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Hi,
MiniDLNA scans my media files successful, but once everything is done, even though I dont have changes to the media files, when I restart the router, the media list goes blank. I have to force it to scan. The database location i configured is: /tmp/mnt/MediaDisk/.config/dlnadb. Rescan at startup and Scan during next run unchecked.

1) Any idea why is this happening?
2) Is there a way to make MiniDLNA add only the delta on the media everytime it scans?

THanks

I guess I found the reason from the following logs… Probably coz minidlna starts even before my external drive(MediaDisk) got mounted and hence would be starting with an empty/default config. I have to force it to run from UI and it would pick it up automatically. Anybody can guide me how to start minidlna after the disk gets mounted?

Jun 7 07:12:49 z80-home-rt daemon.warn minidlna[804]: Starting MiniDLNA version 1.0.18.2 [SQLite 3.7.2].
Jun 7 07:12:49 z80-home-rt daemon.warn minidlna[804]: Creating new database…
Jun 7 07:12:49 z80-home-rt daemon.warn minidlna[804]: HTTP listening on port 6625
….
Jun 7 07:12:51 z80-home-rt daemon.notice ntfs-3g[824]: Mounted /dev/sdb3 (Read-Write, label "MediaDisk", NTFS 3.1)
Jun 7 07:12:51 z80-home-rt daemon.notice ntfs-3g[824]: Cmdline options: iocharset=utf8,noatime,nodev
Jun 7 07:12:51 z80-home-rt daemon.notice ntfs-3g[824]: Mount options: iocharset=utf8,nodev,allow_other,nonempty,noatime,fsname=/dev/sdb3,blkdev,blksize=4096
Jun 7 07:12:51 z80-home-rt daemon.notice ntfs-3g[824]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1
Jun 7 07:12:51 z80-home-rt user.info hotplug[465]: USB ntfs fs at /dev/sdb3 mounted on /tmp/mnt/MediaDisk
Jun 7 07:12:52 z80-home-rt daemon.notice ntfs-3g[835]: Version 2010.10.2 integrated FUSE 27

What I did is disabling the Media Server in the GUI and start/stop it using mount/unmount scripts.

Before you disable the Media Server, make your settings, especially the Database Location in the Media Server page. Save your settings, and copy the minidlna.conf to /jffs (or your HD). (I can't remember where is minidlna.conf located, it might be in /tmp/etc. I am sure you can find it out using find / -name minidlna.conf -print.)

Then put this line in the Run After Mounting box in the USB Support page:

minidlna -f /jffs/minidlna.conf

and put the line below to Run before Unmounting box in the same page:

service dlna stop

If you have anything unclear, pls feel free to let me know.

kcheon, Thanks for the excellent tutorial! I followed it and looks like it is now not creating the db everytime, it just adds watches to those folders.

One issue: There were couple of media files when they are present, minidlna takes more than 95% of cpu for a very long time (>30 mins) and i had to reboot the router. After moving these files away, it works ok. Not sure whether it is minidlna issue or not, and not sure whehter i will hit this issue again on a new media file that I download.

I don't have such a experience. What type of files are those, video, mp3 or pictures?

Apologies in advance for posting to this old thread. I am facing the same issue and hoping I can get some help.

@kcheon: Thank you for providing a solution. Can you help me with what files do I need to change to do the following:

Then put this line in the Run After Mounting box in the USB Support page:

minidlna -f /jffs/minidlna.conf
and put the line below to Run before Unmounting box in the same page:

service dlna stop
If you have anything unclear, pls feel free to let me know.

I am using asusWRT, which is based on tomato, so hoping this solution will work for me.

Many thanks