And now I've also bought a Dolby 5.1 digital sound receiver. The sound is so much better, than the lousy stereo I got from our TV.

Only thing left is to rework the cabling and mounting the speakers to the wall.

Watched "2001: A Space Odyssey" again last night :-).

/shared/music/
<complete list of everything below>
/shared/music/P
<complete list of everything below P>
/shared/music/P/Prodigy
<complete list of everything below P/Prodigy>

First I was playing around with some Perl and came up with the following solution:

% cat m3u
#!/usr/bin/perl
while(<>) {
chomp;
chdir $_;
system("fapg -r . > playlist.m3u");
}

Which would then become

find /shared/music -type d | m3u

Only 2 things wrong with this solution

1. Perl isn't needed
2. playlist.m3u is a bad filename sorting wise

For some odd reason I could not write it strait away in shell, but after some coffee it became

find /shared/music -type d | ( while read dir; do
    cd "$dir" && fapg -r . > 00-PLAYLIST.m3u
    done )

Note however that the usual find caveats apply: directories with a trailing space or directories with newlines in the name will not work.

When you start streaming there is almost always not right with the video stream... its is not encoded in mpeg2 which means the dm500 can't show it, or if it is in the right format there is something wrong with the aspect ratio.

So enter mencoder, which can be used for all kinds of transcoding. I wanted to convert avi files to mpeg2 (or DVD format) for showing on the dm. I'm now using the following shell script:

1 int main(int c) {
2     printf("This is nice");
3     exit(1);
4 }

Where you give it basename of the file you want to convert.

I also needed to a presize filter to make the video appear in the correct size on the tv screen, so the scale=presize=pal filter is needed in this case.