Today on part 4 of how to build the Ultimate Linux Home Server, we’ll be setting up FUPPES to stream and transcode our media to various devices that support UPNP, such as the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

Some of the features of FUPPES are :

Setting up FUPPES

You will need to add some additional repositories to download some of the packages we need. To do that, in the YaST Package manager, you will need to click on All Repositores, then Add or Remove. A new window will come up, then click Add. Next you will need to select Community Repositories, then click next. You will then want to add the Main Repository (OSS) and the Packman Repository. Then click finish.

The packages that you will need are

• libxml2-devel
• sqlite3-devel
• ffmpeg
• libavformat
• taglib-devel
• ImageMagick
• ImageMagick-devel
• libMagick++-devel
• libnotify-devel
• libmp3lame-devel
• libtwolame-devel
• libmpcdec-devel
• giflib-devel
• flac-devel
• perl-Data-UUID
• mad
• mad-devel
• jasper
• transcode

Once you’ve installed all of those packages, we will use svn to get simage, since FUPPES uses it for stream pictures. In a terminal you will type

• svn co https://svn.coin3d.org/repos/simage/trunk simage
• cd simage
• ./configure
• make install

Now that simage is done, its on to FUPPES. Again, we will be using svn to get the latest version of FUPPES, then configure and compile it. In a terminal, you will type

• svn co https://fuppes.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fuppes/trunk fuppes
• cd fuppes
• autoreconf -vfi
• ./configure — prefix=/usr –enable-video-transcoding –enable-default-http-port=5080
• make
• make install

Once you’ve finished compiling, you can now run FUPPES for the first time. In terminal, type fuppes.

Then in your web browser on your server, go to http://127.0.0.2:5080/ to get to the FUPPES webui. In the configuration link, this is where you can add your iTunes Library’s and the folders you have media you want to share in. You can also allow IP addresses to access the webui by adding the device’s IP address to the list.

To set up FUPPES to work with an Xbox 360, you can view the guide on the FUPPES Wiki here: Link

To set up FUPPES to work with an Xbox 360, you can view the guide on the FUPPES Wiki here: Link

To set up FUPPES to automatically start on boot, you can view the guide here: Link

Proceed on to part 5 here.

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