[vlc-devel] All things UPNP!
mirsal
mirsal at mirsal.fr
Wed Sep 14 10:02:00 CEST 2011
Hi, Jorgen !
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 11:12 +0900, Jorgen Lundman wrote:
> I am between projects, and I thought it would be nice to give something back to
> VLC. If that is appreciated, that is. :)
>
> I have just finished implementing UPNP client and server for an embedded STB
> device, so the knowledge is fresh. I also added UPNP to my own "llink" media
> content streamer.
Great, your help would be very much appreciated indeed.
> I would propose to do the following:
>
> * Use Cyberlink for C UPNP library, uses BSD style license.
>
> * Implement as loadable .so/.dylib/.dll if present (this is the preferred VLC
> way, no?)
>
> * Implement both UPNP client, and UPNP server, with optional UPNP
> MediaRenderer.(Remote control, not a media transcoder as the name implies).
VLC used to have a couple of UPnP A/V services discovery modules
(ControlPoint / MediaRenderer-ish in UPnP semantics) one based on pupnp
and the other on the cyberlink SDK, though the latter (cyberlink) got
removed because it was unmaintained and it had a lower code quality.
The issues we have with the client part are mostly due to limitations in
VLC's services discovery APIs.
The client code is in the main VLC repository:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob;f=modules/services_discovery/upnp.hpp;h=47782160a74859708ea61a9138b866686243a1cf;hb=HEAD
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob;f=modules/services_discovery/upnp.cpp;h=3a9b174c6dc8789211d995bab51ceb191649b191;hb=HEAD
And my personal repo contains a few unmerged changes (New pupnp
initialization routines / IPv6):
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-mirsal.git;a=commitdiff;h=d6c1ff88ad652ef0965d2d8cbbca0c78c4d2e94a
There is a pupnp-based MediaServer implementation somewhat in the works,
there:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-mirsal.git;a=tree;f=modules/control/dlna;h=e7cf5ea19756613f8b4459e453173214bfbb8006;hb=refs/heads/upnp-control
> However, I understand that work on UPNP may already have started. Since "too
> many chefs spoils the broth", just let me know if that is the case.
Well, starting a cyberlink-based MediaServer module would obviously be
duplicating efforts though I certainly won't stop you from doing it.
However, help on the pupnp-based one would be very welcome.
> Let's at least have a discussion about UPNP.
Sure, do not hesitate to ping me or thresh on IRC (#videolan @freenode)
--
mirsal
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