Complete newbie in desperate need of guidance

[Platinum]

Hello. I may have wandered straight into the real world with this one.

I am a school student with little experience with anything. We were supposed to pick a system online which to analyze and write down what we believe the different views to be and my group picked Universal Media Server. I was fine with this, I could do that, however a much more basic problem seems to have occurred to me. I don't know how to open the complete project.

I kind of downloaded Eclipse and the zip containing UMS, able to open the Java files, but as I am inexperienced with Java on the technical level (I have simple programming experience so I know the basis of that, but I don't know how to handle the files) I am unsure how to best open the entire project. I also don't know if there is some special way that this is supposed to be done, with some specific program or if there's a particular file with which to open the entire thing, or if I am just dreaming and there is no such convenient thing. Um. I find the latter unlikely.

I suppose I am asking, how do I analyze the program? How do I open it to see the code in a logical way that doesn't force me to open every single file manually? Also, what's an .nsi file?

I apologize for not looking around harder for the answer on this website if the answer is right in front of me. Thank you for taking your time. I do look forward to feeling just a little bit more confident in whatever I am doing.

Regards, Platinum

[Wolfgan]

You may check the full source code at https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... diaServer/ and build UMS on your PC with UMSbuilder if needed viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2131

[Platinum]

You may check the full source code at https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... diaServer/ and build UMS on your PC with UMSbuilder if needed viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2131

Those were the things I was able to figure out myself, but allow me to say this anyway. Thank you very much.

Now follow-up questions; What program could I use to open the full source code in and easily examine it and how do I do that? Is there an easily accessible guide to UMSbuilder somewhere around here that I simply haven't found?

[Platinum]

I managed to open the entire thing in Eclipse by copy-pasting in the .project and .classpath files of a new project into the UniversalMediaServer-master folder and then importing it into the Eclipse Workspace, however, when I opened it I had over 7000 errors. I clearly didn't open it the right way. The errors seem to all concern the package and importing, I will assume all other errors concern that those doesn't work. Anyone who could tell me how to properly open the project in such a program? I'd be deeply thankful.

... Also, is there an easy way to keep track of all threads created? I can't seem to find any programs that are made for that purpose... Haha...

[Platinum]

... I wouldn't be so lucky that there's actually a documentation somewhere which tells how the architecture of the Universal Media Server is built? XD

[Optimus_prime]

Check the Wiki on how to build using Netbeans
https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... erver/wiki

[ExSport]

Check ps3mediaserver branch on github where they have "how to" how to configure it for Eclipse and other IDE.

[Platinum]

Oh, my. That helps. I didn't know that 24 page wiki existed.

Thank you very much~!

... So, anyone know an easy way to keep track of threads? XD

[txslyguy]

I am finding myself in the same situation, partly due to a power supply that decided to short out sending shockwaves through the machine, causing the harddrive with the boot system on it to fail and losing its I/O and boot sectors. Not to mention Win 7, most of software installed, all sorts of links, downloads, desktop configuration along with numerous other issues. I am now reinstalling UMS and thought some documentation would be nice. The reply with the link to GITHUM for the UMS Wiki is proving most beneficial.