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1 | .\" Man page for minidlna.conf |
2 | .\" | |
3 | .\" This man page is based on the comments in the default configuration file | |
4 | .\" shipped with the minidlna source. Consequently, it is licensed under the | |
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7 | .\" Copyright (C) 2009 Justin Maggard <jmaggard@users.sourceforge.net> | |
8 | .\" Copyright (C) 2010-2011 BenoƮt Knecht <benoit.knecht@fsfe.org> | |
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24 | .Dd July 21, 2012 | |
25 | .Dt MINIDLNA.CONF \&5 "File Formats Manual" | |
26 | .Os Debian | |
27 | .Sh NAME | |
28 | .Nm minidlna.conf | |
29 | .Nd MiniDLNA server configuration file | |
30 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
31 | .Nm /etc/minidlna.conf | |
32 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
33 | .Xr minidlna 1 | |
34 | reads configuration options from the system-wide configuration file | |
35 | .Pa /etc/minidlna.conf , | |
36 | or the file specified with | |
37 | .Fl f | |
38 | on the command line. The file contains keyword-argument pairs, one per line. | |
39 | Lines starting with | |
40 | .Ql # | |
41 | and empty lines are interpreted as comments. | |
42 | .Pp | |
43 | The possible | |
44 | keywords and their meanings are as follows: | |
45 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | |
46 | .It Cm album_art_names | |
47 | List of filenames to check for when searching for album art cache, separated by | |
48 | forward slashes | |
49 | .Pq Ql / . | |
50 | This option can be specified more than once. | |
51 | .It Cm db_dir | |
52 | Path to the directory | |
53 | .Nm minidlna | |
54 | should use to store its database and album art cache. Uses | |
55 | .Pa /var/lib/minidlna | |
56 | by default. | |
57 | .It Cm enable_tivo | |
58 | Set to | |
59 | .Dq yes | |
60 | to enable support for streaming JPEG and mp3 files to a TiVo supporting HMO. | |
61 | Set to | |
62 | .Dq no | |
63 | otherwise. | |
64 | .It Cm friendly_name | |
65 | Customize the name that the | |
66 | .Nm minidlna | |
67 | server sends to clients. Defaults to | |
68 | .Dq hostname:\ username . | |
69 | .It Cm inotify | |
70 | Set to | |
71 | .Dq yes | |
72 | to enable inotify monitoring of the files under | |
73 | .Cm media_dir | |
74 | to automatically discover new files. Set to | |
75 | .Dq no | |
76 | to disable inotify. | |
77 | .It Cm listening_ip | |
78 | IPv4 address | |
79 | .Nm minidlna | |
80 | should listen on | |
81 | .Pq e.g. Dq 198.51.100.1/24 . | |
82 | If omitted, the mask defaults to /24. This option can be specified more than | |
83 | once. If unspecified or empty, | |
84 | .Nm minidlna | |
85 | binds to the network interfaces given in | |
86 | .Cm network_interface ; | |
87 | if it is also unspecified or empty, it binds to all the valid network | |
88 | interfaces | |
89 | .Pq except loopback . | |
90 | .It Cm log_dir | |
91 | Path to the directory where the log file should be stored. Defaults to | |
92 | .Pa /var/log . | |
93 | .It Cm log_level | |
94 | Defines the type of messages that should be logged, and down to which level of | |
95 | importance they should be considered. | |
96 | .Pp | |
97 | The possible types are | |
98 | .Dq artwork , | |
99 | .Dq database , | |
100 | .Dq general , | |
101 | .Dq http , | |
102 | .Dq inotify , | |
103 | .Dq metadata , | |
104 | .Dq scanner , | |
105 | .Dq ssdp | |
106 | and | |
107 | .Dq tivo . | |
108 | .Pp | |
109 | The levels are | |
110 | .Dq off , | |
111 | .Dq fatal , | |
112 | .Dq error , | |
113 | .Dq warn , | |
114 | .Dq info | |
115 | and | |
116 | .Dq debug , | |
117 | listed here in order of decreasing importance. | |
118 | .Dq off | |
119 | turns off logging messages entirely, | |
120 | .Dq fatal | |
121 | logs the most critical messages only, and so on down to | |
122 | .Dq debug | |
123 | that logs every single messages. | |
124 | .Pp | |
125 | The types are comma-separated, followed by an equal sign | |
126 | .Pq Ql = , | |
127 | followed by a level that applies to the preceding types. This can be repeated, | |
128 | separating each of these constructs with a comma. | |
129 | .Pp | |
130 | Defaults to | |
131 | .Dq general,\:artwork,\:database,\:inotify,\:scanner,\:metadata,\:http,\:\ | |
132 | ssdp,\:tivo=warn | |
133 | which logs every type of message at the | |
134 | .Dq warn | |
135 | level. | |
136 | .It Cm media_dir | |
