Or we can incorporate other UPnP Linux software stacks that are open
source.  http://ushare.geexbox.org is one solution.

If you want to do something in Linux, chances are it has already been
done.  You just need to look a little.

Tobin


On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:53 -0700, Lopatin, Alexander L wrote:

> 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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