MultiMedia eXchange Installation on FreeBSD

The idea is to exchange (video) data from a central point of prescence... The intended audience consists of the following players:

• XBMC (Modded XBox running XBox Media Center)
• Pinnacle Showcenter

In the future the intention is to add mobile devices and other players.

In order to enable the audience to manage their torrents, a virtual webhost is a premium requirement. On this vhost the following web applications need to be installed:

• Torrentflux - Webbased torrent management
• Web Discussion Board (SMF forum)

In order to stream data to the XBMC application, XNS is needed. An application that supports this protocol is ccxstream, so as root run:

portinstall ccxstream

Changes to /etc/rc.local:

#!/bin/sh

### ccxstream
if [ -e /etc/ccxstream.conf ]; then
        . /etc/ccxstream.conf
        ${BIN} ${PARAMS} -C ${SERVERCOMMENT}
fi

And a config file (/etc/ccxstream.conf):

#!/bin/sh

#Below the user to run the service as (mandatory)
RUNASUSER="root"

#Below the password on the XBOX (optional)
#REMOTEPASS="xboxpassword"

#Below the interface to listen on (mandatory)
LISTENINTERFACE="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

#Below allow application to follow symlinks (optional)
FOLLOWSYMLINKS="YES"

#Comment (optional)
SERVERCOMMENT="XBMS server for your viewing pleasure."

#Shares to make available (mandatory)
SHARES="movies=/path/to/media/video/movies series=/path/to/media/video/series"

#Location of binary file. Leave default unless you know what you're doing (mandatory)
BIN="/usr/local/bin/ccxstream"

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#

DIR="-"

PIDFILE=/var/run/ccxstream.pid

PARAMS="-f -F $PIDFILE -r $DIR -u $RUNASUSER"

if test "x$FOLLOWSYMLINKS" != "x" ; then
    PARAMS="$PARAMS -L"
fi

if test "x$REMOTEPASS" != "x" ; then
    PARAMS="$PARAMS -P $REMOTEPASS"
fi

if test "x$LISTENINTERFACE" != "x" ; then
    PARAMS="$PARAMS -l $LISTENINTERFACE"
fi

for i in $SHARES ; do
    PARAMS="$PARAMS -S $i"
done

if test "x$SERVERCOMMENT" = "x" ; then
    SERVERCOMMENT="`hostname`"
fi

emerge ccxstream

Remember to change /etc/conf.d/ccxstream to fit your needs.

A small php script (with hardcoded settings) to autosymlink movies by year:

<?php
/*
 * Movie management
 *
 */
 
 
/**
 * Sucks given directory into a sorted array
 * Recurses into subdirs if asked
 *
 */
function it_get_dir($directory, $recurse="true" ) {
        // Disable directory traversal
        if ( strstr ( $directory, ".." ) ) {
                return false;
        }
        $Dir = opendir( $directory );
        $num = 0;
 
        // false !== ... evades problems when encountering '0' or 'false' in names.
        while( false !== ($file = readdir( $Dir )) ) {
                $filename = $directory . $file;
                if ( ! is_link($filename) ) {
                        if( ! is_dir( $filename ) ) {
                                $dirlist[$num] = $filename;
                                $num++;
                        } elseif( $recurse ) {
                                if ( $file != "." && $file != ".." ) {
                                        $dirlist = array_merge( $dirlist,it_get_dir($filename . "/" ));
                                        $num = count( $dirlist ) + 1;
                                }
                        } else {
                                if( $file != "." && $file != ".." ) {
                                        $dirlist[$num] = $filename;
                                        $num++;
                                }
                        }
                }
        }
        closedir( $Dir );
 
        if( ! empty($dirlist) ) {
                rsort($dirlist);
                reset($dirlist);
        }
        return $dirlist;
}
 
 
/*** Settings **/
$config["basedir"]= "/mnt/nfs/nslu2/opt/data/public/video/movies/";
$config["allmovies"] = $config["basedir"] . "all/";
$config["byyear"] = $config["basedir"] . "by year/";
$config["linkpath"] = "../../all/";
 
/*** MAIN ******/
if( ! @file_exists( $config["byyear"] ) ) {
        if( @mkdir( $config["byyear"], 0775, false ) === false ) {
                die( "Failed to create " . $config["byyear"] . ".\n");
        }
}
 
print( "Obtaining filelist...\n" );
$movielist = @it_get_dir( $config["allmovies"], false );
 
foreach( $movielist as $movie ) {
        $movie = str_replace( $config["allmovies"], "", $movie );
 
        // Fetch YEAR
        ereg( "\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\)$", $movie, $mov_year );
        $cleanyear = array( "(", ")" );
        $year = str_replace( $cleanyear, "", $mov_year[0] );
 
        // Fetch Movie Name Only
        $movie = ereg_replace( "\ \([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\)$", "", $movie );
 
        if( @is_dir( $config["allmovies"] . "$movie ($year)/" ) ) {
                if( ! @is_link( $config["byyear"] . "$year/$movie" ) ) {
                        if( ! @file_exists( $config["byyear"] . "$year/" ) ) {
                                if( mkdir( $config["byyear"] . "$year/", 0755 ) === false ) {
                                        die( "Failed to create " . $config["byyear"] . "$year/.\n");
                                }
                        }
                        @symlink(
                                $config["linkpath"] . "$movie ($year)/",
                                $config["byyear"] . "$year/$movie"
                        );
                }
        } else {
                die( "Failed...\n" );
        }
}
?>