Re: Media Sharing Feature extension proposal: "Play To"

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Mi, 2011-05-25 at 11:30 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:

Hi, sorry, was busy lately, took a bit to get back on this.

> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 07:55 +0200, Jens Georg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What I would like to propose is something in the lines of less open DLNA
> > sharing. This is a feature on top of Rygel.
> > 
> > It would be similar to the "Play to" feature of Windows 7, where you can
> > right-click on a file and "send" it to UPnP-capable media renderer.
> > (Thinking of a nautilus send-to plugin here)
> > 
> > Why is it less open? It doesn't require you to have your server
> > announced publicly or enable any of the UPnP sharing. All you need is a
> > HTTP server. Rygel has a mode which already supports this out-of-the box
> > (transcoding and all), see https://live.gnome.org/Rygel/StreamingOnly
> 
> The functionality is interesting, and I would think that integrating it
> in nautilus-sendto would probably be a good idea, but nautilus-sendto is
> still in flux (we're waiting for libsocialweb configuration to be
> possible in UI before finishing it), and I would really like the
> functionality to be designed, or at the very least researched, and
> compared to other OSes, and similar functionality in other desktop
> environments.
> 
> You can do all this in the Design whiteboard area of the wiki, before
> asking the design folks for help.

I find that whole process a bit confusing - Do I just hook up a page
here?

https://live.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards

Also there's no sharing there, the only sharing thing is
https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/Sharing which I would
consider this proposal a sub-feature of.