpful when I have been getting stuck. Just thought I would share some of my experiences... 1) Had to upgrade my Powermac G5 from 10.3.9 Server to 10.4 otherwise Xcode would not install. 2) Installed Xcode as part of the OS10.4 Install. 3) Downloaded and installed Fink - pretty much to the letter, had to change a few of the mirror servers before I found one that worked. 4) Edited the fink.conf file as required (if it comes up with that mumble mumble error, it will say something about destroying the changes (n), just press y and then CRTL-X to exit). 5) Installed mediatomb using fink which took the best part of an hour on my machine after it had unpacked and installed everything. But did it eventually. 6) Now the next command says to edit the config which as one of the other posts quite correctly stated won't work until you run mediatomb for that first time. So type"mediatomb" first, exit that screen, the config.xml file is then created in your user directory and the rest of the instructions then work. 7) Added as many of the mime extensions listed and suggested by other posts. I have not had to give my Mac a static IP address and it is wired into my Netgear Wireless router (as is the PS3), nor have I had to alter any firewall settings. 8) The Mac is seen straight away on my PS3 and it will play MP3's, WMA's and iTunes format with no problems. This was after the 2.10 system update. Not tried pictures and its sees all my videos just won't play them :o( I will keep you guys posted. Keep up the good work and I hope this helps someone else :o)

How the hell do you launch mediatomb for the first time to create the .mediatomb file??????? I tried typing "mediatomb" in terminal, I tried typing "run mediatomb", "{sudo mediatomb". Nothing works!

Thanks for the informative page. It took some time to build but I got it working. For those using cut and paste from this page: There should be no spaces between the " you would need to remove the space between "

Hmm, I finally got to a stage where I am able to write the config.xml file (despite it not sowing up anywhere in my finder) but when i try to save it gives me the mumble mumble, then "[ Could not open file for writing: Permission denied ]" And when I then try to run mediatomb with the unsaved modified version I get this error: ERROR: SQLITE3: (8) attempt to write a readonly database Query:UPDATE "mt_autoscan" SET "touched"=0 WHERE "persistent"=1 AND "scan_mode"='timed' error: attempt to write a readonly database I have been at this for weeks, please could someone who knows how this works tell what is going wrong here???

A few helpful things I found on other sites: 1. I stole this from an anonymous post elsewhere, so props to them. If you're getting the invalid character sequence thing then you will need to add the following in ~/.mediatomb/config.xml in import-section: ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 Note that you have to delete the database (~/.mediatomb/mediatomb.db) and re-import the tracks for this to take effect. 2. If you get the DLNA 2103 error this is caused by the server crashing not the client. I was getting it because my external was sleeping and then it wouldn't wake unless I manually woke it from my computer (mediatomb wouldn't wake it for some reason). Once I got the external out of sleep the error went away. Weird thing was that it was still showing some of the folders when it was sleeping (cached on my computron I guess . . .?) 3. If all the servers are timing out you can manually get the pieces elsewhere then "dpkg *.deb" to depackage them. Thanks for all the great comments above! I hadn't touched command line till I installed this, and it wasn't too bad. Good tutorial.

Does anyone have instructions on how to upgrade from v0.9.0 to v0.10.0 on a MAC running OS 10.4.11... Any help is appreciated!!!

I found out how to edit the config.xml file. Type "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE" in Terminal and all the hidden system files will be visible. Go into get info for config.xml and unlock its permissions. You can then save the changes in Terminal. But now I am getting a 203 error when trying to open mediatomb that i was not getting before I was able to change the config.xml file. can't run it in sudo either.

Am able to run mediatomb in sudo after a restart. Very strange thing is that my PS3 can see the folders of everything but the only media that it sees and plays are video files. All of my folders of music and pictures show up as empty on the PS3. I would have thought MP3s would be the easiest thing to stream.

finally got this thing to work with unprotected AAC files. But it didn't add a lot of them, so that's the next step. i added: in the config.xml, then saved it. ran mediatomb again and sure enough no more "unsupported type"! yay! so these past few days weren't a waste! can anyone help me get all of the files into the mediatomb database? any other ideas on adding files to the databases? don't really like the all audio in every artists folder. i'd rather just have the albums/artists. i dont need the genre and year. any ideas? thanks!!

I'm seeing a problem from a bunch of people (including me). I see the entire folder structure, but I don't see any files in the folders. This problem has been seen by Drew and Shammyshoo and several others. My process: Fink installation of mediatomb 0.10.0 (compiled for Leopard) Open X11, type mediatomb Added mp3s and jpegs from the filestream to the database. Closed mediatomb Changed config file to include "" Started mediatomb again Result: The playstation shows the folders that I moved to the database but says there are "no files in folder" Does anyone have a solution to this problems? Thanks

O.K I have solved the problem of empty folders and now I have working mp3's. My pictures don't work but I think i need to change the mimetype. My suggestion to solving the problem of having empty folders with no files is as follows: 1) Restart your computer (I have seen this work on another blog) 2) You can only access music from the music player on the PS3. I was accidentally accessing the media server under the PS3 Video drop down and I was trying to access a music folder. When you do this, the PS3 will say that there is no files. I came so far without any problems just to do something really stupid at the end. :) Good luck

