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Part of GNOME 3.0

The decision for inclusion of modules into GNOME (3.0) just came-in and proposal for Rygel was approved. \o/ Now I better get it working. :)

Married

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So last saturday I got married to this amazing woman I've been in love with for the last 3 years of my life. Except for the start of the wedding (when I was extremely nervous) I enjoyed the whole event a lot. That includes the bachelor's party that my awesome friends threw me 2 days before the wedding. Here are some pictures worth sharing, the first one being from Bachelor's party, as you can guess: Although many people helped in different ways, three people that deserve the most appreciation are Timo (my best man) who arranged the Bachelor's party, Anna Haukka who was the main official photographer and Tiina Taxell (Bride's maid). Also special Thanks to Edward to arrange some important things before the wedding and Christian (also my best man) for bringing Edward so early in the morning and the rings. :) One of the weird things about my wedding was that it brought many hackers from all around Europe to Helsinki for a few days. :)

Rygel 0.6.0 (The Way We Weren't) is out!

Rygel 0.6.0 (The Way We Weren't) is out! This release marks the start of the new stable release-cycle. Changes since 0.5.2: - Localization: - Fix translation framework. - Mark all (possibly) user-visible string for translation. - Use more translator-friendly language. - Provide comments for translators. - Correctly case abbreviations. - Translations: - German (de) 100% - Slovenian (sl): 100% - Spanish (es): 57% - Fix time-seeking. - Fix a potential race-condition in aborted HTTP requests. - Don't stream if request is for subtitles. - Use bigger (64Ki) buffers when streaming from gstreamer source element. - Remux only if transcoding is not needed. - Configuration option for specifying plugin load path. - Add configuration from Environment. - Fix port specification through commandline. - Add and expose Rygel logo. - Pause streaming pipeline when/if client isn't reading fast enough. - Add more unit tests. - Use gnome-autogen.sh. - Add missing libuui

Rygel logo v2

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So based on comments received on the Rygel logo in the last blog entry , Klaus did some adjustments and came-up with even more improved version: 256x256: 32x32:

Future of Rygel

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While you can follow the progress of Rygel through the release announcements on my blog, mailing-lists and even git log, I feel that I am not providing enough information about the future plans. Also there are some things that are not (or so far have not been) in a shape to be part of a release so here is some of what is coming: Logo I've been looking for an artist to make me a nice logo ever since the start of the project. A few artists gave it a try but they didn't succeed in creating anything worth showing to anyone. I couldn't possibly blame them since: Its not very clear to everyone what Rygel is and I suck at explaining things. Its hard to represent it even when you learn what it is. So what happened was that I told Sebastian that I was so jealous of his new logo , he asked Klaus to attempt to do the same for Rygel. He did and after a bit of talking and him trying different ideas, we finally agreed on this: 64x64: 32x32: 16x16: Some people like it, s

Rygel 0.5.2 released!

Rygel 0.5.2 (Crackers Don't Matter) is out! Another release in the unstable 0.5.x series. Changes since 0.5.0: - Add support for Xbox 360 and Window Media Player 11. - Add support for subtitles. Currently only useful for certain Samsung DLNA TVs. - Add Windows Media Video (WMV) transcoder. - Add unit tests for a few modules. - Fix some (potential) crashes. - Make database operations cancellable. - Throw error on database creation failure. - Simpler (hopefully) build rules. - Fix race-condition in streaming code so we don't terminate the connection before all the bytes are sent to the client. - Fix leaking of HTTP messages of live streams on termination. - Fix 'Content-Length' header values for partial requests. - Fix parsing of search expression containing characters not within the original latin1 range. - Use bigger (64Ki) buffers when streaming media to reduce cpu usage and therefore improve battery life. - Include spec version in description document. - Remo

GSSDP 0.7.2, GUPnP 0.13.3, GUPnP AV 0.5.5 & GUPnP Vala 0.6.5

GSSDP 0.7.2 released! Changes since 0.7.1: - Provide gobject-introspection GIR and typelib. - Use silent build rules. - Fix issues with version-independence magic in SSDP code. - Fix build issues in jhbuild environment. Bugs fixed in this release: 2025 - autogen.sh fails to find autoconf macros when they're installed in a non-standard location 1927 - gssdp fails to answer M-SEARCH sometimes 1921 - GObject Introspection Makefile for GSSDP All Contributors: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Zach Goldberg Jens Georg Neil Roberts Ross Burton Download source tarball from here GUPnP 0.13.3 released! Changes since 0.13.2: - Include the Content-Type header in the HTTP messages. This satisfies DLNA CTT test cases 7.2.5.9 and 7.2.29.1. - Use g_message instead of g_warning if we can't connect to DBus. - Make the HTTP server listen on the context's interface only. - Fix some potential crashes in GUPnPServiceProxy and GUPnPContextManager code. - Fix build issues in jhbuil