Max Kellermann writes: > On 2013/07/22 11:26, j...@dockes.org wrote: > > I wonder if someone has begun working on this or is planning to in the near > > future ? Otherwise I'd be quite willing to give it a try. > > afaik, nobody is working on that. I'm not, because I don't even know > what DLNA is.
DLNA is an additional compatibility specification over UPnP. The latter defines a standard way for devices (Media Server, Media Player, many other pieces of home electronics) to communicate over a network. Mostly, all communication-capable media devices except the Apple ones use UPnP. The Apple devices use DAAP instead, it's mostly the same function, but implemented differently. The idea is that multiple mpd instances on a network, could share a common music store (UPnP MediaServer), which maintains the catalog (tag scanning etc...) and presents the catalog and data through UPnP/DLNA. This would probably be much better than each instance doing its scanning across a file-sharing protocol (NFS or SMB). There are multiple implementations of DLNA Media Servers, open source or not. Many NAS boxes include a DLNA server. So the work here is "just" to implement the catalog retrieving and data access parts to let MPD use them. There are several open source libs which could provide the base layer (UPnP is a complicated beast). I was wondering if somebody had maybe started something because there are already multiple entries in the issues db on the subject. But ok, good then, I'll give it a try. Don't expect much progress in August though :) Cheers, jf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Musicpd-dev-team mailing list Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team
