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XBox 360 support of rygel

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. [...]

any to WMV

While trying to vamp up XBox 360 support for rygel, I also need a transcoder suitable for the XBox. While H.264 would work it is CPU consuming and hard to get right for the XBox, because it is quite picky. So I decided to go for WMV1/WMA2. Prototype gst-launch commandline:

gst-launch filesrc location=input_file ! decodebin2 name=decoder [...]

Rygel 0.4.6 released

Rygel 0.4.6 has been released. This is a big step forward to the XBox 360 support as it finally implements search! See the original announcement at Zeenix’ Blog

Rygel 0.4.1 is out

Due to some last-minute bugs rygel 0.4.1 has been released.

It is also available in debian unstable now

Rygel 0.4 release

Rygel 0.4 (Fascinating!) has been released yesterday, so grab it while it’s hot.

Is that all, bob?

No, it isn’t. You don’t only get the mingw version of gupnp, there will be a shiny version compatible with MSVC! Lo and behold, the unavoidable screenshot

The new automake meme

Apparently a small meme has spread in the gnome community, the non-recursive automake meme.

Well, rewriting the makefiles for rygel to use the new Vala support in automake-1.11 I also converted it to be non-recursive.

This is what I got:

Parallel builds working (but this seems to be more the work of the Vala support)
Cleaner Makefiles, [...]

GUPnP on windows howto

I threw together some instructions on how to build the GUPnP stack on windows:

gupnp on win32

Small demo showing the effort of porting GUPnP on windows:

WPFP(document).ready(function() {
//load player
$f(“saiweb_d8ac4fe88043b1bde62c660dc46771a9″, “http://jensge.org/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf”, {
plugins: {
controls: {
buttonOverColor: ”,
sliderColor: ”,
bufferColor: ”,
sliderGradient: ‘none’,
[...]

Hacking UPnP

While being at FOSDEM I attended a talk about rygel, an UPnP MediaServer written for Gnome using Vala. Writing plugins seemed dead-easy, and in fact it is So I came up with two plugins:

One exposing all media files in a folder via UPnP
One providing easy access to the ZDF Mediathek

While the second one [...]

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