How to Install And Configure FUPPES on Ubuntu Hardy
FUPPES stands for Free UPnP Entertainment Service and is a free, multiplatform UPnP A/V Media Server that supports a wide range of UPnP MediaRenderers as well as on-the-fly transcoding of various audio, video and image formats. FUPPES also includes basic DLNA support, which means you can play your audio/video from your PS3 and Xbox 360.
This tutorial teaches you how to install and configure FUPPES on Ubuntu Hardy-32bits
Install the dependencies
The following are some of the optional dependencies that allow you to transcode audio and video on the fly.
In your terminal,
sudo apt-get install lame liblame-dev libflac-dev libvorbis-dev ffmpeg libavformat-dev libmpcdec-dev twolame faad imagemagick
Update: If you are using Ubuntu Intrepid, the liblame-dev has been replaced by libmp3lame-dev. Thanks to Tuna for reminding.
Installing FUPPES
Download FUPPES (from GetDeb) to your desktop.
Double click the deb file to install FUPPES.
Configuring FUPPES
In your terminal, type
fuppes
follow by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C to quit the application. We are not going to run the application now. The purpose of this running and quitting is for FUPPES to generate the fuppes.cfg file.
Now, go to your Home folder (Places -> Home Folder). Press Ctrl+ H to display all the hidden folders. Navigate to .fuppes folder
Open fuppes.cfg with text editor.
Search for
<network>
<!–empty = automatic detection–>
<interface/>
<!–empty or 0 = random port–>
<http_port/>
<!–list of ip addresses allowed to access fuppes. if empty all ips are allowed–>
<allowed_ips>
<!–<ip>192.168.0.1</ip>–>
</allowed_ips>
</network>
and replace with
<network>
<!–empty = automatic detection–>
<interface>YOUR-IP-ADDRESS</interface>
<!–empty or 0 = random port–>
<http_port>5080</http_port>
<!–list of ip addresses allowed to access fuppes. if empty all ips are allowed–>
<allowed_ips>
<!–<ip>192.168.0.1</ip>–>
</allowed_ips>
</network>
Remember to change YOUR-IP-ADDRESS to your own IP address. Alternatively, you can use your network interface, such as wlan0 or eth0 such as the interface name.
Save and exit.
Back to your terminal, run FUPPES again by typing
fuppes
Open your browser and navigate to http://your-ip-address:5080. You should see the FUPPES main screen
On the left, click Configuration.
In the Add objects field, specify the path to the media folder that you want to share. Click Submit Query.
Once you are done adding your media folder, click Options on the left. Click rebuild database
You are now good to go.
Testing it out
Since XBMC has the ability to stream media over a network via a uPnP, we will use it to test out the FUPPES configuration. Follow this tutorial to install XBMC.
Open your XBMC (Applications -> Sound & Videos -> XBMC Media Center)
On the left, click on Music follow by Add Source
Click Browse and scroll down to uPnP Device
If your FUPPES is successful, you will see the entry on the list. You might have to try a few times to get XBMC to detect the media server.
You can then click OK to add the source and enjoy the music in the XBMC player. If you have .flac files, it will be transcoded to .mp3 when you play it in XBMC.
Configure FUPPES to start everytime you boot up
Go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions. In the Startup Programs tab, click Add. Enter the following detail:
Click OK.
Done. FUPPES will start automatically the next time you boot up.
Accessing FUPPES from PS3 and Xbox 360
I don’t have a PS3 and Xbox 360 to test. Here are some resources for your reference
Fuppes wiki – Microsoft Xbox 360
Fuppes wiki – Device specific setting
Enjoy!
Tags: FUPPES, Ubuntu, xbmc
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thank you so mch… i really love your site. im learning so mch about linux from you.
again i thank you and keep it up!!!
YOURE THE MAN!!!
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can you help me make me transcode my kmv files? ive been through the wiki and i cannot make mkv files to work. the forums are not replying… i hope you can help me on this. thanks!
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In Ubuntu Intrepid liblame-dev has been replaced by libmp3lame-dev
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Damien Reply:
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:08 am
Thanks. I have updated the post.
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iceman600 Reply:
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 am
where’s the updated post?
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All,
I am getting this error when installing FUPPES in Ubuntu Intrepid:
Error: Dependancy is not satisfiable: libavcodecId
************ Any ideas ?!!! ***********
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kyle Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Thanks to RATSat on this forum, I got the dependencies working.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=963619
Download and install libavcodec1d libavformat1d libavutil1d (the third one I needed, I don’t know if you will) from (sorry for the lack of a direct link):
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/libavcodec1d/download
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/libavformat1d/download
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/libavutil1d/download
Then it should work.
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When I change the http_port to 5080, I get this error.
/home/kyle/.fuppes/fuppes.cfg:216: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: fuppes_config line 2 and device_settings
^
/home/kyle/.fuppes/fuppes.cfg:217: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
^
== lib/SharedConfig.cpp (390) :: Wed Jan 14 20:16:57 2009 ==
parse error.
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Ubuntu newbie in need of help :P
When i try the line…
libmp3lame-dev twolame faad imagemagick
I keep getting bash: libmp3lame-dev: command not found
I have tried the following to install it:
bash: libmp3lame-dev: command not found
Any ideas of what this could be?
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wherethespiritdwells Reply:
January 20th, 2009 at 1:17 am
sukhsc,
type “sudo apt-get install libmp3lame-dev twolame faad imagemagick” to install those files. If you are using Intrepid as am I, then you will need to download and install the 3 files as listed by kyle in order for fuppes to be installed. In my experience, install utils, then codec, then format in that order. Good Luck!
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this is by far the best tutorial on how to set this up. thanks so much. i have a problem which is that the songs will skip or restart at times. not sure why. i really doubt it is an issue with any other link in the chain. i would have to suspect this has problems with ibex?
anyone else experience this? some stuff plays fine, but most seems to drop out here and there
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I get the following error when installing on ubuntu 8.04 server
process 4969: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open “/var/lib/dbus/machine-id”: No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session
notify_init() failed
FUPPES – SVN-r578
the Free UPnP Entertainment Service
http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de
== lib/ContentDirectory/VirtualContainerMgr.cpp (54) :: Tue Jan 27 10:02:47 2009 ==
no vfolder.cfg file available
and this directory is not there, but I don’t know what was suppose to be there, also I had to install the package dpkg -i fuppes.blabla.deb (I don’t know the exact package name)
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SerialTux Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I am getting the same error now. I have had this working for over a year, but now I am getting this error.
Were you able to figure out what the problem was?
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I keep getting the dependency error libcairo2, I went to synaptic and installed all of the libcairo2 dependencies but it is still coming up with the error. Any Ideas??
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PhattyC Reply:
March 21st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
never mind got the dep.
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So now i am trying to do the part where i put my ip adress in the browser but it keeps timing out. any suggestions?
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when i try to start fuppes i keep getting this message,
chris@chris-laptop:~$ fuppes
FUPPES – SVN-r578
the Free UPnP Entertainment Service
http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de
[ERROR] failed to bind socket to : 97.124.150.222:0
[exiting]
any idea
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I am trying to install it on ubuntu jaunty, but am not getting any joy. it needs libmagick++10 but there isnt one for jaunty.
any ideas?
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