Hi, my name is Frank Scholz and I'm the founder and lead-developer of Coherence. Together with Philippe Normand, who works on Mirabeau, I would like to propose a talk for the XMPP FOSDEM dev room.
Mirabeau - creating personal media networks and bridging UPnP devices over the Internet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DLNA/UPnP devices - consoles, set-top boxes, TVs - finally enter our living rooms and allow an easy access of our digital media. But the UPnP A/V specification has been designed for local networks only - preventing media sharing over network borders. With the UPnP framework Coherence and the Jabber/XMPP infrastructure we are able to overcome these obstacles. This greatly simplifies the realization of the "access everywhere" concept and the implementation of "family and friends" networks. Not only between some software with a dedicated library, but also by transparently integrating ordinary Consumer Electronics devices. Parents can use there DLNA-enabled TV in their home to look at their kids photos on the NAS there, or one can access his audio-collection with the laptop from everywhere, or just with the PS3 at a party at some friends place. With new hardware showing up, like the PlugComputer, we even have an ideal platform for this task, which e.g. could be given pre-configured away to other family members. Beside the bridging a device like that can act of course as an UPnP MediaServer too, and be an UPnP MediaHub to online-content like Flickr, YouTube, Picasa, Miro, BBC,... Now with all necessary parts in place - viz. in the Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/... repositories, a simple package install, the naming of an Jabber server and a chat room there is all that's needed to create a personal media network. Technically this is realized by enabling the sharing of UPnP devices, like an UPnP MediaServer, with members of ones roster. The communication to and from these devices is done via 'messages' in a MUC, where each Coherence/Mirabeau instance appears as a chat user. The actual media-transfer is at the moment done out-of-band, to not strain the servers excessively. Coherence is an Open-Source DLNA/UPnP framework, -> http://coherence-project.org with the emphasis on being easily extended - resulting in a community driven, constantly growing list of plugins. -> http://coherence-project.org/wiki/MediaServer Mirabeau was first presented on the 2nd Open-Source DLNA summit in 2008 -> http://coherence-project.org/download/coherence-jabber.pdf and demonstrated during Gnome/KDE conference in 2009 -> http://coherence-project.org/download/mirabeau-guadec-2009.odp http://netzflocken.de/2009/6/30/pont-mirabeau-an-upnp-bridge http://base-art.net/Articles/108/ http://www.plugcomputer.org/ Regards, Frank _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: jdev-unsubscr...@jabber.org _______________________________________________
