Re: [gupnp] DLNA profile detection & automatic transcoding

[Sven Neumann <s neumann raumfeld com>]

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 13:48 +0300, Zeeshan Ali wrote:
> Hi Sven, 
> 
> ----- Original message ----- 
> > Does this mean that gupnp-av will get a dependency on GStreamer? 
>
> > 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? 

If it was just a dependency, that would be a minor problem. But I am
afraid that this means that GStreamer is going to need access to all the
media files for the media-server to work. This would be difficult and it
has the potential to cause a significant performance degrade, which
would be unacceptable for us. We can't afford to actually access the
media file each time that meta-data about the file is being requested by
a control-point.

> > 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. 

Well, if you could send your patches for review, that would make it
easier for me to suggest changes.


Sven