The adventures of Foo » rygel http://jensge.org My aggregated random tech blabber Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:24:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Rygel on Ubuntu 12.04 service announcement http://jensge.org/2012/04/rygel-on-ubuntu-12-04-service-announcement/ http://jensge.org/2012/04/rygel-on-ubuntu-12-04-service-announcement/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:24:44 +0000 Jens http://jensge.org/?p=662 Continue reading →]]> If you just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 and your PS3 or Sony TV stopped showing videos, the work-around is to uninstall gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse. See bug 672439 for the details.

The bright side is that for the first time ever, we have a recent Ubuntu shipping the latest version of Rygel.

]]> http://jensge.org/2012/04/rygel-on-ubuntu-12-04-service-announcement/feed/ 1 New TweakUp http://jensge.org/2012/03/new-tweakup/ http://jensge.org/2012/03/new-tweakup/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:12:24 +0000 Jens http://jensge.org/?p=612 Continue reading →]]> Today I pushed a new version of TweakUp to the Nokia store, fixing a small cosmetic bug and including the translations that have been added on Transifex so far. Thanks to everyone who contributed a translation. Again, for the impatient, the new version is here, alongside with the signature.

]]> http://jensge.org/2012/03/new-tweakup/feed/ 3 Call for translation http://jensge.org/2012/03/call-for-translation/ http://jensge.org/2012/03/call-for-translation/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:01:49 +0000 Jens http://jensge.org/?p=608 Continue reading →]]> Currently TweakUp only speaks English. I’ve modified the source and setup a Transifex instance to change that in a future release. Since the only two languages I can express myself in without sounding too stupid are English and German, my translation skills are a bit limited. So if anyone is interested in contributing a translation, feel free.

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]]> http://jensge.org/2012/03/call-for-translation/feed/ 2 TweakUp your media sharing experience http://jensge.org/2012/03/tweakup-your-media-sharing-experience/ http://jensge.org/2012/03/tweakup-your-media-sharing-experience/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:44:19 +0000 Jens http://jensge.org/?p=600 Continue reading →]]> ScreenshotAs I mentioned on several places already, due to the aim of getting the N9 DLNA-certified we had to introduce some restrictions. One of the most annoying limitation from an end user point of view is that you can’t share arbitrary videos or music which you may have put on your device. Another, though minor, issue is that it’s not possible to change the name shown in UPnP or DLNA clients on the network.

While it is possible to change all this by editing the configuration file, it is somewhat inconvenient to do this on the device. That’s why I’ve written a small application called TweakUp which allows all these settings (and a few more, see the screenshot) to be changed more comfortably. It is available in the Nokia Store and on this website. It has been signed with my public key 6BA1DF74.

Its source code is available at https://gitorious.org/helium/tweakup

]]> http://jensge.org/2012/03/tweakup-your-media-sharing-experience/feed/ 7 DLNA certified http://jensge.org/2012/03/dlna-certified/ http://jensge.org/2012/03/dlna-certified/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:15:04 +0000 Jens http://jensge.org/?p=597 Continue reading →]]> Today we have reached step two of what we aimed for when using Rygel on the N9. This morning I got notified that it has been certified by DLNA as a M-DMS device. After a very long struggle (more than two years) with the sometimes nearly insane requirements DLNA imposes on a project, the weird tooling and the testing process, after all the effort that multiple people have thrown into this goal, by the end of last month, it looked like we were not going to make it. The reasons were very, very stupid and didn’t have to do anything at all with Rygel. Getting the news today was a great relief, a huge reward and a very fitting finish for working on this project.

A big thank you to Zeeshan and all the other people involved in making this happen.

]]> http://jensge.org/2012/03/dlna-certified/feed/ 5 Once again in Rygel land http://jensge.org/2012/03/once-again-in-rygel-land/ http://jensge.org/2012/03/once-again-in-rygel-land/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:18:40 +0000 Jens http://jensge.org/?p=588 Our new LogoThanks to Chris we got ourselves a new logo and a new icon, making your favourite media server look even better in your player. It is already on master and will be used in the next stable release.

 

]]> http://jensge.org/2012/03/once-again-in-rygel-land/feed/ 0 Introducing Helium http://jensge.org/2012/03/introducing-helium/ http://jensge.org/2012/03/introducing-helium/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:18:10 +0000 Jens http://jensge.org/?p=573 Continue reading →]]> What’s Helium?

Helium is a UPnP control point that is supposed to accompany Rygel, but can of course work without it. It offers browsing of media servers, selecting a renderer from a list of devices available on the network and can (currently) play back a single media files from the current server listing to the currently selected renderer (by long-push). This is supposed to change in short-term, giving proper playlist and player controls. Also it needs to get aware of servers and renderers disappearing from the network and get some proper error reporting.

Where’s the code?

Current state is available at Gitorious

Screenshots

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A short hint if you’re eager to try it and you don’t see any files shared: For complicated and mostly non-technical reasons the device needs to assign so-called DLNA media profiles to images and media files. To start this, the device needs to go into idle mode once, so just let it rest for a while and all media created on the device should be available after that. This is a one-shot thing after the update, any files added afterwards will be fine.

]]> http://jensge.org/2012/02/rygel-in-the-wild/feed/ 0 Rygel needs a hand … http://jensge.org/2012/02/rygel-needs-a-hand/ http://jensge.org/2012/02/rygel-needs-a-hand/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:51:22 +0000 Jens http://jensge.org/?p=562 Does any of my readers own or have access to a Samsung UE32B7070WW television and would be willing to help to debug a kind of weird browsing issue we’re seeing with this TV? Thanks.

]]> http://jensge.org/2012/02/rygel-needs-a-hand/feed/ 4 FOSDEM 2012 Talk http://jensge.org/2012/02/fosdem-2012-talk/ http://jensge.org/2012/02/fosdem-2012-talk/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:12:20 +0000 Jens http://jensge.org/?p=549 Here are my slides to the short talk I did today about Rygel here at FOSDEM.

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