? I'm running Unix/Linux. How come audio/video reencoding isn't working for me?
A Unix/Linux users need to configure their reencoding binaries
before reencoding will work.
? What's the difference between a media type and a media format?
A To the hive, a media type is a broad catagorization of media, like music
or movies. A format, on the other hand, is the specific encoding or file format
used by a media resource. Examples of formats would be mp3, avi, mpeg, etc.
? What media formats does the hive support?
A Technically, the hive can stream anything. But media resources must be loaded into
the catalog in order to be accessable. Currently, the hive can load mp3 and ogg vorbis
encoded audio. On the video side, it can import your tv library if you are using
MythTV.
? The hive isn't starting. How can I tell what's going wrong?
A Check the log file. It's called mhive.log, and can be found in your system's
temp directory.
? The hive is running, but I can't see anything.
A Make sure that you're looking at a media type that has stuff in it.
Each skin has a drop-down list or control that lets you choose what media type to view.
? The hive is running, but I can't play anything.
A Check the user log file. It's called activity.log, and can be found in
the hive's install directory, in the users/[username] directory.
? I've just installed the hive on my Linux box, but it won't start.
A media hive has only been tested against Sun's JVM. Some linux distros come
with gcj, which will not work as it is missing some media framework classes. If
you have both the Sun VM and gcj installed, make sure the Sun executable is running by
typing "java -version" from a shell prompt.
? How can I run the hive on a port other than 8080?
A media hive defaults to port 8080, but that's easy to change. Simply edit your
mhive.bat/mhive.sh file, and add "-port 80" (without the quotes, of course) to
the end of the line that starts with "java".
? I'm running Linux, and I can't get badges to work. Any ideas?
A You're probably running a headless system, meaning you don't have
a graphical desktop environment (X/KDE/Gnome) active. media hive (or more accurately,
Java) requires access to certain graphics libraries in order to render badges, and these
libraries aren't available when running headless.