Llink

llink

llink is a media streamer using the HTTP protocol and should work with most Syabas middleware hardware (NetworkMediaTank; Popcorn Hour A-100, HDX900, DuneHD, ISTAR mini, Egreat EG-M31A), and possibly others (LinkTheater).

List of compatible players

Parses vob, avi, ts, mkv, tp, mov, m2ts, evo.
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.
Light, tiny and clean code for Unix, OsX and Windows.
(external process support, like mencoder : incomplete).
External process support, like unrar). Comes with special unrar-3.7.8-seek. Can play straight from RAR files.
Paginating. Support to send listings in pages, with tags for next/prev.
PlayAll cgi tag, and PlayAllFrom.
External subtitles. Subtitle files be consolidates in one directory.

llink 1.4

llink 1.9.9

TODO

~~Browse history, when using parent button, remember where we were. h=34,12,2 needed in url~~
I would like one button (say Info on remote) to open a new page/menu with detail info, goto bookmark,delete etc?
Add a Sort-by button for changing sort type. Name, date, size, reverses.
~~Add goto percentage bookmark which may be what wizd uses~~ Appears to only work for MPEG.
Add a transparent FTP fs layer? this would be well nice if it worked with rar.
Pagination has no number-of-files, so wont stop next page, when there is none. Add &max= tag
~~Add libdvdread support, alas, supporting ISO inside rar is incredibly difficult.~~ beta in 2.0.7
Convert other playlist (.m3u .pls) formats to Syabas playlist
LOW: Scraping/parsing of .NFO files (for media info)
~~HIGH: Display support for jpeg, png, gif (doable but requires investigations)~~ working since 2.0.5
MEDIUM: mms:// support (libmms looks ok, but has own select() call, needs deeper inspection)
~~MEDIUM: Treat .img as .iso~~ TYPES change, and with libdvdread support it's done, 2.0.7.
LOW: Configuration via web (for all those newbies that don't feel comfortable with entering this in the .conf files)
http://www.subtitlesource.org/title/tt0325710/ Look for subtitles
Add "also dirlist" queue list, for playlist generation, when finding *.rar (also call unrar) and recursive playlists (also traverse these directories)
Proposed menus
Avalaunch style backgrounds. (fetch [1] every 30s and refresh) for mp3/playlists
Already watched DB. Stage 1: in memory, Stage 2: bdb on disk. How do we visually represent it?

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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

BINARIES

Updated 02 June 2008

Platforms and Architectures:

Windows Binaries for Windows OS
OsX Binaries for Apple Macintosh Os X (Universal)
nmt Binaries for the Network Media Tank. (Popcornhour A-100) (No install instructions...?)
Linux Binaries for Linux OS, Intel (add more if you can)
ReadyNAS Binaries and instructions for Infrant ReadyNAS
Synology Binaries and instructions for Synology NAS
Asus WL-500GL Binaries for Asus router running OpenWrt
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
D-Link DNS-323 Binaries and instructions for D-Link NAS

(Compilers, you can upload new versions directly, see Synology page)

SOURCES

Sources Build your own for your platform. Includes autoconf for Unix and project files for Windows Visual Studio
libdvdread sources are libdvdread-0.9.7.tar.bz
libdvdcss sources are libdvdcss-1.2.2.tar.gz
libdvdread with MSVC++ Project files. libdvdread-0.9.7-win32.tar.gz ( Also provide binary libdvdcss.dll? )

KNOWN ISSUES

From v2.0.3 the character combinations "&d=" or "&f=" will pass on to unrar and cause problems when trying to play, but ampersands and equal signs can be used in file and directory names. In previous versions you will not be able to play movies with the ampersand (&) or the equals sign (=) characters in the directory- or file name. Note: If no RAR support is needed, it's possible to make a workaround for it.

CHANGELOG

llink-2.0.7 changes includes:

32 bit lseek fix, would manifest as unable to seek/ff in large files. (found by dburckh)
libdvdread, should read .iso and .img files. (display .IFO/.VOB file to play)
SSDP announce to use bindif, if so specified (found by P.K.Lee)
Added -L option to work around LinkTheater bug