[vlc-devel] [PATCH] VLC as UPnP/DLNA MediaRenderer

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Tue Jul 9 18:52:51 CEST 2019


On Tue, Jul 9, 2019, at 16:28, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le lauantaina 6. heinäkuuta 2019, 18.13.05 EEST Johan Gunnarsson a écrit :
> > This adds support for VLC to act as a UPnP/DLNA MediaRenderer on the
> > LAN. This means a UPnP/DLNA control point can "cast" media to a VLC
> > instance and control playback.
> 
> Using the player seems rather dubious here. This should probably use its own 
> private input instead.

That's a good question, and is the one I asked on IRC.

It's debatable whether you want the main playlist to show what was sent to the renderer, or not.

Do we want the current playback to stop, or it to be shown on the side?
I'm very much unsure.

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