Hi Sven,
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> Does this mean that gupnp-av will get a dependency on GStreamer?
Yes.
> That
> would be very unfortunate. Serving media should not depend on a media
> decoding/playback framework.
GStreamer is a generic multimedia framework, albeit decoding/playback is the main usecases. Also metadata harvesting (including dlna profile detection) does involve 'decoding' no matter which framework you use.
> We don't even have GStreamer installed on
> the device that hosts our media server.
GStreamer core isn't big at all so you might want to consider installing it now? Perhaps at the same time as you upgrade gupnp-av?
> Can't we just add the necessary APIs to gupnp-av that allows to hook in
> custom DLNA profile detection?
We certainly could & any ideas in that regard are welcome. Having said that, keep in mind that we won't have time to implement your ideas anytime soon (lots of things to do & many deadlines coming) & gstreamer dependency isn't an issue for us.
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Regards Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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