Geek alert!
Theres a new version of Coherence (0.6.8) and there’s some hints it will work for me. The files I want to share to my media player are on the samba server, the NAS with a poor implementation of DLNA and UPnP. It requires a Coherence backend (yamj) so before I can scream about Coherence configuration opaqueness. I need to install YAMJ which requires mediainfo which requires knowing the secret sauce recipe (mediainfo, when you find it is a ubuntu ppa so that’s another dance with System->Software Sources and apt-get on the terminal and test it. Actually mediainfo is kind of a nice program, if you know what it’s doing. I could have used it a year or so ago.
Up the ladder to YAMJ which is, excuse my french, a fucking bitch to get working in Linux. It’s a java program but it’s Windows centric in the sparse documentation. There’s a wiki that has the answer if you can find it.
Since my files are on the samba/NAS server, YAMJ is going to take forever ( or a day) to index them and I see from the status messages things I hope don’t see in the final index. A real movie file (.rm
) that I converted to mpg4/avi might have a tag that it came from an Officer and Gentleman. It didn’t. I assume I can get around that or I’ll fail in the next step – Getting Coherence and the yamj backend working., ick! I can assume that it will not work.
It’s more fun and just as frustrating as watching the socialists Democrats take over health care with lies of cost savings It won’t be cost savings I’ll ever see. In their neverland it’s enough to proclaim it and will occur because they said so.
Maybe those politicians should write some code and documentation if they need to understand how the real world works.
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