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 > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev -- Tobin Davis Don't over-comment. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
