[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/9] core: Add a services advertisement API

[Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, at 10:12 PM, Pierre Ynard via vlc-devel wrote:
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> What about SAP?

I'm not familiar with SAP at all, but it seems to announce streams, not services, but I suppose we could announce that we have a SAP sender through the services advertisement API

> Is this going to be used for advertising other endpoints such as stream
> outputs?

Not sure stream outputs are a good candidate for this (but maybe I'm not thinking about the same thing) but things like MPD servers, Airplay renderers could be

> Are there consumers interested in and readily able to use those
> advertisements? I imagine HTTP streams would be straightforward to
> consume (just play it), but what with something as custom as VLC's web
> interface? Are these advertised objects supposed to adhere to some
> specifications or register?

Some VLC remotes are interested. We could send the HTTP API protocol version through TXT to help consumers to know what to expect from the service I suppose

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  Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen
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