mediatomb

• download source from http://mediatomb.cc/
• install mysql, and make sure to build with --enable-thread-safe-client
• install spidermonkey, and make sure to copy header file into js/src
• build mediatomb

  ./configure \
  --prefix=/usr/local \
  --mandir=/usr/local/man \
  --infodir=/usr/local/info \
  --enable-mysql \
  --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
  --enable-libjs \
  --with-js-h=/Users/billh/builds/js/src
  
  make
  
  sudo make install

• setup mysql database to only allow local connections from mediatomb

  <login to mysql>
  create database mediatomb;
  grant all on mediatomb.* to 'mediatomb'@'localhost';

• start mediatomb (allow it to create ~/.mediatomb/<files>)
• after it sets up files and is running, type ctrl-c to shutdown mediatomb
• edit ~/.mediatomb/config.xml

  ...
      <storage>
  
        <!-- <sqlite3 enabled="yes">
          <database-file>mediatomb.db</database-file>
        </sqlite3> -->
  
  		<mysql enabled="yes">
  			<host>localhost</host>
  			<username>mediatomb</username>
  			<database>mediatomb</database>
  		</mysql>
      </storage>
      <protocolInfo extend="yes"/><!-- For PS3 support change to "yes" -->
  ...
  	<port>49152</port>
    </server>
  ...
      <mappings>
        <extension-mimetype ignore-unknown="no">
  		<map from="mp3" to="audio/mpeg"/>
  		<map from="ogg" to="application/ogg"/>
  		<map from="asf" to="video/x-ms-asf"/>
  		<map from="asx" to="video/x-ms-asf"/>
  		<map from="wma" to="audio/x-ms-wma"/>
  		<map from="wax" to="audio/x-ms-wax"/>
  		<map from="wmv" to="video/x-ms-wmv"/>
  		<map from="wvx" to="video/x-ms-wvx"/>
  		<map from="wm" to="video/x-ms-wm"/>
  		<map from="wmx" to="video/x-ms-wmx"/>
  		<map from="m3u" to="audio/x-mpegurl"/>
  		<map from="pls" to="audio/x-scpls"/>
  		<map from="flv" to="video/x-flv"/>
  		<map from="avi" to="video/divx"/>
  		<map from="mpg" to="video/mpeg"/>
  		<map from="mpeg" to="video/mpeg"/>
  		<map from="gif" to="image/gif"/>
  		<map from="jpg" to="image/jpeg"/>
  		<map from="png" to="image/png"/>
  		<map from="mp4" to="video/mp4"/>
  		<map from="mp4a" to="audio/mp4a"/>
  		<map from="m4v" to="video/mp4"/>
  		<map from="3gp" to="video/3gpp"/>
  		<map from="mts" to="video/mpeg"/>
  		<map from="m2ts" to="video/mpeg"/>
  
  

• start mediatomb again - db tables will be created in mysql
• add any files you want to share in the web based UI at http://<host>:49152/

After completing the above steps, do the following to have mediatomb run securely on startup:

• shut down mediatomb
• edit config.xml
  • disable the UI so everyone won't have access to see every file on your host

      <server>
        <ui enabled="no">

  • remove the <home> reference line

    <!-- delete or comment out this line entirely -->
    <home>/your/home/dir/.mediatomb</home>

• move the .mediatomb directory out of your home folder to /usr/local/mediatomb (no dot)
• change the permissions to nobody

  sudo chown -R nobody:nobody /usr/local/mediatomb

• create a Mac StartupItem, using the following

  #!/bin/sh
   
  ##
  # Configure MediaTomb Server
  ##
   
  . /etc/rc.common
   
  StartService ()
  {
      if [ "${MEDIATOMB:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then
  		ConsoleMessage "Starting MediaTomb Server"
  		now=`date +%s`
  		let "limit = $now + 60"
   
  		/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -s -u root --password=rootpass status > /dev/null
  		while [ $? -ne 0 ] && [ $now -lt $limit ]
  		do
  				let "now = `date +%s`"
  				if [ $now -ge $limit ]; then
  					ConsoleMessage "MediaTomb could not be started because MySQL was not running after the timeout limit"
  					exit 1
  				fi
   
  				/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -s -u root --password=rootpass status > /dev/null
  		done
   
  		sudo -u nobody /usr/local/bin/mediatomb --daemon --home /usr/local --cfgdir mediatomb --logfile /usr/local/var/mediatomb.log
  	fi
   
  }
   
  StopService ()
  {
  	ConsoleMessage "Stopping MediaTomb Server"
  	sudo killall -15 mediatomb
  }
   
  RestartService ()
  {
      if [ "${MEDIATOMB:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then
  		ConsoleMessage "Restarting MediaTomb Server"
  		sudo killall -1 mediatomb
      else
          StopService
      fi
   
  }
   
  RunService "$1"

• Note: may also build with libjs, libmagic, id3lib, taglib