1. Download the latest version of the “file” program from ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ (my case the current is 5.03)
2. Unzip/untar the file
3. Configure and run make:

3. There are a bunch of other requirements for mediatomb, the easiest way to get them is to use www.blastwave.org. The packages that I installed are:
CSWbdb4
CSWbzip2
CSWcurl
CSWcurlrt
CSWexpat
CSWfaac
CSWfaad2
CSWfconfig
CSWffmpeg
CSWffmpeglib
CSWftype2
CSWgcc3corert
CSWgcc3g++rt
CSWgcrypt
CSWggettext
CSWgpgerr
CSWiconv
CSWid3lib
CSWimlib2
CSWisaexec
CSWlame
CSWliba52
CSWlibid3tag
CSWlibidn
CSWlibnet
CSWlibogg
CSWlibsdl
CSWlibssh2
CSWlibtool
CSWlibtoolrt
CSWlibx11
CSWlibxau
CSWlibxcb
CSWlibxdmcp
CSWncurses
CSWoldaprt
CSWossl
CSWossldevel
CSWosslrt
CSWosslutils
CSWpixman
CSWpng
CSWsasl
CSWsdlmixer
CSWsqlite3
CSWsqlite3dev
CSWstl4
CSWsunmath
CSWtaglibgcc
CSWtheora
CSWtiff
CSWungif
CSWvorbis
CSWxvid
CSWzlib

4. Once these are installed, you can download mediatomb and compile it. http://mediatomb.cc/pages/download

However before you can run gmake, you need to edit a couple of files. One is the src/main.cc, you need to comment out lines 128 through 141. This is not needed for Solaris. The second file to edit is a result of this:

During the compile I got an error that looked like this:

To fix it edit the src/url.cc file and on line 78 change it from this:

to this :

Then rerun gmake . Once the compile is finished, su to root and do a gmake install, it will place all the media tomb stuff in /mediatomb. (I am using a Zone on a Solaris 10 machine so / has plenty of space).

I then created a user for mediatomb to be run under, so a user and group called mediatmb were created, and all the /mediatomb directories and files were changed to be owned by mediatmb

Once that was done, login as the mediatmb user and create a script in /mediatmb/bin with the following in it:

where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the machine you are running it on. In Constantin’s blog, he mentioned also using the interface, but I found that it had problems since this was a zone. So instead of using the interface, I used the IP address of the zone.

The changes I made to the config.xml in the ~/.mediatomb directory are as follows:

Now all you have to do is login to the web interface and add the media, following mediatomb’s documentation.

Some interesting things I have found with it:

1. If your PS3 is on wireless it may have problems streaming mp4, but not mpeg2. Weird I know as the mpeg2 was solid streaming at 370kb/s, but it couldn’t handle the mp4. Switching to a hardwired connection fixed that problem.

2. If you happen to be a ReplayTV user [cause TiVO is a wanna be replay ] you can use MediaTomb in conjunction with DVArchive, which also runs nicely in my Solaris zone. Just point a media directory at the Local_Guide directory and mediatomb will stream every MPEG2 file in that directory to your PS3. Which is pretty damn cool.

3. The PS3 is very pickly about it’s mp4 type files. Some that I made with handbrake don’t work, but ones I did with ffmpegx worked once I put the hardwired connection in.

4. I have not tried any of the transcoding stuff. I would rather do that before and not bog down my server doing that.

5. I need to do a lot of reading on how to make folders and the such so that my collection is organized and not just all under one directory.

For those interested:
My compile environment is setup like this: