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LeX-Interactive MediaServer README Copyright 2009-2015 by A.J. Admiraal
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by
the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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Introduction
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LXiMediaServer can be used to play media files from a PC over a local network on 
a DLNA capable device (e.g. television, game console, media center).
LXiMediaServer aims at compatibility with a large range of devices by
transcoding all media to a standard MPEG2 stream that can be played on almost 
any DLNA capable device, also subtitles and audio language selection are 
supported. Furthermore, several common timing and synchronization errors in
media files are fixed on the fly while transcoding.


Compilation
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To compile LXiMediaServer on Linux or Mac, first ensure all compilers and 
development libraries are installed. On a Debian based system (e.g. Ubuntu) this
can be done from a command shell with the following command:

# sudo apt-get install debhelper dpkg-dev bash g++ gcc make binutils-dev cmake 
libvlc-dev libvlccore-dev uuid-dev

Open a shell and enter the lximediaserver source directory, run cmake and make to 
build:

# cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
# make

To build Windows binaries on Linux, install mingw. On a Debian based system this
can be done from a command shell with the following command:

# sudo apt-get install mingw-w64

Open a shell and enter the lximediaserver source directory, run cmake and make to 
build:

# cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=deploy/win32/Toolchain-i686-w64-mingw32.cmake 
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
# make