137 | Path to the directory containing the media files the | |
138 | .Nm minidlna | |
139 | server should share. Use this option several times if you have more than one | |
140 | directory to share. To restrict a path to one specific media type, you can use | |
141 | the following syntax: the letter | |
142 | .Ql A , | |
143 | .Ql V | |
144 | or | |
145 | .Ql P , | |
146 | followed by a comma | |
147 | .Pq Ql \&, | |
148 | followed by the path. The meaning of the first letter is as follows: | |
149 | .Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact | |
150 | .It | |
151 | .Ql A | |
152 | for audio files; | |
153 | .It | |
154 | .Ql V | |
155 | for video files; | |
156 | .It | |
157 | .Ql P | |
158 | for image files. | |
159 | .El | |
160 | For example, if you want to include only video files located under the | |
161 | .Pa /opt/media/videos | |
162 | directory, you would use | |
163 | .Cm media_dir=V,/opt/media/videos . | |
164 | .Pp | |
165 | After making changes to this option, you need to rebuild the database. | |
166 | If you use an init script to start/stop | |
167 | .Nm minidlna, | |
168 | then you should run | |
169 | .Pq as root | |
170 | .Ic service | |
171 | .Cm minidlna | |
172 | .Cm force-reload . | |
173 | Otherwise, just add | |
174 | .Fl R | |
175 | to your usual | |
176 | .Nm minidlna | |
177 | command line | |
178 | .Po | |
179 | .Ic minidlna | |
180 | .Op ... | |
181 | .Fl R | |
182 | .Pc . | |
183 | .It Cm minissdpdsocket | |
184 | Path to the MiniSSDPd socket, if you want to use | |
185 | .Nm minidlna | |
186 | together with MiniSSDPd. Defaults to | |
187 | .Pa /run/minissdpd.sock . | |
188 | .It Cm model_name | |
189 | Set the model name reported to clients. | |
190 | Defaults to | |
191 | .Dq Windows Media Connect compatible (MiniDLNA) . | |
192 | .It Cm model_number | |
193 | Set the model number reported to clients. Defaults to the version number of | |
194 | .Nm minidlna . | |
195 | .It Cm network_interface | |
196 | Network interface(s) to bind to | |
197 | .Pq e.g. eth0 , | |
198 | comma delimited. This option can be specified more than once. If unspecified or empty, | |
199 | .Nm minidlna | |
200 | binds to the IPs given in | |
201 | .Cm listening_ip ; | |
202 | if it is also unspecified or empty, it binds to all the valid network | |
203 | interfaces | |
204 | .Pq except loopback . | |
205 | .It Cm notify_interval | |
206 | Set the notify interval, in seconds. The default is 895 seconds. | |
207 | .It Cm port | |
208 | Port number for HTTP traffic | |
209 | .Pq descriptions, SOAP, media transfe . | |
210 | This option is mandatory, unless the port number is specified on the | |
211 | command-line using | |
212 | .Fl p Pq see Xr minidlna 1 . | |
213 | .It Cm presentation_url | |
214 | Define the URL presented to clients | |
215 | .Pq e.g. Dq http://example.com:80 . | |
216 | The default is | |
217 | .Ql / . | |
218 | .It Cm root_container | |
219 | Use a different container as the root of the tree exposed to clients. The | |
220 | possible values | |
221 | .Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact | |
222 | .It | |
223 | .Ql \&. | |
224 | to use the standard container (this is the default); | |
225 | .It | |
226 | .Ql B | |
227 | to use the | |
228 | .Dq Browse Directory | |
229 | container; | |
230 | .It | |
231 | .Ql M | |
232 | to use the | |
233 | .Dq Music | |
234 | container; | |
235 | .It | |
236 | .Ql V | |
237 | to use the | |
238 | .Dq Video | |
239 | container; | |
240 | .It | |
241 | .Ql P | |
242 | to use the | |
243 | .Dq Pictures | |
244 | container. | |
245 | .El | |
246 | If you specify | |
247 | .Ql B | |
248 | and the client device is audio only, then | |
249 | .Dq Music/Folders | |
250 | will be used as the root container. | |
251 | .It Cm serial | |
252 | Set the serial number reported to clients. Defaults to | |
253 | .Dq 00000000 . | |
254 | .It Cm strict_dlna | |
255 | Set to | |
256 | .Dq yes | |
257 | to strictly adhere to DLNA standards. This will allow server-side downscaling | |
258 | of very large JPEG images, which may hurt JPEG serving performance on (at | |
259 | least) Sony DLNA products. Set to | |
260 | .Dq no | |
261 | otherwise. | |
262 | .El | |
263 | .Sh FILES | |
264 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | |
265 | .It Pa /etc/minidlna.conf | |
266 | System-wide default configuration file. | |
267 | .El | |
268 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
269 | .Xr minidlna 1 |