news 28 Posted May 31, 2009 Rygel 0.3 (Berlin is cool if it doesn't rain) is out Brief summary of changes since 0.2.2: - Transcoding from any format (that gstreamer's decodebin2 can handle) to mp3, linear PCM and mpeg transport stream containing mpeg 2 video and mp2 audio. - Plugin API to deal with user preferences. - User preferences UI: rygel-preferences. - New plugins: * Folder: Recursively exports folders specified in the user preferences. * ZDFMediathek: Exports online media from 2nd German TV station. * External: Exports media hierarchies provided by external applications through implementation of this spec: http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServer. The first application that utilizes this feature is PulseAudio. - Drop xbox support. It didn't work anyway and we better concentrate on implementing standard stuff that it at least worthy of being called "UPnP" ( at least for now). - Tracker and DVB plugins are only loaded if their corresponding services are available. - Export of duration for music and video items from Tracker. - Use HTTP EOF encoding rather the CHUNKED for live streams. - Ability to build rygel plugins outside it's source tree. - HTTP proxying only if needed. - Now that gupnp-av does DLNA profile guessing for us, no need to lie about DLNA profile anymore. - Add a summary after configure. - HTTServer is now internal API. - Use git-version-gen to generate package version. - Differentiate between modules and plugins - Passive, asynchronous plugin loading. A side-effect of which is that modules can now load more than one plugin. - Differentiate between name and title of the plugin. - Plugins can now dynamically change their availability. - Add API to get/list plugins. - Re-use existing description from user's home directory. This not only speeds the start-up but also obsoletes the necessity to keep immutable data (e.g UDN) in user preferences. - Provide gconf schemas. - Lots of other improvements and bug fixes. Dependency-related changes: - Explicitly require and link to libsoup-2.4 >= 2.26.0. - Don't require Vala (and bindings) in distribution tarball. - Require gupnp-av >= 0.4. - Require Vala >= 0.7.3. - Require Gtk+ >= 2.16 if preferences UI is not disabled. Bugs fixed in this release: 582173 - git-version-gen: generate versions with - instead of . 577000 - gupnp-av-cp does not like & in uris 576998 - Rygel wants to transcode audio files to video/mpeg 575935 - Add support for duration metadata field 574604 – bug connecting to PS3 All contributors to this release: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Jens Georg Henrique Ferreiro Lennart Poettering Marc-André Lureau Rob Taylor Download source tarball at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rygel/0.3/ What is Rygel? Rygel is an implementation of the UPnP MediaServer V 2.0 specification that is specifically designed for GNOME (Mobile). It is based on GUPnP[1] and is written (mostly) in Vala[2] language. More info at: http://live.gnome.org/Rygel -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] http://www.gupnp.org/ [2] http://www.vala-project.org/ _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
