@ Mattew: thanks zo much for this very detailed and resourceful reply!

1. Downloaded and tried ZenCBR but the tool does not seem to work recursively (although it should...) so it was of little use as I'm not going to repeat the T command on every single sub directory in my Comic Books library... I must be doing something wrong here
2. Downloaded and configured ComicRack and it's doing it's thing as I'm writing this reply. It seems to be working OK, it takes quite some time to crunch through my -not too extensive- library <= started the whole thing barely a week ago and I'm quite pleased with the result I have at present (library on Synology NAS, served by Ubooquity and streamed to any possible device with a web client, both from local network as from the Internet
3. I'm all in favor for Open Source and Open Standards! So I kicked all the .cbr and replaced them with .cbz (well, in a couple of hours anyway... ;-))
4. Web i/f: like I already said, I do like it and it's quite 'usable' to say the least. I am looking forward to later versions where hopefully some features are improved / functionalities are added.

Anyway, Tom has my support and I'll put the money where my mouth is! :-)

Hi Tom,

Thanks for getting back to me so swift!

• Broken link of the Synology package: unfortunately I merely added a link to the forum thread in the F.A.Q. I am not in contact with the author of the package. The most efficient thing to do would probably be for you to ask him directly on the Synology forum.  <= OK I'll give it a try!
  According to his signature, the packages he made are available on the following repository:https://synopackages.welike.technology/
  Might be worth a try... <= already added the link to my package sources but nothing comes up...
• Problems with CBR files: Ubooquity uses a third-party library (called Junrar) to access images contained in RAR (cbr) files. The lib has not evolved for years and I don't have the skills to fix it. So improvements to the way Ubooquity manages cbr files is highly unlikely.
  But to be honest I never understood why people thought it would be a good idea to package comics in RAR files rather than in Zip files. Personally I convert all the cbr files I get to cbz files as a matter of principle. <= OK, fair enough! I'll write a script to recompress all the .cbr files (maybe to cbz if there's a real advantage to this) so that the problem gets fixed
• OPDS: You don't like the web interface ? ;) The only application supporting streaming with OPDS is an Android one:Challenger Comics Viewer. That's because the OPDS standard is not made for streaming and we add to extend it. The good news is we wrote specifications for this (very small) extension. So every developper of a comics reading application is free to add streaming support with immediate compatibility with Ubooquity. <= As a matter of fact I do like your web interface! But I'm missing some (rather basic) functions that one can find in a 'normal' comic reader app such as double page view, and I also would like to get rid of all the browser stuff and just see the comic page(s) <= this is possible on a PC but haven't figured it out on an iPad (yet). Browsing through pages on an iPad / tablet is also not possible with swiping and closing the comic book is awkward... let's just say there is still a lot of room for improement on the Web i/f side! ;-)

Solved the problem of Chunky Comic Reader: you need to enter the complete URL => http://MyUserName:MyPassWord@MyIP:2202/opds-comics

However, there's no streaming service then... :-( <= only downloading

Hi Tom, KUDOS on your great initiative to bring streaming comic books to the rest of us! I've been looking for such an app for some time now and first tried ComicStreamer but this one is not (yet) available for my Synology NAS and seems to be lagging behind on your Ubooquity initiative...

I've managed to get the latest version (1.7.0) running on my Synology NAS thanks to the detailed instructions of Matthew Sanders. The link to the Synology installer packages (http://www.synologylab.webspace.virginmedia.com/files/) however does NOT seem to work anymore... I don't know if you can do something about this but I think a lot of Sysnology owners would really appreciate to have this link operational again.

I bumped into the same problem of not being able to read/stream .cbr format comics as described above! The funny things however are:

1. Sometimes the first page (=cover page) can be read, but the following not
2. The server however ALWAYS seems to be able to generate the Thumb <= so if it takes this from the .cbr I don't really get why it (sometimes) would not read the first page (=cover page) when in 'read' mode...

Anyway, extracting and re-RARing the complete .cbr directory seems to solve the problem... However, as I have many .cbr files that give me this problem I presume I'm not the only one and it would be great to have it solved from the code side. I would be happy to assist in any way I can (send you log files and/or .cbr files that can't be read...)

Oh, and something else: is there ANY iOS app that uses the OPDS feed (or any other API that you would have integrated into your server code) and hence does NOT use the Web i/f? It seems like Chunky Comic Reader holds the best cards but I can't seem to get connected to my server somehow... I must be doing something wrong. I enter the following as OPDS Server address: MyIP:2202/opds-comics (even tried MyUserName:MyPassWord@MyIP:2202/opds-comics) but that does not seem to work. Any advise here?

Thanks!

Greetz,

Bruno