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ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 893 Location: UK

DLNA Quirky Werewolf64 Pup (V1)– released 16th Nov 2015
For Smart TVs (Please page down for V2 – released 21st Jan 2016)
(Please see page 3 for V3 - released 23rd March 2016)

The primary purpose of this Pup is to act as preconfigured self-contained DLNA server. No special setup is required.
To that end it contains a third 7.9GB f2fs partition (The media “pool”) with 7.1GB of free space.
Three test videos are already present on that partition.

The target device is a 32GB USB2 or USB3 stick but see the first item in the FAQ. - (16GB May be used if true size is sufficient)

Thanks go to BarryK for his Quirky Werewolf64 7.3.2 (Released 15th Nov) upon which this Pup is based. The kernel is 4.2.6.
Thanks also go to forum members radky & SFR for creating the majority of additional pets included.
Nothing has been removed from the base Pup in an attempt to retain compatibility with any future service packs that Barry may issue.
The main additions include:

DLNA: (ReadyMedia a.k.a. minidlna)

The free space on the third partition may be insufficient for some people’s needs.
This implementation however has the ability to switch over to another media repository such as an external USB drive, USB stick or indeed any internal drive or partition.
There is no problem with ever changing USB device letters as it uses the UUID of the partition or device. The only thing required is a simple edit to a single file followed by a reboot.
The file in question is /root/Startup/mountpool.sh. It contains instructions plus an example.

Latest versions of Google Chrome & Thunderbird:
Both are preconfigured and there is a utility to update Chrome. (See FAQ)

Voice Control: (Not of DLNA)
Something to play with! Please see the following post:-
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=101039

Wolf Alert:
Provides a visual & spoken alert at boot time or upon restarting X when new pets or service packs become available.

List of additional Pets included:

Where to obtain the image: (dlnawerewolf64.img.xz [1.03GB] & md5sum)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_iVVJCd9q09UXl0eFNmWUF4aW8

Installation:
Using Windows: (This is the recommended method when available)

7-Zip should be used to decompress the image. It will decompress to 14.91GB so please ensure that you have at least that much free space available on an NTFS volume.
Use win32diskimager to place the image on the stick.
A detailed win32diskimager guide plus a link to it is to be found here:
www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=765457#765457

Using Linux:
Extract the xz compressed image with UExtract first making sure that you have enough free space as it will expand to 14.91GB. Pet here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87864

Then use the following command to place the extracted image on the stick:

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 893 Location: UK

Reserved for Additional info, tips & FAQ:

Q1. Can I use a 16 GB stick?

A1. Yes, but if and only if its true capacity is not a single byte less than 16008609792 bytes.
To test the true capacity of any 16GB stick that you possess use the following command substituting the drive letter for x

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4375 Location: Ontario

I was having a lot of problems putting werewolf64-7.3.usfs.xz onto a USB stick ---> actually a SD card and adaptor

Probably I was having the problems because there was already multiple partitions on the stick.

The solution was to format the USB stick in Windows using SD Formater 4.0
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

I formated to fat32 , then Barry Kauler's install scripts would work properly.

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Right-click-64bit-6.9.9

File: Right-click-64bit-6.9.9.pet
Size: 2.49 MB
(untick the downloader box to avoid downloader app install)

I updated my right click package with Uextract 3.13
It works nicely with werewolf. Laughing

http://www.datafilehost.com/d/c9f809c9

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gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6714 Location: Earth

Downloaded the DLNA PUP to a location with space for the expansion. Proceeded to creating the boot media.

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 893 Location: UK

@don570,

Thanks for your link to the latest version (6.9.9) of your Right-click-64bit utility.
It is a firm favourite of mine and I will give it a try with DLNA Pup.

Your mention of SD cards in the context of this thread might cause confusion.
The recommended install of this Pup is to a USB2 or 3 stick rather than an SD card.
The reason is that a read speed sufficient to smoothly deliver 1080p video is required.
Manufacturers claims of read/write speeds are always exaggerated by as much as 50%.
Here are some real world examples:

In the above sdb & sdd are identical sticks but sdb shows a faster read speed as it is f2fs
as opposed to sdd which is standard fat32. It clearly shows the advantage of f2fs.

