No this should work. I tested it. Once you copied the file to the media dir you have to wait at least 60s until it will be discovered. 60s is the default setting for notify_interval. The latest build I announced today contains a new settings that allows to change the 60s default.

Hello Kong and everybody,

Above all, great job Kong

Here is a note:

I am under 7.

Installing the firmware: OK
The external drive is fat 32:
- The DLNA server works fine fat 32 (video, image, music).
- Samba is working properly (read / write)

I converted my external drive to NTFS (using the convert command of Microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881) (because it is a possibility of firwmware), and now the DLNA server doesn't work, that is to say impossible to see the contents of directories ... ..

Does someone had the same problem ????

Lamalicefr

Hello Kong,

Yes Samba works correctly.

If I format the drive directly to NTFS, the result is the same....

Lamalicefr

OK Kong,

If i can help you for testing something....

Hi Kong,
Thanks for the good work.
I've got one issue though,
When I start the minidlna it finds all media perfect.
But after a short while it looses al the data and i have to restart minidlna manualy.

Ok So I am new to this open source router bit, but I am starting to get the feel of it. This is the setup I am going for so anyone please tell me if I going down the wrong path

1. I have 2 WNR3500L's, One which is the Primary running upstairs in the office and one which is running as a Repeater Bridge downstairs next to the TV.

2. I decided that I will reformat my 2TB Hard drive to ext3 and connect it to the Repeater Bridge. I will enable SAMBA and miniDLNA here. My Media extender will be connected to this router so I figured I will connect my media drive here. I stream HD movies >2gb so I figured I should just do the better performing ext3 over NTFS, since I had to reformat it from exFAT anyway.

3. I have another 500 GB drive that I will use for all my data that I will reformat to ext3 and connect it to the Primary Router in the office with SAMBA enabled.

So thats my setup, so here are my questions

1. Will I get better performance using WDS instead of Repeater Bridge?

2. Can I connect an USB drive to the repeater similar to the primary router without any crazy problems or do I need to do a little extra to make that work?

3. What is the best way to partition the drive with this release? I read somewhere I should do 4 partitions for optware (ext3), swapfile (linux-swap), data (ext3), and jffs (ext3).

4. With SAMBA enabled will I be able to transfer media files directly to my miniDLNA media shares through windows networking? and Will this have any effect on the miniDLNA?

5. n3IVI0 asked a question about renaming the miniDLNA to a different name other than DD-WRT, is there a way to do this?

6. Any other recommendations would be much appreciated.

Ok thats it I hope it is not too much, I'm kind of a newb to this, I worked a little in Linux before but it has been a while. Between here, the dd-wrt forums and everywhere else I have found tons of info, but I just want to make sure I do this right.

jnmoore said: Can miniDLNA recurse directories or do all the media files have to be dumped into the root/share path? I ask because for testing purposes I initially just threw a few mp3's together and everything worked fine. More recently though, I have been having problems but I'm guessing it's because I finally got around to importing my real music library, which is in a typical iTunes directory tree: Music Share Folder -> Artist Name Folder -> Album Name Folder -> Media Files If I really do have to dump everything into a single root folder, is there a limit to the number of files in a single directory (Ext3 file system)? Thx!

Yes it will recurse directories. There is no real limit of files you can have this depends rather on the size of your partition and this can even be tuned when you create the fs. I don't think you will hit any limits here. The limit that will be first hit is the limit of ram that will be consumed by minidlnas indexing db.

In that case there are only two explanations, either the router is out of memory by the time you copy the files. Or inotify is broken. Last time I tested it worked.

Two things to test, enter a db path(e.g. /jffs/minidlnadb) in minidlnas web interface. Don't set the path to any existing path, as this could erase the content in there in case you manually start minidlna with -R flag.

And you can try again by copying some files then wait for about 5 min if they still don't show up let me know.

johnny said: Hey kong this worked!! thank you!! I was about to give up on this. Now I have 2 questions.. by putting a db path (e.g. /jffs/minidlnadb) I now have a folder in my directory named "minidlnadb" is this normal and can it be deleted? Can I delete the paths from pictures, videos and music and just leave the db path? Also I noticed when I transfer a new file it gets refreshed right away there's no waiting the 120s which is great.

Once you set the path, minidlna stores it's index db inside /jffs/minidlnadb you can always delete it, since it will be recreated once minidlna is stopped/started or the router is rebooted. But that costs cpu time, especially if the media directorys hold lots of files.

No the video/picture .. paths are needed and tell minidlna where to look for current and where to watch for new files.

The 120s is the time interval minidlna refreshes. In easy terms, minidlna opens up a drawer every 120s. Now if someone threw in some socks 5s before minidlna opens it up again they will show up 5s after. In the worst case it will be after 120s or in case lots of files were added 120s + the time it needs to index the files.