Hi, maybe it is time to tell about the status of the gmerlin project.
First of all: It is far from dead. I'm working regularly on it, mostly for fun and for learning new technologies. I was, however, too lazy to make regular releases in the past 10+ years. The main playback components are now: 1. The Media Database (MDB, the former mediatree). It is available as part of the GUI player, but also as a standalone media server. It can be accessed by UPNP-Clients, by Webbrowsers (also from Mobile phones and Tablets) and of course by the GUI player. The database itself has different backends, which allow to access filesystems, an sqlite database, Podcasts, Radiostations and so on. 2. The Playback engine. It is available as part of the GUI player, but also as a standalone media renderer. It can be controlled from the Web-Frontend or via Upnp. It supports, among other things zero-copy H.264 decoding and rendering via libva (on Intel) or V4L2/OpenGL (on the Raspberry pi) and gapless audio playback. It keeps its own tracklist, which means you can upload a list e.g. with the web frontend, start playback and disconnect the frontend. Also, the GUI-Player is accessible by the web-frontend so you can easily turn it into a browser-based media center. I'm using gmerlin on a daily basis with the media server running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 10 TB USB-Disk attached. Then I have 2 renderers also on Raspberry Pi 4, one connected to the TV, the other one headless for audio only. Current TODO items include: - Move everything to https://github.com/bplaum. gavl, gmerlin-avdecoder and gmerlin-encoders are already there. The gmerlin sourcetree needs some cleanups first. - Document the MDB, so people except me are able to use it - Make a new website on github.io - Possibly make a release. Unfortunately there is not much, where others can help except really boring things like Doxygen-comments of the libraries. Best regards Burkhard _______________________________________________ Gmerlin-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gmerlin-general
