4 Rygel is a home media solution that allows you to easily share audio, video and
5 pictures, and control of media player on your home network. In technical terms
6 it is both a UPnP AV MediaServer and MediaRenderer implemented through a plug-in
7 mechanism. Interoperability with other devices in the market is achieved by
8 conformance to very strict requirements of DLNA and on the fly conversion of
9 media to format that client devices are capable of handling.
11 Important facts and features
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14 * Specifically designed for GNOME (Mobile) and is therefore planned to be one
15 of the key new features of GNOME 3.0 and Maemo platform in the Harmattan
18 * Written entirely in Vala language.
19 * APIs to ease the implementation of AV devices.
20 * Export of on-disk media:
22 * MediaExport plugin: Recursively exports folders and files specified in
23 the user configuration. This plugin supports all
24 types of URIs that gio/gvfs and gstreamer can handle.
25 * Export of online media from 2nd German TV station.
26 * Export of media hierarchies provided by external applications through
27 implementation of D-Bus MediaServer spec. Applications that utilize
31 * Export of GStreamer pipelines as media items on the network, specified
32 through gst-launch syntax in the user configuration.
33 * Audio and Video Transcoding: source format could be anything GStreamer's
34 decodebin2 can handle but output formats are currently limited to: mp3, PCM
35 and MPEG TS. Fortunately the transcoding framework is flexible enough to
36 easily add more transcoding targets.
37 * Standalone MediaRenderer plugin based on GStreamer playbin2 element.
38 * Export of media players that implement MPRIS2 D-Bus interface, as
39 MediaRenderer devices. Known implementing applications are:
52 * gio (part of glib source package)
56 * vala (not if building from release tarballs)
65 * Might be needed (depending on your usage and media collection):
71 To build without gstreamer, use:
72 --with-media-engine=simple
73 This will also disable any plugins that use gstreamer.
80 * http://maemo.org/intro/platform
81 * http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Harmattan
82 * http://www.gupnp.org
83 * http://www.vala-project.org
84 * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_server
85 * http://www.upnp.org/specs/av/UPnP-av-MediaServer-v2-Device-20060531.pdf
86 * http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker
87 * http://live.gnome.org/DVBDaemon
89 * http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServer2Spec
90 * http://www.mpris.org/2.0/spec/