Llink

llink is a media streamer that let's you play movies, view online trailers, browse images or play music over a network using the http protocol. It should work with most Syabas NMT hardware (NetworkedMediaTank middleware based players), such as the Popcorn Hour A- and B-series, HDX, iSTAR, Egreat a whole range of others, possibly even a couple of older ones like the LinkTheater. Some of the best reasons to run llink is that it can run on a great many platforms, including most popular NAS devices - even on the NMT player itself - and it can play media directly from RAR files.

llink-2.2.0 aqua skin

llink-1.9.9 jukebox skin

llink-2.2.0 clterm skin

llink-2.2.0 nmt skin

llink-2.2.0 kamaishi_skies skin

llink overview

• List of compatible players

Features

• Parses various video containers: vob, avi, ts, mkv, tp, mov, m2ts, evo.
• Streams any file type the NMT player can handle: mp3, flac, jpeg, png etc.
• Can play straight from rar files: no more need to unrar your media. (Comes with special unrar-3.7.8-seek.)
• SSDP / UPnP discovery support (although minimal).
• Skin support: make your own html templates or choose from pre-built.
• Simple iMDb querying to look up media information for Jukebox skins.
• Both HD and SD skins available.
• Light, tiny and clean code for Unix, OsX and Windows. Compiles to most platforms.
• Paginating: support to send listings in pages, with tags for Next/Prev.
• PlayAll cgi tag, and PlayAllFrom.
• External subtitles: subtitle files can be consolidated in one directory.
• libdvdnav support (and libdvdcss): provides basic playback of DVD .iso and .img files and from DVD drives.
• UDF 2.50 BD5-ISO support: provides basic playback of Bluray and HD-DVD.
• (External process support, like mencoder: incomplete).
• Can initiate custom shell scripts.
• Keep track of what you have already seen: small database for 'watched' media.

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Todo

In no particular order:

• Add a transparent FTP fs layer? this would be well nice if it worked with RAR. Be quite easy to do now as a 'unrar' replacement, 'unftp'.
• Scraping/parsing of .NFO files (for media info).
• mms:// protocol support (libmms looks ok, but has own select() call, needs deeper inspection).
  • Implemented as unmms (unrar clone) but Stream support on PCH is lacking. Please bug Syabas about letting us set stream-mode
• Scrape/look for subtitles (ex. http://www.subtitlesource.org/title/tt0325710/).
• Proposed menus. Partly working since v2.2.0
• Configuration via web page.
• Avalaunch style backgrounds. (Ex. fetch picture from NASA every 30s and refresh) for mp3/playlists.
• Playing mp3s, and photos from RAR files don't appear to work.
• When playing music, allow to specify pictures to view.
• Explore what more power we get from libdvdnav: choose audio tracks etc. ALso, subtitle streams since C200 can display!
• Support ANT's Movie Database .xml files.
  • Difficult. ANT did weird things like put entire DB in one giant XML, with no references to the disk path.
• Support Movienizer's Movie Database .xml files. Please provide sample .xml files for inspection.
• Remote skin support, e.g. invoke play from an iPhone or any other web enabled device.
• Apparently directories/files with "&" may not get a tick in the visited db. URL decoding?

Additional resources

Feel free to contribute to the wiki documentation:

• User guide for functions.
• Installation guide for Windows.
• Installation guide for Linux.
• Macros supported by the HTML engine in llink.
• Sample Files for configuring llink Jukebox xml.
• Compiling Guide for compiling, cross-compiling and compiling on Windows.

Download binaries

Note: if you are in luck, devices not listed here may share platform and architecture. Please report your success/failure.

• Windows 2.2.2 binaries for Windows OS
• OsX 2.2.3 binaries for Apple Macintosh Os X (Universal).
• NMT 2.2.2 binaries for the Network Media Tank (Popcornhour A-100, C200 etc.)
• Linux 2.2.2 binaries for Linux OS, Intel (add more if you can)
• OpenSolaris 2.2.2 binaries for OpenSolaris (svn121) OS, Intel
• ReadyNAS 2.2.2 binaries and instructions for Infrant/Netgear ReadyNAS
• Synology 2.2.2 binaries and instructions for Synology NAS (ppc and arm)
• Asus WL-500GL binaries for Asus router running OpenWrt
• Asus WL-500g Premium binaries for Asus router running Oleg's firmware
• landisk binaries for IO-Data landisk uhdl-av, cpu-SH4
• "llink on a stick" let's you run llink from a USB stick or external USB drive (unmaintained)
• D-Link DNS-323 binaries and instructions for D-Link NAS
• Bubba server 2.2.0 Linux compile instructions (no binaries)
• AzBox HD 2.2.0 plugin binaries
• Buffalo 2.2.3 binaries and instructions for Buffalo Linkstation (arm)
• Thecus N5200-N0503 2.2.2 binaries (intel Atom)
• QNAP 2.2.4 binaries for QNAP TS-109/209 series (arm)

(Compilers, you can upload new versions directly in the wiki, see Synology page as example)

Sources

• Sources Build your own for your platform. Includes autoconf for Unix and project files for Windows Visual Studio.
• libdvdcss sources are: libdvdcss-1.2.10.tar.gz
• mime.types defining MIME types, generally not needed, only if you use it with a browser.
• libdvdnav sources are: libdvdnav-4.1.2 libdvdnav sources now included.
• libdvdread with MSVC++ Project files: [http://www.lundman.net/ftp/llink/libdvdread-0.9.7-win32.tar.gz
• libdvdread sources for llink v2.0.8 to 2.1.1 only are: libdvdread-0.9.7.tar.bz

Known issues

Although llink is capable of many things, there are limitations that should be known to users. Please read here for details: Llink:Known_issues

Changelog

The llink changelog contains the basic release notes history.