Too much memory problem

[Rilhas]

Hi,

My Bifferboard is spending a few hours per day doing nothing, and I
think that is too much wasted time. So I would like to make it work a
little harder. Since it has more than 400GB of available harddisk
space I thought about streaming music videos to the PS3, to watch on
my TV. Why not? Right??

Acording to Ivan Zahariev's benchmarks (are there any other
benchmarks??) the Bifferboard should be up to the task, with a disk
read speed of 138Mbps and Ethernet data rate of 54Mbps. So I guess if
there is software to do it it may work.

I was wondering if any of you know of a good uPNP server that I could
run on the Bifferboard. It doesn't need to do any transcoding, I have
everything transcoded already. So I only need some server that can
handle the protocol and do the streaming without using much physical
RAM.

Any ideas?

[Andrew Scheller]

> My Bifferboard is spending a few hours per day doing nothing, and I
> think that is too much wasted time. So I would like to make it work a
> little harder.

LOL, as long as you don't make it overheat again ;-)

> I was wondering if any of you know of a good uPNP server that I could
> run on the Bifferboard. It doesn't need to do any transcoding, I have
> everything transcoded already. So I only need some server that can
> handle the protocol and do the streaming without using much physical
> RAM.

I've not done any of this myself, but I'd guess
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/CompareUPnP would probably be
your best starting point... of course with NSLU2 being ARM-based, and
BB being x86-based, there may be servers that work on one but not the
other, or vice versa.

Lurch

[Rilhas]

>
> I've not done any of this myself, but I'd guesshttp://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/CompareUPnPwould probably be

> your best starting point... of course with NSLU2 being ARM-based, and
> BB being x86-based, there may be servers that work on one but not the
> other, or vice versa.
>

Thanks for that link! When I first opened it it looked like I was
heading twards a very painful experience, with all the complex
features and terminology and what not... your ARM vs. x86 comment also
helped to augment my fears.

However, reading it in more detail I quickly weeded of many options.
One of the 5 is commercial, so that doesn't count. Of the remaining 4
only 1 (uShare) doesn't do transcoding, which is strongly suggests to
me that it is made to be simple and will not require many resources.
So this was already my favorite.

Further down it says uShare only occupies 3MB, while the other 3 may
occupy anywhere from 1 byte up to +oo. So another point to uShare.

Next the PS3 compatibility: "video". Not "yes", but "video". In this
list I assume "yes"="audio"+"video", but I also assume that
"video"="images"+"sound". This may mean it can only stream videos
along with the sound they contain... ok, that is my main objective, so
it is not an exclusion point... and I guess one can always add a JPEG
to an MP3 and convert it to an MPEG4. :-) ... unless "video"="images
only", of course, but I don't see the point of that.

On the uShare home page it seems there is a limitation where there is
some RAM usage for each file in the library. Mmmm... ok... I have
about 500 music videos, and my collection grows veeeeeryy slowwwwwly,
so as long it doesn't use more than 10K per file it should work.

So, my next step is to backup the Bifferboard and slapt-get ushare -
install... (or something like that, I usually don't get it right on
the first try! :-))

Thanks!