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Comment on Lately, in Rygel land… by timo

timo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:18:03 +0000

ok, too bad.. not that useful for me then :/ Controlling the media from the receiver is a big PITA, and was hoping this would allow a more Airplay-like functionality. The music player on the N9 is rather nice

Comment on Lately, in Rygel land… by Jens

Jens — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:19:03 +0000

No. The only thing implemented by Rygel is sharing the media content on the device (like the NAS). The other use-cases were planned but not implemented by our team and I’ve no idea what happened to them.

I know that DLNA spec allows this but those are different types of “devices”. Your first example would be a so-called push controller and the second use-case a control point.

Comment on Lately, in Rygel land… by timo

timo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:08:06 +0000

So, does it allow using the media player on the phone to stream the music to my DLNA-capable Marantz receiver? Or browsing the media content on the NAS (running twonkymedia) and direct the receiver to play stuff directly from there? If I’ve understood things correctly, the DLNA-spec should allow this (and Rygel too?)

Comment on Rygel & pulseaudio by Karol Trojanowski

Karol Trojanowski — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:07:36 +0000

I’m going to leave this here for others, since this is one of the top results and I myself spent days on this until I finally found a solution. You CAN transcode with gst-launch, you just need to get your devices straight. See my answer on AskUbuntu: http://askubuntu.com/questions/83611/how-to-use-android-2-1-phone-as-remote-audio-receiver/99892#99892

Comment on Slides from DLNA talk by Jens

Jens — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:15:09 +0000

Interesting to know the Google translation thing, thanks.

About Rygel: There’s no direct need to switch to GNOME, its dependencies related to GNOME are quite minimal. Basically only GLib and GTK+ if you want to use the preference UI. GStreamer and libxml2 should be available on KDE as well.

I admit that our documentation is a bit lacking. Rygel itself can act as a DMS by either using Tracker as its meta-data store or doing the work itself. There’s also some special back-ends that translate GStreamer command lines to a DMS etc.

It can also act as a renderer, though not exactly as a fully compliant DMP. It works quite well but it’s nowhere near any certifiable state. We’re working to improve this currently.

Rygel itself doesn’t add anything to any program, but we’ve also plug-ins that enable arbitrary programs to be renderer or server, and yes, one of them is Rhythmbox. A renderer can be everything that implements the MPRIS2 DBus specification, for example Totem, Rhythmbox, Banshee, perhaps VLC now etc. Known server implementations are Grilo (though admittedly a bit broken currently), PulseAudio or Rhythmbox.

If you try the Fedora live CD, please note that there’s a bug in Rygel < 0.12.7 that prevents the server connector to work properly (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759206)

Comment on Slides from DLNA talk by skierpage

skierpage — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:33:39 +0000

FYI, Google Translate does a reasonable job with your slide text (and no PDF viewer required). It loses the diagrams like slide #9, #29, #53, and Google asks “Contribute a better translation” for Datenmultiplizierung, Gräteeinteilung, geshared, Streamingmodi, etc.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjensge.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F01%2FDLNA.pdf

I tried the DLNA app “iMediaShare Lite” on my Android phone to send media to and from my Playstation 3, and it was clunky and froze the PS3… I guess iMS skipped the interoperability testing parties.

Rygel might be a reason for me to switch to Gnome 3 from Kubuntu, but after describing some great use cases https://live.gnome.org/Rygel doesn’t explain how you make it go. Is it all gstreamer command lines or does it add menu items to Rhythmbox to “Act as a DLNA DMS” or “Play as DMP over DLNA”? Some day I’ll make another Fedora live USB and try it out.

Comment on Rygel & pulseaudio by Jens

Jens — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:32:43 +0000

That would be related to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650166 (for MediaExport back-end) or the outcome of https://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2011-August/msg00016.html (for Tracker back-end)

Comment on Rygel & pulseaudio by Alex Samorukov

Alex Samorukov — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:59:07 +0000

Thank you very much for the rygel software, i am using it with my philips home audio. I have an idea (or feature request?) about .flac files. Most of the .flac collections are CD digitized to one flac file + CUE list. Many players aware of cue and are generating playlist using it. Is it possible to export flac + cue as many “files” and not only one? Is it hard to implement with the plugin?

Comment on Debunking Rygel myths by Jens

Jens — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:35:59 +0000

No, that’s not the right place. Please file a bug on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Rygel, including a wireshark trace from both a successful connection to ushare and an unsuccessful from rygel; also mention the version of rygel, gupnp and gssdp you use.

Thanks.

Comment on Debunking Rygel myths by david

david — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:19:50 +0000

rygel doesn’t show up on my roku soundbridge. ushare does. maybe this is because of the name rygel publishes? i cannot seem to change this?

maybe you can shed some light?

thanks.

btw. i know this is probably not the right place to ask this…