I've just registered to post here =P
I'm also running UMS (just updated to 4.40, but 4.30 did work too) on a Cubieboard A20 with Cubian (r5 in my case, I believe it's more stable and lightweight), installed on NAND.
So far experience is good, you can play videos just fine, without any major lag or problem. Transcoding/muxing is trickier, you won't ever get any tsMuxer runing on armhf (as is cubieboard A20), but instead you might opt for ffmpeg. I'll soon post a nice script to use ffmpeg as muxer (not transcoder) in place of txMuxer. Muxing with FFMPEG does have some micro-spikes, but as long as you let it load for a minute, it plays fine.
That being said, I'm overcloking the Cubieboard to 1.2-1.1GHz and using performance governor. I'll too post a script. (I'm not using higher voltages, but I do have a heatsink for the CPU and RAM and a USB powered fan).
You must forget about using the provided ffmpeg and txMuxer (in linux/) folder, as that is (I believe) x86, not arm.
Installing ffmpeg might be kind of tricky, in my case I've had to use this repository here:
http://www.deb-multimedia.org/
(To sum up:)
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echo "deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
In case you already had ffmpeg installed, try "sudo apt-get upgrade" or "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". Look out you don't break anything with "dist-upgrade".
Mediainfo might also not be intuitive, install it by issuing:
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sudo apt-get install mediainfo libzen-dev libmediainfo-dev
And don't forget to copy the UMS.conf file to whatever user is running UMS, in my case:
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sudo cp UMS.conf /root/.config/UMS/UMS.conf
And modify the ffmpeg path to use the system ffmpeg and not the provided one.
As for Java, I don't know of Cubian X1, but Cubian r5 comes with Java 7 preinstalled.
You are now ready to go!
PS:
You might also want to install mplayer and mencoder
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sudo apt-get install mplayer mencoder
