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101 secret Rygel tips

With the release of Rygel 0.7.3 I thought I should bring up some sort of FAQ for Rygel and especially the MediaExport plugin, since it has some features and behavior changes that might lead to confusion for long-time (and new) users:

Plugin concurrency

With the release of 0.7.4 you cannot enable both tracker and MediaExport plugins at once. [...]

State of the GUPnP stack on Windows and other scary tales

I updated the windows ports of gssdp and gupnp today, did some further clean-up on the gupnp port and filed merge-requests for both on gitorious.

I also deleted the gupnp-win32 repository on github. New development will go to this repository on gitorious. There is still the gssdp-win32 repository on github since I have not yet taken care [...]

Trekstor Vibez and Jaunty^WLucid

So – A year has passed, two Ubuntu versions, what’s the state of MTP vs. mass storage? Apparently still broken. Same same but different.

Instead of making the player crash, gphoto2/libmtp and usb mass storage fight for the right to access the device which leads to very ugly errors in dmesg that look like the device or [...]

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Simple web-radio sharing with rygel, part due

If you try the receipe shown here with a RTSP source, you might need to throw in an additional input-selector element in [...]

Mr. Fusion

That was easier than I expected. After a bit of googling and hand-crafting libtool archives, Rygel’s plugins now work on Windows as well. Now I just need to clean-up all [...]

1.21 Gigawatts

The beast is alive… Well. Sort of. Plugins still missing…

$ ./rygel.exe -g 5
** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to load user configuration: Es wurde keine g³ltige Schl³sselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden
** (rygel.exe:8080): DEBUG: new network context {C457B4A8-2516-46B9-837A-F5167D574A2E} (192.168.200.64) available.

** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to create context for host/IP ‘{C57C8A03-20D6-4A0F-8C5D-946804401865}’: Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet.

** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: [...]

Xbox support landed in rygel master

Support for the Xbox 360 has landed in master. You need:

gupnp master0.13.3
gunp-av master0.5.5
gupnp-vala master0.6.5
rygel master

For the transcoding to work properly make sure you have gst-lame and gst-ffmpeg installed.

On a side note: Rygel master has now gained the ability to serve subtitles to Samsung DLNA [...]

Rygel’s XBox support

Status update: We’re nearly there. Out-of-the box support of XBox 360; no patches, no database [...]

Rygel XBox support update

XBox support still has not landed in rygel master, though the branch gets more stable currently. I put together a wiki page to describe the necessary quirks together with a [...]