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MotoTom
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miniDLNA File Issue

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I successfully installed miniDLNA a month or so ago and my wife (and I) are enjoying watching our movie collection on the bedroom TV. Today I tried to add my TV Shows and Pix folders to minidlna.conf and am getting an error on the two folders I added

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minidlna.c:670: error: Media directory "V./media/Storybook/Media/TV\ Series" not accessible [No such file or directory]
minidlna.c:670: error: Media directory "P./media/Storybook/Media/Pix" not accessible [No such file or directory]
There is no difference between the folder that is working (Media directory /media/Storybook/Media/Movies) and the TV\ Series and Pix folders except their names. Permissions are consistent throughout as root:users. and 'minidlna' is a member of the users group.

Here are the miniDLNA entries for the media library:

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media_dir=V,/media/Storybook/Media/Movies
media_dir=V./media/Storybook/Media/TV\ Series
media_dir=P./media/Storybook/Media/Pix
Any ideas on what's going wrong?

Thanks for reading.
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Re: miniDLNA File Issue

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"V./media/Storybook/Media/TV\ Series"
What is the deal with the "V." and "P." at the beginning of the path?
I guess you can mount anywhere, but why there?
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Re: miniDLNA File Issue

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According to the miniDLNA instructions "V", "P" & "A" tell the server the type of file the folder(s). "V" is video, "P" is pictures and "A" is audio. This is not necessary but seems to be recommended to manage access to the various types of media.

As I wrote, the V in Movies works fine. I'm trying to figure why the others don't work.

Here are the instructions:

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# If you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you can
# prepend the directory name with a letter representing the type (A, P or V),
# followed by a comma, as so:
#   * "A" for audio    (eg. media_dir=A,/var/lib/minidlna/music)
#   * "P" for pictures (eg. media_dir=P,/var/lib/minidlna/pictures)
#   * "V" for video    (eg. media_dir=V,/var/lib/minidlna/videos)
#   * "PV" for pictures and video (eg. media_dir=PV,/var/lib/minidlna/digital_camera)
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Re: miniDLNA File Issue

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According to the miniDLNA instructions "V", "P" & "A" tell the server the type of file the folder(s). "V" is video, "P" is pictures and "A" is audio. This is not necessary but seems to be recommended to manage access to the various types of media.

As I wrote, the V in Movies works fine. I'm trying to figure why the others don't work.

Here are the instructions:

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# If you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you can
# prepend the directory name with a letter representing the type (A, P or V),
# followed by a comma, as so:
#   * "A" for audio    (eg. media_dir=A,/var/lib/minidlna/music)
#   * "P" for pictures (eg. media_dir=P,/var/lib/minidlna/pictures)
#   * "V" for video    (eg. media_dir=V,/var/lib/minidlna/videos)
#   * "PV" for pictures and video (eg. media_dir=PV,/var/lib/minidlna/digital_camera)

Ooops! Just figured it out. I put "." instead of "," after the V and P
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