Coder's Log

Rygel 0.4 (Fascinating!) is out! As usual, the release announcement: Brief summary of changes since 0.3: - Rygel is no more just a MediaServer but rather a collection of DLNA (UPnP AV) services (devices in UPnP speak). - Port to new GUPnP APIs. The biggest advantage of that is that we now have dynamic network support, i-e Rygel can attach/detach to/from a network interface as it goes up/down. - Support for time-based seeking in transcoded streams. - Random tweaks to transcoding pipelines. - Provide a DBus service providing two functionalities: * Ability to tell Rygel to shutdown. Starting of Rygel is automatically handled by D-Bus since a .service file is provided by Rygel. * Ability to tell Rygel (MediaExport plugin actually) to (un)export URIs on the fly. - Implement enabling/disabling of UPnP in the preferences. - Configuration through command-line options. - Use a .ini configuration file rather than gconf. - Special default configuration for Maemo. - Don

One of the excuses I had to not implement DVB-Daemon integration in Rygel was that I didn't have the needed hardware to do so. Some days ago, I decided to get rid of this excuse by buying myself a Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T stick. After a few days of trying different things, fiddling around and filing ivalid bugs , I finally manged to get it working with both DVB Daemon and Totem . Here is some advice based on my experience so far: If you happen to have the same DVB card as I do, make sure you have the recent enough (>= 2.6.25) Linux kernel that provides the needed driver (dib0700) out of the box. Get yourself the latest firmware from here and place it under /lib/firmware. The driver still looks for it by it's old filename so make a symlink in the same directory to this file by the name "dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw". Unless you know exactly what kind of channels file needs to be created, DO NOT use w_scan for creating a channels file. Use gnome-dvb-setup.py (part of DVB