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• Java

  yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk

  update for Java 8

Always check http://www.serviio.org/download for the latest version first.

wget http://download.serviio.org/releases/serviio-1.1-linux.tar.gz

tar -C /opt -zxvf serviio-1.1-linux.tar.gz
mv /opt/serviio-1.1 /opt/serviio

useradd -d /opt/serviio -r serviio
chown -R serviio:serviio /opt/serviio

Create the initscript /etc/init.d/serviio with the following code:

#! /bin/sh
#
# chkconfig 35 85 15
# description: Start the serviio DLNA server in headless mode
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: serviio
# Required-Start: $network
# Required-Stop: $network
# Default-Start: 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6
# Description: Start the serviio DLNA server in headless mode
### END INIT INFO

SERVIIO_HOME="/opt/serviio"
SERVIIO_DAEMON="serviio.sh"
SERVIIO_BIN="$SERVIIO_HOME/bin/$SERVIIO_DAEMON"
SERVIIO_USER="serviio"

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

RETVAL=0

check() {
        # Check that we're a privileged user
        [ $(id -u) = 0 ] || exit 4

        # Check if SERVIIO_HOME exists
        test -d "$SERVIIO_HOME" || exit 5

        # Check if SERVIIO_BIN is executable
        test -x "$SERVIIO_BIN" || exit 5
}

start() {
        check
        echo -n "Starting Serviio DLNA server: "
	/bin/su --session-command="$SERVIIO_BIN -headless" $SERVIIO_USER &
        RETVAL=$?
        if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
            touch /var/lock/subsys/serviio.sh
            echo_success
        else
            echo_failure
        fi
        echo
        return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
    check
    echo -n "Shutting down Serviio DLNA daemon: "
    # Retrieve JAVA Serviio process ID
    PIDDAEMON=`pgrep $SERVIIO_DAEMON`
    [ -z "$PIDDAEMON" ] || PIDJAVA=`ps -o pid= --ppid $PIDDAEMON`
    # Kill the daemon
    killproc "$SERVIIO_BIN"
    RETVAL=$?
    [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/serviio.sh
    echo
    # Kill the JAVA Serviio process if exists
    [ -z "$PIDJAVA" ] || kill -9 $PIDJAVA
    return $RETVAL
}

restart() {
        stop
        start
}


case "$1" in
start)
        start
        ;;
stop)
        stop
        ;;
force-reload)
        restart
        ;;
restart)
        restart
        ;;
condrestart)
        if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/serviio.sh ]; then
            restart
        fi
        ;;
status)
        status serviio.sh
        ;;
*)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|force-reload}"
        RETVAL=2
esac

exit $RETVAL

chmod +x /etc/init.d/serviio
chkconfig --add serviio
chkconfig serviio on

service serviio start

service serviio stop

(I added these to my firewall.sh I run every time I update iptables, if you use another firewall just make sure the correct ports are open)

iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 1900 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "Serviio"
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8895 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "Serviio"
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 23423 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "Serviio"
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 23424 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "Serviio"

As of Serviio v1.0, you need ffmpeg v0.11 or greater so in most cases you will need to build ffmpeg from source, rather than use the version from yum.

As per Building FFmpeg on Linux but edited slightly for CentOS:

• Remove existing packages, and install essential build packages for later

  yum remove x264 ffmpeg -y
  yum install git libfaac-devel libmp3lame-devel libtheora-devel \
  libva-devel libvdpau-devel libvorbis-devel libX11-devel libXfixes-devel texi2html yasm \
  libxvidcore-devel  libXext-devel libXfixes-devel librtmp-devel -y

• x264 (optional)

  cd ~
  mkdir src
  cd src
  git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264
  cd x264
  ./configure --enable-static --prefix=/usr
  make fprofiled
  make install

• Libvpx (optional)

  cd ~/src
  git clone http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git
  cd libvpx
  ./configure
  make install

• rtmpdump

  cd ~/src
  git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/rtmpdump
  cd rtmpdump
  make SYS=posix

Some of the above libraries are optional, if you don't build them, remember to remove the equivilant –enable-libXXX from ./configure below.

• ffmpeg

  cd ~/src
  wget http://download.serviio.org/opensource/ffmpeg-N-42368-gbf53863.tar.gz
  tar xvf ffmpeg-N-42368-gbf53863.tar.gz
  cd ffmpeg
  ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora \
   --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-version3 \
  --enable-x11grab --enable-libvpx --enable-librtmp --enable-libxvid
  make
  make fprofiled
  make install

• Add the ffmpeg location to /opt/serviio/bin/serviio.sh by updating the following line with the -Dffmpeg.location e.g.:

# Setup Serviio specific properties
JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dderby.system.home=$SERVIIO_HOME/library -Dserviio.home=$SERVIIO_HOME -Dffmpeg.location=/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg"

• At this point it should be working, I have this tested on an XBox 360, if you have any troubles you may find my the forum post here useful http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7277&start=0