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How-To: Mediatomb, Mac and DirecTV HDPVR

19 January, 2009 (16:26) | Uncategorized

I finally had a chance to get Mediatomb (a uPnP media server) working from my powermac. Now it’s happily serving up video to my DirecTV HR20/21s. Given a fresh install of leopard, here’s what you need to do….

  1. Install Xcode tools – you can get em off your install discs or from developer.apple.com.
  2. Install mac ports.
  3. Open a new terminal and run sudo ports install mediatomb
  4. Now run sudo ports deactivate mediatomb
  5. Download the mediatomb code via cvs: In a terminal run: svn co https://svn.mediatomb.cc/svnroot/mediatomb/trunk/mediatomb mediatomb
  6. In terminal, “cd mediatomb” to get into the directory of code you just pulled down.
  7. In terminal run “./configure”, then run make and “sudo make install”.
  8. run “mediatomb” to set up the database and create the initial config.
  9. in terminal, “cd” then “cd .mediatomb”, then “ls”.You’ll see a list of config files. Edit config.xml with your favorite editor.
  10. Follow the instructions in the mediatomb wiki for the HR2x DVRs to edit the config.
  11. Download and install VLC if you don’t already have it.
  12. Edit config.xml once more and replace the lines with <agent command=”vlc” with <agent command=”/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC”
  13. Run mediatomb, add your media with your web browser and go watch some video.

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