Just wanted to say a big thanks to peterstevens as your post give me the start of the solution to getting mkvs to play on my 46inch series 5 1080p samsung lcd tv with freeview hd builtin i have used ubuntu a little bit and the terminal never used bash commands before but with your links and then a couple of work arounds to the steps i managed to get the minidlna up to version ending .18 on my goflex mkvs work perfectly i was watching avatar streamed to the tv whilst also copying 2GB from a laptop to the goflex and it didnt struggle at all! I had to google the command to make folders in bash but other than that it went quite well and took 1 hour to fix the goflex home samsung mkv file problem myself.
I would not wait around for Seagate support on here to update the goflex to 18 minidlna as they seem more inclined to shoo us all away to samsung instead which is kinda fair its sammy who changed the header but still kinda poor form seagate as you could solve the problem with a firmware update to ver 18
Anyway if anyone else feeling brave heres my list of commands i used to update the goflex dlna
WARNING - doing anything like this could render your goflex unusable so dont go crying to Seagate for a refund if it all goes wrong, you do it at your own risk as i did. my best advice is if you ain't confident enough don't go there until you have used terminal a bit.
Heres my steps minus the make directory command as i cannot remember it but i had to do it as the steps list directorys that dont exist on the goflex home - also my steps at start vary slightly as i could not be bothered to suss out in bash how to copy the 2 files to the 0common folder here you go
In Terminal on for example ubuntu
ssh yourgoflexusername_hipserv2_seagateplug_XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX@192.168.X.XX
sudo -E -s
/etc/init.d/minidlna.init status
/etc/init.d/minidlna.init stop
/etc/init.d/minidlna.init status
chown root:root /home/yourgoflexusername/GoFlex\ Home\ Public/offnc10/minidlna
chown root:root /home/yourgoflexusername/GoFlex\ Home\ Public/offnc10/libjpeg.so.8.0.2
chmod 755 /home/yourgoflexusername/GoFlex\ Home\ Public/offnc10/minidlna
chmod 755 /home/yourgoflexusername/GoFlex\ Home\ Public/offnc10/libjpeg.so.8.0.2
cd /usr/sbin
mv minidlna minidlna.sav
mv /home/yourgoflexusername/GoFlex\ Home\ Public/offnc10/minidlna minidlna
ls -al minidlna
cd /home/opt/lib <---at this point you need to make these directorys on the goflex
mv /home/yourgoflexusername/GoFlex\ Home\ Public/offnc10/libjpeg.so.8.0.2 libjpeg.so.8.0.2
cd /
ln -s /home/opt/lib/libjpeg.so.8.0.2 /home/opt/lib/libjpeg.so
ln -s /home/opt/lib/libjpeg.so.8.0.2 /home/opt/lib/libjpeg.so.8
ln -s /home/opt/lib/libjpeg.so.8.0.2 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so
ln -s /home/opt/lib/libjpeg.so.8.0.2 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8
ln -s /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.7.0.0 /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8
cd /
/etc/init.d/minidlna.init start
If all looks fine should stop dlna and do a rebuild but first check version then do the rebuild then restart it
Heres the last steps to do this
/usr/sbin/minidlna -V
/etc/init.d/minidlna.init stop
/usr/sbin/minidlna -d -f /etc/miniupnpd/minidlna.conf -R
when you know it has finished stop process with ctrl+c
the restart
/etc/init.d/minidlna.init start
all done!
Now you can enjoy mkv files on samsung tvs and the goflex is running minidlna version ending .18
But always remember if you do a seagate firmware update it may cause problems/stop mkv playing etc so you may want to take it back down to .17 before updating firmware but i have no idea what the next firmware will mean regarding doing your own mkv update so you have been warned!
Me however, i would much prefer to have mkvs working asap as its why i bought it really so i had to hack mine and as peter stated 'im glad i did'
Cheers,
Scorp
