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Many thanks for your kind help,
Installed xargs,Now got this:

ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC68U_3.0.0.4 Fri Jan 31 05:21:52 UTC 2014
wei@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root# /opt/etc/init.d/S99debian start
Chroot'ed services seems to be already started, exiting...
wei@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root# /opt/etc/init.d/S99debian stop
Stopping chroot'ed Debian services...
[FAIL] Stopping minidlna: failed!
umount: can't umount /tmp/mnt/sda1/debian/dev: Device or resource busy
Done.
wei@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root#


Router runnning owncloud follow this guide:
http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=15528&highlight=debian
I wrote Service-start was:
#!/bin/sh
sleep 10
mount -o bind /dev/ /mnt/sda1/debian/dev/
mount -o bind /proc/ /mnt/sda1/debian/proc/
mount -o bind /sys/ /mnt/sda1/debian/sys/
/mnt/sda1/debian/utils/chroot /mnt/sda1/debian service lighttpd start


May be it is no good??

Wait, you don't have xargs installed from point 5
Outside debian install findutils
Code:
ipkg install nano http://goo.gl/5Ltmig
 
/opt/etc/init.d/S99debian stop
One more time
/opt/etc/init.d/S99debian stop
And start
/opt/etc/init.d/S99debian start

Or just reboot router and go to 192.168.1.1:8200
 
Many thanks!! got it working! Deleted mount command from /jffs/scripts/services-start.
Add Lighttpd to /opt/etc/chroot-services.list get owncloud start.
Everything is working fine.
 
Everything works fine without:

mount -o bind /dev/ /mnt/sda1/debian/dev/
mount -o bind /proc/ /mnt/sda1/debian/proc/
mount -o bind /sys/ /mnt/sda1/debian/sys/

Why is this needed?
 
to install other packages inside debian or to modify some options like I wroted in the first post, ex.
apt-get install lighttpd
apt-get install transmission
 
minidlna.conf

So I install this minidlna :)
TeHashX, please tell where I can find minidlna.conf and log files?

Sry for stupid question but what is debian?
I have transmission install through optware, is the debian version better?
Does debian high memory/cpu/hdd usage?
 
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So I install this minidlna :)
TeHashX, please tell where I can find minidlna.conf and log files?
/mnt/sda1/debian/opt/minidlna

Sry for stupid question but what is debian?
Is a version of linux running on router without all services like a full distribution, read here first lines http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=10558&highlight=debian
I have transmission install through optware, is the debian version better?
For beginners optware version is better
Does debian high memory/cpu/hdd usage?
Memory usage is very low
 
How is Twonky server compared to minidlna?

Only tested Twonky briefly, but it's awesome. You can configure through the web interface and it has many virtual folders such as 'recently added', 'last played', etc. Only problem is my new Samsung TV does not conform to DLNA standards and I get no thumbnails or resume. Everything works fine on my old 2010 C series Samsung though.

I just tried Serviio and man I'm sold. It has all the Twonky features and then some (android app, pulls in movie metadata like xbmc, online rss video sources) and most importantly, everything works on my new Samsung. To date, only minidlna has worked. The issue is that I wanted to keep things simple and have everything running on the router, since it's on 24/7 anyways, but Serviio won't run on the router...not enough memory. It also requires purchasing license.
 
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I installed twonky server and it has some nice features but unfortunately no bookmarks and resume support for my E 2013 series tv.
 
Some of you installed twonky. Where can I fond the package?

Unfortunately twonky server is not free, maybe someone knows a version that I'm not aware, please post it here.
Installation is very easy, I setup v6 and v7, see screenhots

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Back to minidlna, is there any way to add subtitle support?
With the stock media player I was able to have subtitles
 
I'm using an LG smart tv.
I'm also trying with VLC, but it crashes as soon as I try to browser for DLNA servers
 
I'm using an LG smart tv.
I'm also trying with VLC, but it crashes as soon as I try to browser for DLNA servers

VLC crashes? Is built in media server stopped?

Try to rebuild minidlna database:
Code:
/opt/etc/init.d/S99debian stop
rm -r /mnt/[COLOR="Red"]sda1[/COLOR]/debian/opt/minidlna
/opt/etc/init.d/S99debian start
 

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