Re: DLNA for recording

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeenix gmail com>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Johannes Niess
<email johannes-niess de> wrote:
>> 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.

  If you want to avoid XML, you really want to stay as much away from
UPnP and DLNA as possible. :)

> Are there any real
> world implementations of the  standard? Would any control point work with it
> or is support for it optional?

  Don't know of any but the spec is still relatively new.

>> > 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".

   Didn't you just say that you want to build on top of something not XML?

>> > 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...

  If that makes you feel good about it, we are happy for you. :)

>> 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.

   One can always increase your knowledge according to the needs. It
usually pays much better in the long run than using the wrong tools
for the job only because you know them better.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124