Yes, upnp/dnla is not metadata tagging infrastructure, but a little bit more 
than that. Media Servers are required to parse videos, music and pictures 
metadata and provide this information to Media Clients.

From http://www.dlna.org/industry/why_dlna/key_components/media_mgmt/
        ... ...
        UPnP AV specifications define the following four services hosted by     
Media Servers and Media Renderers.

        * Content Directory Service: This enumerates the available content      
(e.g., videos, music and pictures). 
        ... ...

From http://www.last100.com/2008/05/27/dlna-certified/
        ... ...
        A number of Nokia’s N Series devices including its flagship N95 cell    
phone and N800 Internet tablet can act as a UPnP AV server (see this    guide). 
Just imagine taking a photo or video on your mobile phone and   instantly 
viewing it on the television via a PlayStation 3!
        ... ...

Well, we always can buy Nokia if we want UPnP :-)

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Lynch, Rusty 
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 17:02
To: Lopatin, Alexander L
Cc: Jimmy Huang; dev
Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Content Tagging/Searching on Moblin

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:43 -0700, Lopatin, Alexander L wrote:
> Yes, it is overhead for development (or developers). But it is an extra
> bonus for the user when he buys a new MID and suddenly realizes at his
> friend's house that their old PlayStation 3 connected to old HDTV (or
> may be just only new HDTV with Intel Atom running Linux with DLMA media
> server) can play his new MID's video/photos/music
> wirelessly/effortlessly :-)

I agree upnp/dnla is cool and all... but that's now what this thread is
talking about.

A core capability for the new stack is having an extensive metadata
tagging backend that will be used by all applications.  We have a few
possible options here, but it's looking more and more like Meta Tracker
is the best horse to bet on for this race.  (Tracker doesn't provide
exactly what we need, but I haven't seen anything that makes me feel
that it couldn't evolve into what we think we want.)

Upnp/dnla is a lot of things, but it's not a metadata tagging
infrastructure.

    --rusty
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