Minidlna multiple storage locations

[tophee]

Hi,

I am running 9.1.0-release and I have minidlna working. It serves music around my house, but I also want it to serve my videos for various dlna enabled devices, such as my Xbox 360.

My music lives in a volume at /mnt/Server/Music and I ave the destination in the minidlna setup as a folder /music. I added an additional folder called /video and added a second storage entry pointing to the mount for my videos /mnt/Server/Videos.

Minidlna only saw one of these mounts, usually the music mount point. In the configuration menu I tried to add "Auxiliary Parameters", such as "media_dir=V,/mnt/Server/Videos". But this did not work.

Is there a way of adding a second location for media, or do I need to create a second dlna plugin for my movies?

Thanks

 

[fracai]

Try setting the mount points as something like /media/music and /media/movies and have mini dlna look at /media

 

[paleoN]

In the configuration menu I tried to add "Auxiliary Parameters", such as "media_dir=V,/mnt/Server/Videos". But this did not work.

Yes, this is wrong. You need to specify the jail-side mount, /video.

 

[tophee]

Thanks fracai, I'll try that.
paleoN - oh yeah. I see. Rookie mistake. Wrong path. Doh.

 

[ndboost]

what Fracai said is the best scenario from my limited experience.

Only thing is make sure the dlna user has the appropriate permissions to those mount points/folders.

I have the following folder structure in my jail:

Code:

/mnt/Media
    Music/
    Movies/
    TV/

Outside of the jail, i have storage mapped for the jail as:

Code:

/mnt/DATA/Movies -> /mnt/Media/Movies
/mnt/DATA/Music -> /mnt/Media/Music
/mnt/DATA/TV -> /mnt/Media/TV

on the dlna config i have it set to share from /mnt/Media

 

[tophee]

Hi Guys, a quick update:
I set minidlna to look in my media folder, which I created a music folder and a videos folder. Now I don't see either when I look for upnp shares on my network.
Perhaps I set it up wrong. Thanks for the info on your setup ndboost. I'll try again.

 

[tophee]

A late update... but it was my own fault not creating the folders correctly in the jail for the mount points to mount to... Doh.