Introduction

The Sony Play station 3 is a DLNA compatible device, DLNA is a framework where home electronics can share digital media and content seamlessly. This tutorial will provide instructions on setting up your Ubuntu hardy computer to share your video, music and photos, allowing you to play them through your DLNA compatible devices. Although several other open source media servers exist, i chose to use Fuppes due to its built in support for transcoding.

Requirements

• Sony Play station 3 console (or other DLNA capable console/device)
• Computer running ubuntu linux with working WLAN interface
• Wireless LAN
• Working internet connection (to download package)
• Media to be shared

Installation

• Download and install the fuppes debian package that i have packaged

wget http://www.topdog-software.com/oss/fuppes/fuppes_0+svn611-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i fuppes_0+svn611-1_i386.deb

Configuration

• Edit the fuppes configuration file /etc/fuppes/fuppes.cfg and the the interface option, in my case i will be using the ip address 192.168.1.1.

192.168.1.1

• Start fuppes and point your browser to http://192.168.1.1:56596
  • Select configuration on the menu on the left
  • Under “ContentDirectory settings” -> Add objects, Type the name of the directory you want to share media from (you can also share an itunes db) then click “submit query”
  • Add as many directories as you want; I added the following

/etc/init.d/fuppes restart

/home/andrew/Videos
/home/andrew/Music
/home/andrew/Pictures

• Rebuild the media database
• Select Options on the menu on the left
• Click “rebuild database”
• Monitor the status of the rebuild on the status page, you will see the counters increase as you media is indexed.
• Configure multicast route on your machine for the media server to be found by clients, create a file /etc/network/if-up/fuppes with the following content (substitute the interface for the one you are using on your machine)

#!/bin/bash
#
# in this case eth1 is my WLAN interface change to match yours
if [ "$IFACE" = "eth1" ]; then
        ip ro add 239.0.0.0/8 dev eth1
        /etc/init.d/fuppes restart &>/dev/null
fi

Testing

Sony Play Station 3

Connect to your PS3 and go to Video and then select search for media servers, if all went well you should find your media server named fuppes, select that and go to a folder with videos select and play. Repeat this procedure for your music and picture.

Nokia N95

Go to tools -> Connectivity -> Home media -> Browse media. You N95 will connect to the WLAN and begin searching and should find your fuppes media server, select it and you will see your folders, From there you can play your media and view your content or copy it to your device.

Xbox

Fuppes does support Xbox as well, I have not used it however as I do not own one.

Sample configuration files

• /etc/fuppes/fuppes.cfg

  /home/andrew/Music
  /home/andrew/Videos
  /home/andrew/Pictures

    
    192.168.1.1
    
    56596
    

      

    

    UTF-8
    
    true
    true
    true

    
    lame
    
true
true
true

    

      
      0
      
file
      false
      true
4

        

          AUDIO_ITEM
          audio/mpeg
MP3

          AUDIO_ITEM
          application/octet-stream

            mp3
            audio/mpeg
MP3
            chunked
            vorbis
            lame
            192
            44100

          AUDIO_ITEM
          application/octet-stream

            mp3
            audio/mpeg
MP3
            chunked
            musepack
            lame
            192
            44100

          AUDIO_ITEM
          audio/x-wav

          AUDIO_ITEM
          audio/x-flac

            mp3
            audio/mpeg
MP3
            chunked
            flac
            lame
            192
            44100

          AUDIO_ITEM
          audio/x-ms-wma
WMAFULL

        

          jpeg
          IMAGE_ITEM
          image/jpeg

            
            png
            image/png
            0
            0
            
            false
            
            false
            

          IMAGE_ITEM
          image/bmp

          IMAGE_ITEM
          image/png

          IMAGE_ITEM
          image/gif

        

          mpeg
          VIDEO_ITEM
          video/mpeg

          VIDEO_ITEM
          video/mp4

          VIDEO_ITEM
          video/avi

          VIDEO_ITEM
          video/x-ms-wmv

          VIDEO_ITEM
          video/x-ms-vob

          VIDEO_ITEM
          video/x-extension-vdr

            vob
            video/x-ms-vob

          VIDEO_ITEM
          application/x-flash-video

          VIDEO_ITEM
          video/x-ms-asf

        

          PLAYLIST
          audio/x-scpls

          PLAYLIST
          audio/x-mpegurl

    

      UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.00
      PLAYSTATION3
      
      true
50

          AUDIO_ITEM_MUSIC_TRACK

            stream

      %s %v : 1 : Windows Media Connect
      Windows Media Connect compatible (%s)
      2.0

      Xbox/2.0.\d+.\d+ UPnP/1.0 Xbox/2.0.\d+.\d+
      Xenon
      true

      
      
container
      true

      dma/1.0 \(http://www.cybertan.com.tw/\)
      UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.00
file
      101

• /etc/fuppes/vfolder.cfg

vfolder

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