Re: mediaexport: rygel shares are mess when viewed from a 2013 panasonic viera

[Julian Sikorski <belegdol gmail com>]

W dniu 09.01.2014 19:13, Julian Sikorski pisze:
> W dniu 09.01.2014 19:04, Julian Sikorski pisze:
> > W dniu 07.01.2014 10:43, Jussi Kukkonen pisze:
> > > On 3 January 2014 20:06, Julian Sikorski <belegdol gmail com> wrote:
> > > > Both issues (sorting and duplicates) are gone when browsing from
> > > > gupnp-av-cp. I guess Panasonic did not do a very good job when writing
> > > > their upnp client. Is there anything else I could do to improve the
> > > > experience?
> > >
> > > Is the directory structure you see on the Panasonic exactly what rygel
> > > provides (and what gupnp-av-cp shows)? It's possible that the
> > > Panasonic is not actually browsing the directory tree, but doing
> > > searches (e.g. searching for images from 2013) and creating its own
> > > structure to show in the UI. If you run rygel with debug messages, we
> > > can see if that's happening: A search would print out "Executing
> > > search request" among lots of other things while just browsing would
> > > not.
> > >
> > > If it's doing searches, then the bugs could still be in rygel side --
> > > Searches are more complex than just browsing. We'd probably need a
> > > wireshark log to figure out who to blame.
> > >
> > > Also if it is doing searches, you could set rygel to only publish the
> > > plain directory tree as a work-around: With MediaExport, setting
> > > "virtual-folders=false" in the config file should do that.
> > >
> > > Jussi
> > Hi,
> >
> > looks like you were right. There is lots of "Parsed search expression"
> > in the log (attached).
> > I have done the following:
> > - started rygel
> > - opened the server from tv
> > - browsed to pictures/year
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Julian
> To add more information: setting virtual-folders to false makes the
> Pictures, Videos and Music folders disappear, the Files and Folders can
> still be seen. That one has always worked without duplicates, but the
> Panasonic is stupid enough that it does not sort them alphabetically.
> All of this is happening with rygel-0.20.3.
>
> Best regards,
> Julian
Hello again,

looking at the rygel source, there seem to be client-specific hacks
available. Would it be possible to add some to improve the viera client
experience? What is the policy?

Best regards,
Julian