Re: DLNA for recording

[Johannes Niess <email johannes-niess de>]

> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 21:28 +0100, Johannes Niess wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > DLNA 1.x isn't made for that and I couldn't get much info about DLNA
> > version 2 which should include recording in some form. My vision for a
> > modular home theater PC software is based on a variety of DLNA servers /
> > renderers etc.
> 
> > Basically I'm thinking of this:
> No, but UPnP has (from MediaServer:2, there's v2 from MediaServer:3 as
> well, but rygel currently targets :2)
> 
> http://upnp.org/specs/av/UPnP-av-ScheduledRecording-v1-Service.pdf
> 
> There's a long-standing TODO item to implement that in conjunction with
> gnome-dvb-daemon.
> 

Thank you for providing the document. Based on that, I made the informed 
decision not to implement this standard. I'm trying to avoid XML wrangling and 
to concetrate on something a lot more programmer friendly. Are there any real 
world implementations of the  standard? Would any control point work with it 
or is support for it optional?

> > XMLTV data is chopped into one file per show and linked into directories
> > by date, station, etc. Using a custom profile the info is published by a
> > DLNA server or uploader "XMLTV".
> > 
> > Any standard control point is used to select shows for recording by
> > "playing" these files. In my case this will be a smart phone via WLAN.
> > 
> > A renderer "Recorder" extracts the meta data and performs the necessary
> > magic like command line generation for recording.
> 
> That feels hackish.

I'd call it 'creative use' of the standard...

> 
> > The output file is now published by a standard server and is ready for
> > consumption.
> > 
> > An "Ad remover" renderer could be added later.
> > 
> > Any standard control point is used to select shows for playing.
> > 
> > A renderer "mplayer" is used for software output.
> 
> I don't get that part.
> 
> > As I understand it, rygel is a platform for the required plugins.
> > Especially the "external" and "gst-launch" plugins might be useful. I
> > could not find any usage examples. Source code for a renderer that gets
> > data feed on standard
> 
> Usage examples for what? "external" is a DBus consumer, you have to
> implement a DBus spec, http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServer2Spec to
> interface with this plugin. Knowm implementors currently are
> gnome-dvb-daemon & grilo-rygel.
> 
> For gst-launch examples are in the default configuration file.
> 
> I don't get the part with the shell script.
> 
> > input to a shell script would help me a lot. Given my very limited
> > knowledge of C and vala, I have difficulties understanding the code and
> > documentation.
> 
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