What is your Subsonic setup?

[wiobyrne]

In terms of security, and protecting yourself and your network, what else do you all do?

I have an Ubuntu 11.04 box and would like to really encrypt all transmissions in and out but have trouble figuring out SSH, or anything else I can do to lock things down.

Any help is appreciated.

[GJ51]

I'm on a Server 2008 R2 box using a Supermicro Socket 775 mobo with a 2.83GHz quad core Xeon 65 W CPU, 8GB ram with 6 2TB drives. The boot drive is a Seagate XT 7200 rpm drive and the rest are Samsung F4 2TB drives.
I'm thinking of upgrading the box to a RAID 5,6,50, or 60 setup by adding a RAID controller and 3 more Samsung F4's

I'm torn between

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6816117152

and

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6816151039

for the RAID controller.

Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.

[BKKKPewsey]

I am running SS on a small square black box with pretty blue lights (which occasionally turn purple or red grrr!)
It has the word acer on the front. As it now makes sounds (thanks to SS)
Then I think that must stand for Amplification by Coherent Energy Release

[trickydick]

So this weekend i implemented Windows Home Server 2011, but I did it a little different. I originally was hosting it on Server 2008 r2 x64 Enterprise Edition, but did not have a true license for it and was tired of rearming/cracking it. When my purchase license came in for WHS i decided to move that way. Instead of just reloading my server with WHS, I decided to download Microsofts FREE Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Core Edition. This is a very limited OS that uses Windows Server Core. Its basically a DOS screen and no GUI! Its like running Windows PE. Thats fine with me i just need a way to implement IIS and Tomcat. Now this OS does support IIS and you could literally run your whole subonic site on this very slim OS saving you ALOT of memory, but instead I loaded WHS in hyper-v and allocated almost all CPU /memory to it. All managment is done via another desktop...or laptop. Today will be the first active use of it and I will see what my customers say based on speed and streaming times. I loaded WHS to use it's features in my home network (homegroup, xbox streaming, etc). I love every bit of it.

[Synthesis]

My Subsonic configuration is as follows.. I'll let the screenshot do the talking for the actual hardware...


I have 4 VMs running on the system. Subsonic is currently being hosted on my 2008 R2 server which has 16 gigs and quad cores assigned to it.

I have the -threads switch set to 4, and I am using the updated "transcode.bat" method with the latest FFMPEG software build on 4.5 stable.

I have a total of 9 users, three of which use the system regularly (myself included). 60 MBit down, 5 MBit up on Charter.

I regularly stream both video/music to my cell phone and Nook Color running Cyanogenmod 7.

I'd love a dedicated video player for Android, in the Subsonic app, rather than having to go to the browser to watch videos.

Love my Subsonic!

[trickydick]

@Synthesis
Man thats a nice setup. How does the utilization look when someone is streaming? I get around 50% CPU on Hyper-V (I've allocated 2 CPU's to my subsonic server)
I orginally ran my subsonic on my ESXi server, but my Tyan motherboard/Operton processeors doesn't support 64-bit virtualization. At the time I was running it on a Windows 2008 box, but i really wanted to it to be on R2, so I turned my Gaming rig (i don't game anymore), into my Hyper-V Setup. That and I wanted Remote-FX capability....anyway


What is the thread count do?

Whats your transcoding Batch file command? Why not just run the commadn in subsonic?

I too stream from a rooted Thunderbolt (running a rooted RUU).

I too love Subsonic! Its the best streaming web site yet. I've used many others before.

[Synthesis]

@Synthesis
Man thats a nice setup. How does the utilization look when someone is streaming? I get around 50% CPU on Hyper-V (I've allocated 2 CPU's to my subsonic server)
I orginally ran my subsonic on my ESXi server, but my Tyan motherboard/Operton processeors doesn't support 64-bit virtualization. At the time I was running it on a Windows 2008 box, but i really wanted to it to be on R2, so I turned my Gaming rig (i don't game anymore), into my Hyper-V Setup. That and I wanted Remote-FX capability....anyway

Thank you. I am proud of my setup, it does everything I need and more. Especially with the multi-nic interface on my managed Gig-E network. (I work on servers/networks for a living. My home setup rivals many high-end small business LAN/Server setups).

With one person streaming at default bitrate of 1000k a sec, utilization is less than 20% total across all four cores. When I have more than one person on and streaming, I have seen utilization as high as 75%.

What is the thread count do?

I have seen as many as 45 different threads under full load with 9 users. I do have to qualify this by stating that 2 of those "users" are in-home streaming over the Gig-E or Wireless N.

