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. [...]
If you try the receipe shown here with a RTSP source, you might need to throw in an additional input-selector element in [...]
One easy method to share any web radio via UPnP on your network is to use the gst-launch plugin. This is a simple rygel.conf snippet to expose NDR Info to your DLNA enabled devices. For other services I’d first try to replace the uri and the content-type accordingly.
[GstLaunch]
enabled=true
launch_items=ndrinfo
ndrinfo_title=NDR [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Status update: We’re nearly there. Out-of-the box support of XBox 360; no patches, no database [...]
Short update on the XBox360 support of rygel:
What works
Streaming of transcoded audio and video to the XBox
Browsing through your music collection by album or artist works at least for the media-export plugin. General audio playback should work for every plugin (Using Music library -> Songs)
What doesn’t work:
Seeking in transcoded media. This includes stopping and resuming. Pause-resume [...]