YAY! I finally did it! So thanks to everyones comments, I finally got to the point where MediaTomb was running and it showed up on my PS3. I was having the same problem as a lot of people where my mp3s where playing fine but I couldn't get any images or videos to work, but I finally figured it out after a whole day playing with the thing!!! Just as a side note first. Before I started adding filesystems to the database there was an Audio folder and a PC Directory folder already in the Database. That's how I was getting my music to play by going into the Audio folder on my PS3. I couldn't get any videos or audio files from my PC Directory folder to play, which was really weird cause I had already played the same songs from the Audio folder, so I added another folder to the Database and called it "Video". That's all I did. When I went to the PS3 into the new Video folder I had made all my video podcasts were available! It must draw from itunes I guess. Anyway, it worked. Ok, now to the more exciting part. I added filesystems to the PC Directory and I could navigate to them on the PS3 but kept getting "there are no titles" in the folders. Ok, here's what I did. 1. In MediaTomb navigate to the file you want to play from the Database. 2. After the name of the file there is an X icon and a pencil writing on a piece of paper icon. Click on the paper icon. Information on the file comes up 3. If the Class field just says "object.item" change it to "object.item.imageItem" or "object.item.videoItem" depending on the type of file. 4. If the Mimetype says "application/octet-stream" change it to whatever mimetype it should be. Like I had an avi file and I changed it to "video/divx". 5. Lastly click on the update item... button Then I searched for media servers on my PS3 so it updated the stream and there it was! I hope that helps with some of you that were having the same problem I was.

Excuse my ignorance but writing code is new to me so... After following the directions I finally get to the command to run mediatomb only to be told 'command not found.' I've done the 'fink update-all' and still get this command

@Nabroc: mediatomb is in the /sw/bin directory by default. try: /sw/bin/mediatomb instead. or you can modify your path to have the /sw/bin directory included. its something like this: Open or create the file called .bashrc in your home directory, and then type in the following: PATH=/sw/bin:$PATH export PATH

I cannot modify the config.xml file. It seems to be a read only file. Can someone please help?? Very tired and frustrated!! Thanks

@Lane: use "chmod +w filename" to get write permissions, then edit in nano as specified. for example: chmod +w /Users/james.ho/.mediatomb/config.xml

Thanks for the help RAJ. I have everything installed, I have edited the config.xml file with the protocolinfo tag and my ip tag. However, when I run mediatomb i get the error -203 cannot bind to socket…etc. Can someone help me? It would be appreciated. thank you Lane

Thanks for the help Raj. I'm very green at writing code and got as far as seeing Mediatomb appear on the ps3 but it shows 'unsupported data' so I went back into config.xml to doublecheck everything and now I get an error (when trying to ctl+s/ctl+x) saying "ERROR: Error parsing config file: /Users/curtcorban/.mediatomb/config.xml line 1: unexpected symbol:n Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Stand by... after trying to go back in and mimic what was input w/the screen captures I now get this... 2008-02-24 12:28:31 ERROR: Error parsing config file: /Users/curtcorban/.mediatomb/config.xml line 41: unexpected end of input Any Gurus out there?

@Nabroc: I don't think the screenshots on this page are enough...they don't have the full config.xml file. If you copied that verbatim, you don't have the full file. I think that deleting the entire .mediatomb directory should do the trick (i.e. it will generate a fresh config.xml). Try this (at your own risk): cd ~ rm -rf .mediatomb Then run mediatomb again.

how do you stream from a mac with leopard?? Because Fink isn't supporting yet. tnx suuzz (sorry for my bad english)

@suuzz, check out "MediaLink" by the fine folks at Nullriver. http://www.nullriver.com/products/medialink For $20, and a little time tweaking my router, this is the way to go for Mac users.

Just stumbled upon this discussion - the first question that comes to my mind: if you have problems with MediaTomb - why wouldn't you ask in our forums or in our support channel? We are not that evil and we're actually quite responsive to user requests ;) The new release will be out very soon, this will hopefully fix the compile error that is present in the 0.10.0 version, so things should become easier again. Until then you'd either have to wait or compile (which might not be the best for someone who just wants to use the app). If you have specific questions please ask in our forums at sourceforge or talk to us in IRC - links are posted on our website. Kind regards, Jin

cannot get MediaTomb running at startup in MAC OSX, done everything supposedly correct according StartupItem but yet to get MediaTomb run correct at startup, any idea?

"ERROR main: upnp error -203" If you're running Miro then quit it - that may solve your issues.

Ohhh use this http://www.deben.de/net.jcr.mediatomb.plist.zip i zipped the plist

i need some help: after installing mediatomb and modifying the config I get this: 2008-03-18 15:31:09 INFO: Loading configuration from: /Users/Oli/.mediatomb/config.xml 2008-03-18 15:31:09 INFO: Checking configuration... 2008-03-18 15:31:09 ERROR: /home/Oli/.mediatomb : 20 x No such file or directory

1. change back your modification-then try again to start mediatomb 2. remove the .mediatob-directory (rm -R ~/.mediatomb) - start mediatomb again- then you have a new .mediatomb-directory (all your modifications are lost then)

thanks! it works

Did anyone notice that MP4's and certain AVI's no longer play with the new 2.17 update????

