Re: converting container formats

["ajaysusarla gmail com" <ajaysusarla gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence michael gene com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeenix gmail com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Michael Lawrence <lawremi gmail com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeenix gmail com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> HI Michael,
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Michael Lawrence
>>
>> >>  We are working on automatic and dynamic transcoding support: user
>> >> would be able to choose the DLNA profiles that she/he wants Rygel to
>> >> offer to clients from the configuration file (or commandline args).
>> >> The configuration file will provide enough docs in the comment so user
>> >> can easily choose profiles.
>> >>
>> >
>> > This sounds great. It also sounds a bit ambitious though, so how close
>> > is it
>> > to happening?
>>
>>   Actually its not as hard as it seems. GStreamer is getting some new
>> elements/APIs that will great help in achieving this. My estimate is
>> that this will take *at most* 3 months more.
>>
>> >> > As an aside, if Rygel gets an HTTP URL, from say a DBus provider, and
>> >> > that
>> >> > URL requires cookies to access, would there be any feasible way of
>> >> > giving
>> >> > those cookies to Rygel?
>> >>
>> >>  When transcoding is not involved and size of media is known, you
>> >> need to provide the cookie to client rather. Anyway, Rygel will use
>> >> either GIO or GStreamer's souphttpsrc for fetching HTTP content. In
>> >> case of former, I don't have any clue how to give it cookies but in
>> >> case of latter, there is 'cookies' property of souphttpsrc that could
>> >> be used for this I guess. Please file a bug regarding this and I'll
>> >> look into it at some point.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Sure. But I guess the major problem is how Rygel will be given the
>> > cookies.
>> > Would these be sent via DBus for sources based on the external plugin?
>>
>>   Thats not at all major since adding a new prop(s) to both DBus API
>> and internal plugin API is trivial. :)
>>
>> > I'll
>> > file a bug report and we can discuss it there.
>>
>>   Please do. Just keep in mind that you are the first one to ask for
>> this feature so don't be surprised if we don't prioritize this. If you
>> want this soon, you'll need to do it yourself. :)
>>

Hi Michael,

>
> I looked into it and yes it's fairly straight-forward. But it's not of much
> use until the transcoding is made easier. Is there any way I could help with
> that? or are you waiting for up-stream changes in GStreamer?
Firstly, Thank you very much for you offer for help, and is most welcome.

And yes, we are waiting for upstream changes in Gstreamer to happen,
to complete the transcoding work in rygel.

We are currently working on getting some gupnp-dlna changes in place
(on master) which will form the foundation for the transcoding
feature. (that should be in a day or two). So until then we would have
to wait.

Will let you know as soon as the changes in gupnp-dlna are pushed upstream.

Thanks,
..Partha
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>> FSF member#5124
>
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