Re: Using Rygel just with MPRIS plugin?

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

Hi,

I think there is a bug open for this, but you can use the environment
variable RYGEL_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT=0 which was originally used for valgrind

> Hi,
>
> I'm tying to use Rygel just to give Rhythmbox the ability to act as
> upnp media renderer. I don't want to use rygel's ability to provide a
> media server, playbin-plugin etc.
> So I only enabled the MPRIS plugin in rygel.conf (and set upnp-
> enabled=true in the [general] section). I disabled all other features
> in the config file.
>
> If Rhythmbox (or any other application providing the MPRIS interface)
> is already running when I start rygel everything works fine. 
> If Rhythmbox  is not running (which is the normal case if Rhytmbox is
> started by gnome on the user login), Rygel quits with the following
> message:
>
> (rygel:11118): Rygel-WARNING **: No plugins found in 5 seconds;
> giving
> up?
>
>
> Is there any way to convince Rygel, that it is correct that it finds
> "nothing to do" and just keeps running?
>
>
> (I'm using Rygel 0.28.3 that ships with Ubuntu (Gnome) 16.04)