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Zachary Goldberg reports : As I've been mentioning lately I have been working on using PyGObject + GObject Introspection (recently forked, now called PyGI + PyGObject + Gobject Introspection) and have some exciting news! I have been working on fleshing out a whole bunch of unit tests which exercise the entire GUPnP API. I hate a major roadblock in that PyGI did not support native callbacks! So, after a week or two detour I have implemented PyGI callbacks (which now work rather nicely, but need a bunch of stylistic cleanups and error checking before its pushed back upstream.. priorities!) as well as some working GUPnP demos. My best demo so far is about 25 lines of python which: 1) Gets all devices on one network interface 2) Scans for all the services each device provides 3) If the device is GMediaRenderer and it provides an AVTransport Service (it does...) then it 3a) Stops whatever is currently playing 3b) Loads a new URI (hardcoded from my mediatomb server for now, h...

For those interested in UPnP/DLNA on Maemo and happen to miss Maemo summit, here is the video of my talk. You'll notice that slide screen is only half visible but that is not really a problem since you can access the slides here .

GUPnP AV 0.5.2 Changes since 0.5.1: - Add a missing NULL check. - Fix a potential leak of xmlDoc. - Register a (g)type for GUPnPSearchCriteriaOp for better gtk-doc and vala-gen-introspect support. - Fix docs for GUPnPSearchCriteriaParser::expression. - Fix parsing of SearchCriteria strings: Closing parenthesis doesn't imply end of SearchCriteria expression. All contributors to this release: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Download source tarball from here . GUPnP Vala 0.6.2 Changes since 0.6: - Remove bogus type_argument from gupnp metadata. - No need for custom bindings for SearchCriteriaParser. Dependency-related changes: - Require vala >= 0.7.8. - Require and adapt to gupnp-av >= 0.5.2. Bugs fixed: 1850 - Vapi for ServiceAction.get_message is wrong All contributors: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Jens Georg Download source tarball from here . Rygel 0.4.6 (They've Got a Secret) Brief summary of changes since 0.4.4: - Implement optional UPnP Search action. This ...

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