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====== How to get Serviio running on Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi ======

==== Prerequisites ====
 
This is guide is based on the assumption you have a working version of Raspbian “wheezy” installed on Raspberry Pi Model B (512mb version). It hasn't been tested on Raspberry Pi Model B 256mb or Model A.

Raspbian "wheezy" can be download from the link below. Please refer to raspberrypi.org for support setting up Raspbian.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

"Oracle JDK 8 for ARM has JIT compiler and supports hard float point instructions. This is the fastest (1.5x-10x times faster than other JVMs) Java option for Raspberry Pi"
==== Install Oracle Java for ARM ====

Download Oracle JDK8 for ARM on your RaspberryPi and get the resulting file to your 'home' folder on Raspbian.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

Oracle provide a good installation guide at:
[[http://jdk8.java.net/fxarmpreview/index.html]]

If you have Raspbian setup already then skip to the section "Setting Up JavaFX Runtime on the RPI"

==== Configure Java ====
Decompress the tar file, the file name will change depending on the version you download
<code>
sudo tar zxvf jdk-8u60-linux-arm32-vfp-hflt.tar.gz -C /opt
</code>

Change the owner of JAVA:
<code>root@raspberrypi /opt $ sudo chown -R root jdk1.8.0_60/</code>

Set where the Java components are installed:
<code>
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk1.8.0_60/bin/java 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk1.8.0_60/bin/javac 1
sudo update-alternatives --set java /opt/jdk1.8.0_60/bin/java
</code>

Set version, you get to set as new versions of Raspbian have JDK7 preinstalled, you can install JDK8 as well just set which runs.
<code>
sudo update-alternatives --config javac
sudo update-alternatives --config java
</code>

Check versions
<code>
java -version
javac -version
</code>

Version numbers will update from the example below;
<code>
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ java -version
java version "1.8.0_60"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode)
</code>

==== Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable on Raspbian ====
Edit the file /etc/environment
<code>root@raspberrypi $ sudo nano /etc/environment</code>

Enter the following:
<code>JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.8.0_60"</code>
Exit nano making sure you save the file.

Edit your ~/.bashrc file:
<code>sudo nano ~/.bashrc</code> 
 
Put the entries at the end of the file: 
<code>
export JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.8.0_60"
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
</code>

Reboot Raspbian to make sure everything is update and 'export' settings in place.

==== Install Serviio ====
Download Serviio for Linux from:
[[http://www.serviio.org/download]]

Copy the file into your home folder //'home/pi'// on Raspbian and extract the contents into a folder e.g //'home/pi/serviio'//

In the folder //'home/pi/serviio/bin'// folder you'll find the two shell scripts you need to run.

From terminal in the folder //'home/pi/serviio/bin'//
<code>bash serviio.sh</code>
In another terminal session
<code>bash serviio-console.sh</code>
 
//1, serviio.sh to run the service//
//2, serviio-console.sh to run the console on raspbian desktop//

In Serviio desktop make sure you disable transcoding. The Raspberry Pi CPU even if overclocked is pretty weak and not up to transcoding. As an example a Intel Atom dual core D525 1.8ghz can just about do x264 to mpeg2 real time at SD quality, Raspberry Pi is an ARM6 cpu at 700mhz (default).

Rather than run Serviio console on Raspbian you can configure via a smart phone. See the links on [[http://www.serviio.org/apps]] for more details or [[http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=wikiconsoles]] for more desktop replacements.

Set Serviio to start on boot with Raspbian, this is for the service only not the GUI so save memory.
Create and init.d file to edit
<code>sudo nano /etc/init.d/serviio</code>
Paste the following code into your file
<code>

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          serviio
# Required-Start:    $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: serviio server
# Description:
#
### END INIT INFO

User=pi

case "$1" in

stop)
        echo "Stop Serviio..."
        su -l $User -c "/home/pi/serviio/bin/serviio.sh -stop" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
        ;;
start)
        # start Serviio in background mode
        su -l $User -c "/home/pi/serviio/bin/serviio.sh" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
        echo "Start Serviio..."
        ;;
restart)
        $0 
stop
esac
</code>

Set permissions so the script is executable
<code>
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/serviio
</code>

Register script to be run at start-up
<code>
sudo update-rc.d serviio defaults
</code>

If you want to remove from start-up
<code>
sudo update-rc.d -f serviio remove 
</code>
==== FFMPEG ====
So far I've not got this to compile, it fails after about 10 minutes so this needs some work. For now I installed the standard version:
<code>sudo apt-get install ffmpeg</code>

If you want to experiment this guide is available, non-specific to Serviio.
[[http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/How%20to%20compile%20FFmpeg%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%20%28Raspbian%29]]

The above guide worked to a point with a lot of tweaking but the resulting outputs didn't work on Raspbian.

My solution was to build on the Pi itself even though main guides say don't do it. Yes its slow but at least it will work !

Get lamemp3
<code>
sudo apt-get install libmp3lame-dev
</code>

Compiling libaacplus
<code>
sudo apt-get install autoconf 
sudo apt-get install libtool
cd /home/pi/
mkdir src
cd src
wget -O libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz http://tipok.org.ua/downloads/media/aacplus/libaacplus/libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz
tar -xzf libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz
cd libaacplus-2.0.2
./autogen.sh --with-parameter-expansion-string-replace-capable-shell=/bin/bash --host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi --enable-static
You have error message here. Change the line in autogen to "(libtoolize --help...".
make
sudo make install
</code>

Compiling libx264
<code>
cd /home/pi/src
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264
cd x264
./configure --host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi --enable-static --disable-opencl
make
sudo make install
</code>

Build and Install libvpx
libvpx is an emerging open video compression library which is gaining popularity for distributing high definition video content on the internet. FFmpeg supports using the libvpx library to compress video content. To acquire and build libvpx, perform the following:
<code>
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
cd /home/pi/src
git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx
cd libvpx
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=libvpx --pkgversion="1:$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)-git" --backup=no     --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --default
</code>

Build and Install librtmp
librtmp provides support for the RTMP content streaming protocol developed by Adobe and commonly used to distribute content to flash video players on the web. FFmpeg supports using the librtmp library to stream content from RTMP sources. To acquire and build librtmp, perform the following:
<code>
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
cd /home/pi/src
git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/rtmpdump
cd rtmpdump
make SYS=posix
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=rtmpdump --pkgversion="2:$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)-git" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --default
</code>

The first built I ran ffmpeg it failed and I had to go back and do this command here
<code>
sudo ldconfig
</code>
Then when I built and ran ffmpeg it was happy

Build and Install FFmpeg
This guide uses latest FFmpeg source, Serviio is tailored to work with a certain version though. I use the latest in this guide.
<code>
cd /home/pi/src
git clone --depth 1 git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --arch=armel --target-os=linux --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-libaacplus --enable-librtmp --enable-libmp3lame
make
sudo make install
</code>
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