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A few moments ago I decided to finally install “some server” on OS X so I can watch media ( movies, … ) residing on my Mac, on my PS3 in the living room.

After doing some research I ended up with mediatomb.
This is how I did it and what went wrong along the way.

First try ended up with an error. A file version conflict.
sudo port install mediatomb
---> Fetching file
---> Attempting to fetch file-4.23.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/tools/file/
---> Attempting to fetch file-4.23.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
---> Attempting to fetch file-4.23.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.gw.com/mirrors/pub/unix/file/
---> Attempting to fetch file-4.23.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/file
---> Attempting to fetch file-4.23.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
---> Attempting to fetch file-4.23.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/file
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: file libexif spidermonkey nspr taglib
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.


As the screenshot shows, that file has been updated and v 4.23 is no longer available.

so I did:
port deps mediatomb

gave me:
port deps mediatomb
mediatomb has library dependencies on:
libiconv
zlib
spidermonkey
file
curl
libexif
expat
sqlite3
taglib
ffmpeg

First I installed the nasty one: “file”.
port install file

That went just fine.

I retried
port install mediatomb
and I think I’m ready to go now

Going to check things out on the PS3 right now. More on that later.

[UPDATE]
Everything runs smooth. Once and a while there is a hickup, but nothing serious.

One thing though, start mediatomb with the -i param from terminal to bind it to you computers IP address.

mediatomb -i 192.168.0.42


“Happy time from lazy chair!”