Whats your transcoding Batch file command? Why not just run the commadn in subsonic?

For the video formats: transcode.bat %o %s %b %w %h

The batch file is set up as such and saved in the transcode folder.

@echo off
setlocal

REM 1-start, 2-file, 3-bitrate, 4-width, 5-height
cd c:\subsonic\transcode
ffmpeg.exe -ss %1 -i %2 -async 30 -b %3k -s %4x%5 -ar 44100 -threads 4 -ac 2 -vol 1024 -v 0 -f flv -vcodec libx264 -fpre .\presets\libx264-medium.ffpreset -


The presets are to allow for different quality levels. Things improved quality-wise by a large margin.
I found the thread on here, but for the life of me cannot find it now.

[bushman4]

I agree with Tricky... ditch the batch file and just run the command directly via subsonic's transcode functions.

Replace your "transcode.bat" transcode command with:

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ffmpeg.exe -ss %o -i %s -async 30 -b %bk -s %wx%h -ar 44100 -threads 4 -ac 2 -vol 1024 -v 0 -f flv -vcodec libx264 -fpre .\presets\libx264-medium.ffpreset -

Glenn

[GJ51]

ffmpeg -ss %o -i %s -async 1 -b %bk -s %wx%h -ar 44100 -ac 2 -v 0 -f flv -vcodec libx264 -preset fast -threads 0 -


ffmpeg -ss %o -i %s -async 30 -b %bk -r 23-.976 -s %wx%h -ar 44100 -ac 2 -v 0 -f flv -vcodec libx264 -preset fast -threads 0 -

[Synthesis]

Here's the thread on the batch file.

I will move the encode string back into Subsonic directly and try it. But as I stated, I did notice a definitive improvement in the quality with the batch file scripted.

viewtopic.php?t=5466

[lars mars]

I'm running Subsonic on my (Debian) fileserver at home. In total, the fileserver consists of 16 disks at the moment:

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Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
Disk /dev/sde: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdf: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdg: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdh: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdi: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdj: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdk: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdm: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
Disk /dev/sdn: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdl: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdo: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdp: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes


Music is being served off a RAID5 array of 4 500GB drives (sde-sdh), so in total I have 1.5TB available for my music, of which about 350GB is used right now. I'm still in the process of re-transcoding all my music to lossless (AAC), from a variation of mp3 bitrates. A tedious process which I dearly would have been able to automate. Unfortunately, CD-feeding needs some hands...
For transcoding I use XLC on my Mac. For tagging MusicBrainz Picard is used, which I think does a very nice job.

what is your point to transcode from various (more or less) lossy mp3 to "lossless" format???? once it is in a "lossy" format you can't transcode it up to lossless! whats lost is lost mate, you can take up more hdd space but you wont restore quality!

[GJ51]

Now on 8 2TB Samsung F4 drives in a RAID 50 array. + a Seagate 2TB XT for the system drive.

Xeon 2.83GHz CPU, 8GB ram

http://maplegrovepartners.subsonic.org/share/LfSmu

Array is still building and SS is reindexed.

.m2ts still buffer on the quad core Xeon. They play fine on SS installed on my Core i7-950. It just takes a lot of CPU to crunch full Blue Ray video.

Anything short of full .m2ts video runs perfect. Reformatting Blue ray video at slightly lower bitrates enables them to run on the server.

http://maplegrovepartners.subsonic.org/share/uBDVp

My next server (the one on the drawing board) will not have any prolems with any video. It'll be a 4U rack server with 24 3 TB hard drives in a RAID 60 array with dual LGA 1366 Xeon's and enough ram to run every OS known in its own VM. "The private Cloud."

Thank goodness my neighbor is an electrician, this one will need its own line from the box.

[tricksel]

what is your point to transcode from various (more or less) lossy mp3 to "lossless" format???? once it is in a "lossy" format you can't transcode it up to lossless! whats lost is lost mate, you can take up more hdd space but you wont restore quality!

I'm not transcoding up from mp3, just re-encoding from CD; hence my note about hand-feeding the CD's. I am familiar with the fact you can't upgrade the quality from a worse source.

[webcore]

We offer vanilla Subsonic cloud servers to trial on our website http://webcore.ie/blog/372/subsonic-cloud-music-server-trial/ but would love some feedback about it. Not sure if we are missing anything or if there is some tweaking that should be done. Would love some advice anyhow if possible. Many thanks in advance.

[utopian]

Running on a 50Gb disk VM win 2008 R2 server with 3Gb of memory which is on one of my two ESXi hosts...