Can the Raspberry Pi handle Serviio? If not, is there something equivalent that will work?

Question

Currently I have Serviio running on my computer to serve media files to our TV. I'd like to run this from my Pi instead, is this going to work?

If not, is there another application that's comparable that will work?

Answer 1

According to the Serviio Downloads page:

Minimal requirements

• 512 MB of memory or more

• 20 MB of disk space (plus additional space for storing library definition), when using transcoding make sure there is at least 1GB free (depending on the original file size)

• Java 6 installed

From these, it looks like it might be possible to get it running on the Raspberry Pi, though it is certainly marginal. Also, it is probably only an option on newer 512MB Raspberry Pi's than with old 256MB devices.

I would suggest that you give it a go. It is possible that the Raspberry Pi will be fast enough to run it without a decent JIT compiler, though hopefully we will get that eventually too.

You will also almost certainly need to need to compile or install your own copies of FFmpeg, libRTMP 2.4 and the Lame MP3 Encoder (v. 3.98).