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

• 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.
• 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).

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Todo

In no particular order:

• 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.
• Convert other playlist (.m3u .pls) formats to Syabas playlist. - Syabas already added support.
• Scraping/parsing of .NFO files (for media info).
• mms:// protocol support (libmms looks ok, but has own select() call, needs deeper inspection).
• 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.
• Already watched DB. Stage 1: in memory, Stage 2: bdb on disk. How do we visually represent it?
• Playing mp3s, and photos from RAR files don't appear to work.
• When playing music, allow to specify pictures to view.
• Add ROOT that is just a A HREF link somewhere (to support integration of YAMJ and other jukeboxes).
• Explore what more power we get from libdvdnav: choose audio tracks etc.
• Support ANT's Movie Database .xml files.
• Remote skin support, e.g. invoke play from an iPhone or any other web enabled device.
• Support Unix builds to handle "~/". It is expanded by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_home;

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 2.2.0 Binaries for Windows OS.
• OsX 2.2.0 Binaries for Apple Macintosh Os X (Universal).
• nmt 2.2.0 Binaries for the Network Media Tank. (Popcornhour A-100).
• Linux 2.2.0 Binaries for Linux OS, Intel (add more if you can).
• OpenSolaris 2.2.0 Binaries for OpenSolaris (11/08) OS, Intel.
• ReadyNAS 2.2.0 Binaries and instructions for Infrant ReadyNAS.
• Synology 2.2.0 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.
• D-Link DNS-323 Binaries and instructions for D-Link NAS.

(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.