Does anyone succeed in playing video with external subtitles by using transcoding options? I tried, I tried but it still does'nt work...

"the first question that comes to my mind: if you have problems with MediaTomb - why wouldn’t you ask in our forums or in our support channel?" well perhaps because like others I came here after first googling MediaTomb and finding a single line about Mac support - "use fink". But multiple lines on other distros such as Ubuntu. So then I googled "fink mediatomb" and voila, here was this helpful blog post.

A great solution to what I wanted to do (which is to play movies from my mac via my PS3). This link has a neat solution "http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=707579&highlight=Medialink" All I did was - enable web sharing - zip up the files in my /user/sites folder - copy the files (movies I wanted to watch) - use my ps3 browser to go to my web site //192.168.1.2/~user/ - select the movie I wanted and play it. I also saved my link, so I can easily access it the next time. This works great for what I wanted.

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Genius - worked for me like a treat. Only issue I found was that I had to run 'fink install mediatomb' twice, as the first time it failed due to a problem with the xfree86 installation.

Oddy Oh is right about Null River's Media Link - I didn't want to delve 'under the hood' of my Mac, so to speak, in order to get the PS3 & Mac talking to each other. Everything immediately worked (30 minute trial period), no router tweaking required. Immediate $20 purchase, and many thanks to Oddy Oh. Good stuff.

Any ideas on how to enable 'transcoding', now that Mediatomb 0.11.0 is out? I managed to get it upgraded, and following some instructions on Mediatomb's site I've added 'flv' lines to my config file. But now Mediatomb won't start, it says I'm missing vlc...which is true. Any idea how to install the binary or whatever of VLC? Thanks. I hope MediaLink can add transcoding soon, but I thought I'd try Mediatomb again in the meantime.

Excellent tutorial! Very good and thorough job. but I am facing a small problem though, I get an unknown host message when trying to connect to the UI (http://10.19.1.171:49152). Can anyone please guide me to the right direction? thanks alot

Does anyone know how to have parallels w/ Windows XP + TVersity set up on there in order to stream media from my iMac to the PS3?

Does anyone know how to have parallels w/ Windows XP + TVersity set up on there in order to stream media from my iMac to the PS3?

Excellent tutorial , though still strugling. When I am trying to install mediatomb i get the following message - Failed: phase compiling: openmotif3-2.2.4-1 failed Does anyone know how to fix it ?

I see the mp3 files. But when I play them, I just get a pretty purple background and absolutely zero music coming out my speakers. What am I missing?

I am also experiencing: Failed: phase compiling: openmotif3-2.2.4-1 failed.

I get to the point where Im supposed to install the packages by running the command $ fink install mediatomb however the result is - Macintosh:~ Snigguh$ fink install mediatomb Scanning package description files.......... Information about 2515 packages read in 1 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification 'mediatomb'! Can anyone help me on this please?

Hi, Just a quick noet to those having the problem "I can launch Mediatomb but the PS3 will not find it" The way I got around this was by starting Mediatomb using the flag -e which specifies the network interface to use. In my case I was using en1 (my mac wireless interface. eg: $ mediatomb -e en1 The PS3 then picked up Mediatomb instantly. You can also use the flag -i for selecting an ip address eg: mediatomb -i 192.168.X.X Hope this helps some of you because it's had me stumped for about an hour now :O)

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I did everything you say, but when I try: fink install mediatomb It says: Information about 4815 packages read in 1 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification 'mediatomb'! Even tried with sudo fink install mediatomb With same result. How do I get this to work?

I did everything you say, but when I try: fink install mediatomb It says: Information about 4815 packages read in 1 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification 'mediatomb'! Even tried with sudo fink install mediatomb With same result. How do I get this to work?

To correct the "Failed: no package found for specification 'mediatomb'!" run "fink selfupdate" and chose to change the default selfudate method to rsync, maybe a new "sudo fink selfupdate; fink scanpackages; fink index" will be necessary.

To correct the "Failed: no package found for specification 'mediatomb'!" run "fink selfupdate" and chose to change the default selfudate method to rsync, maybe a new "sudo fink selfupdate; fink scanpackages; fink index" will be necessary.

pdq - i just tried that, but still got the same error when i tried to install mediatomb

Thanks pdq it worked for me

Thanks pdq it worked for me

i cant get past the fink installation because i have osx 10.5 it says that fink cannot be installed where can i find the up to date version?

i cant get past the fink installation because i have osx 10.5 it says that fink cannot be installed where can i find the up to date version?

Not to twist this but you can also use macport to install MediaTomb. mac port can be found http://www.macports.org/install.php Once installed pull up the terminal window; sudo to root and run this command (MAKE SURE Your In The ROOT Home Directory): echo 'export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile Now exit sudo Update macport with svn by running: sudo port -v selfupdate Now run: sudo port install MediaTomb All the needed packages should download and install.