The other interesting thing is sde which is a 16GB SanDisk Ultra Class 10 SD card with a claimed speed of up to 30MB/s.
sdc is a 4GB class10 card which gives a similar figure to the Ultra.

@gcmartin,

Thanks for your report and screen grabs.
Firstrun does not launch on first boot as the full install has been pre-configured in many respects. It is in effect a clone of a full install.
The intention is that you launch it via the extra "Tux" icon named "Quicksetup" on the desktop.

Your use of symlinks is both interesting & innovative. You probably noted that the third partition is already
automatically mounted at boot up. If you were also to arrange for the drive/partition containing the
symlinked folder to be automatically mounted (Prior to the 3rd partition being mounted and before minidlna
is launched and does its first scan) that might well work.
It does however start to complicate matters. I favour simple solutions. It all boils down to whether the 7.1GB of free
space on the third partition meets your needs or not.
If not, the simplest solution is just to target an external USB2 drive and make a simple edit to the mountpool.sh script.

Another option if using a 32GB stick, is to expand the 3rd f2fs partion to fill the stick which would then give you 22GB of free space.
How to expand an f2fs partition is described here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=868520#868520
The 6 files currently on the 3rd partition can first be moved to the 2nd partition.
Following that procedure the UUID of the 3rd partition will have changed and you will need to amend the one in the mountpool script.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6714 Location: Earth

Over the many years of electronic media capture, I have "centralized" most photos, videos, and music on NAS units. Thus, symlinks work and GoogleTV was tested showing that the content is presented via DLNA-PUP. All content rendered very well via DLNA PUP to the TV; namely photos, videos, and music no matter where the PUP subsystem is sourcing them.

A brief discussion of setup strategy or any extension is helpful, as, I am sure others have content spread across their home's LAN as well, that can be delivered to smartTVs/smartPhones/smartTablets throughout the home on the same physical LAN subnet. One of my first tests was rendering on my phone.

For example, looking at the performance of your local media, I/O performance of the DLNA PUP would certainly be greater if teh PUP used the local SSD. This would bring the CPU waits down because of the device speed and the fact that the USB serial channel would not be a bottleneck should other USB devices exist on the same path.

You have opened our eyes with this use.

Still, this solution is great for what this PUP now does in helping us in our homes. Its impact is non-intrusive on system's behavior. Its a tiny subsystem having little to no overall system impact when not in use or when in use as I review HTOP reporting.

Thanks @ETP!

ally · Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1316 Location: lincoln, uk

mirrored here: http://archive.org/details/DLNAQuirkyWerewolf64Pup

Smile

bigpup · Posted: Wed 18 Nov 2015, 12:47 Post subject:

The latest version is out.

UPDATE 17 Nov. 2015: Quirky 7.3.3 is a bugfix release

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 893 Location: UK

@ally,

Thanks once again.

@bigpup,

Thanks for the heads up. BarryK's service pack to upgrade from 7.3.2 to 7.3.3 is now out.
To upgrade please select "Quirky Version Upgrade Manager" off the Filesystem menu.
Allow plenty of time for it to complete before rebooting.

Wolf Alert has been turned on and will remain so for 72 hours.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4375 Location: Ontario

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 2805 Location: Ontario Canada

I installed to a 16gb usb-3.0 flash drive, it took approximately 30
minutes.
My tv is a Samsung SmartTV,I don't know the model.
When I press sources on the remote ALLSHARE ETP's DNLA SERVER is one of
the options, choose that and go to one of the folders.
The Google video plays,the other two aren't supported.

Thanks

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6714 Location: Earth

Got Phones/Tablets?
Anyone use their smartPhone/smartTablet which is on the same LAN segment as this DLNA-PUP? If so, you should be able to see and play ANY media files you have in DLNA-PUP's Media folder.

To upload/download media
Also, on those devices, if you add "ES" from the PlayStore(s), you can transfer files from between your smartDevice and DLNA-PUP. To do so, go to DLNA-PUP's Menu>Network>SSM and insure that the Media folder is shared and SAMBA is started.

Summary
This distro brings much usefulness to the home. It demonstrate how the home's devices connected via the home's LAN cooperate for useful purposes in the home. Our homes operating with this kind of cooperation is a system...A Home System.

