Difference between revisions of "UShare"

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Ushare is a great app for streaming to the Xbox 360 (well tested, with avi files), PS3 (not so well tested) and perhaps other UPnP clients.
 
Ushare is a great app for streaming to the Xbox 360 (well tested, with avi files), PS3 (not so well tested) and perhaps other UPnP clients.
  
Ushare has an issue: it does not refresh it's database periodically with new files being added.
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Ushare has an issue: it does not refresh it's database periodically with new files or folders being added.
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== Adding Files ==
  
 
So, any time you add any files to your movies/music/pictures folders, please restart it via the servers area (under Setup -> Applications -> Servers, with advanced settings turned on), or by hand as root, with
 
So, any time you add any files to your movies/music/pictures folders, please restart it via the servers area (under Setup -> Applications -> Servers, with advanced settings turned on), or by hand as root, with
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We are considering issuing the research via a crontab every few minutes.
 
We are considering issuing the research via a crontab every few minutes.
  
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== Adding Folders ==
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* Modify the line with USHARE_UNION in:
  
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        /var/hda/apps/ushare/ushare.conf
  
 
[[Category: Apps]]
 
[[Category: Apps]]

Revision as of 01:34, 11 August 2009

Ushare is a great app for streaming to the Xbox 360 (well tested, with avi files), PS3 (not so well tested) and perhaps other UPnP clients.


Ushare has an issue: it does not refresh it's database periodically with new files or folders being added.

Adding Files

So, any time you add any files to your movies/music/pictures folders, please restart it via the servers area (under Setup -> Applications -> Servers, with advanced settings turned on), or by hand as root, with

      service amahi-ushare restart

We are considering issuing the research via a crontab every few minutes.

Adding Folders

  • Modify the line with USHARE_UNION in:
       /var/hda/apps/ushare/ushare.conf