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 893 Location: UK

Hi Billtoo,

Thanks for testing. The Google video is 720p .mp4 whilst the other two test trailers are 1080p .mov.
It is not clear whether your particular smart TV has taken exception to the .mov format or the higher
resolution. Some TVs are also picky about the codecs used within the files. You really need to consult
the manual for that specific TV. These are generally held online at the manufacturers support site.
Another option is to convert the 2 .mov trailers to .mp4 to see if they then play.
There may also be firmware updates available for your TV.

Attached below are full details of the 3 test trailers that are included.

EDIT: 10th Dec 2015

BarryK's service pack to upgrade from 7.3.3 to 7.4 is now available.

To upgrade please select "Quirky Version Upgrade Manager" off the Filesystem menu.
Allow plenty of time for it to complete before rebooting.

Wolf Alert has been turned on and will remain so for 72 hours.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 2805 Location: Ontario Canada

Hi ETP,

I tested a couple of other formats and they play okay, mkv and mpg.
I have a folder full of different formats to test if I can ever find it, kind of doubtful that I can though.
Anyway, thanks again for the new OS.

Edit: I added some applications with QPM, Kodi and Kdegames.

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 893 Location: UK

DLNA Quirky Werewolf64 Pup V2 – released 21st Jan 2016
For Smart TVs & other DLNA renderers.

The main reasons for this V2 release are an upgrade to the improved means of targeting a media repository as featured in
DLNA Tahr64 Pup and a reduction in size of the target install USB 2 or 3 stick to 16GB or 8GB if the true capacity of the
stick is sufficient.
This version is based on BarryK’s Quirky Werewolf64-7.4 that was released on 10th Dec. The kernel is 4.2.6.

In order to reduce the size of the image to 633 MB it only contains 2 GPT partitions rather than 3. The included 2 test videos
are housed on the small first fat32 partition which is automatically mounted at boot time. The second partition is f2fs.

Full sized screen shot here: (Press F11 to toggle into full screen then click on link)

http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B_iVVJCd9q09MDBWS3Vua01SQzA

Other Changes:
• Items removed that were in V1 include – Google Chrome, Wolf Alert & Voice Control.

• Items added include – Thunderbird 38.5.1, vlc 2.2.1 & Firefox 43.0.4

• New cosmetics with particular emphasis on font clarity.

DLNA: (ReadyMedia a.k.a. minidlna – Version 1.1.5_x86_64)

The primary purpose of this Pup is to act as preconfigured DLNA server. No setup of that feature is required for testing.
The idea is that having gone through the usual quicksetup & network settings DLNA should work OOTB.
Following setup, just reboot and then head off to the TV to test whether or not it works with your particular TV make & model.

In this version the first partition on the stick too small to house additional media.
The intention is that having tested that it works with your TV, you then switch over to your main media repository
which may be on any accessible drive or partition including another USB stick.

At the bottom of the Utility menu is a new option “Change DLNA Repository”. When selected, it will first display the UUID of your current
repository which OOTB will be that of the first partition on the stick. It then displays a list of all available UUIDs and guides you through
the simple process of changing it.

Using an 8GB stick:

An 8GB may be used if and only if its true capacity is not a single byte less than 7,998,799,872 bytes.
To test the true capacity of any 8GB stick that you possess use the following command substituting the drive letter for x
# fdisk -l /dev/sdx
If it does not meet this requirement you must use a larger stick.
You may opt to use a larger stick at the outset if you intend to create a media repository in the free unused space.

Where to obtain the image: (dlnawerewolf64v2.img.xz [633 MB] & md5sum)

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_iVVJCd9q09YjhXbWNXenJZLUU&usp=sharing

Installation:
Using Windows: (This is the recommended method when available)

7-Zip should be used to decompress the image. It will decompress to 7.44 GB so please ensure that you have at least that much free space available on an NTFS volume.
Use win32diskimager to place the image on the stick.
A detailed win32diskimager guide plus a link to it is to be found here:
www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=765457#765457

Using Linux:
Extract the xz compressed image with UExtract first making sure that you have enough free space as it will expand to 7.44GB. Pet here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87864

Then use the following command in a terminal to place the extracted image on the stick:
(This may take up to 30 minutes with just a flashing cursor as feedback until it finishes)