Possible packages...

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On 09/17/2009 10:22 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 09:52 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
>
>>>> PS3MediaServer. A Java program to talk to a PS3 with DLNA. I'm
>>>> guessing this one would have problems because it requires ffmpeg or
>>>> mplayer/mencoder... Plus as a java program its probably a bit more
>>>> complex to create a proper spec file for. I've made the other kind
>>>> often enough, but java ones not so much...
>>>
>>> There's a sort of 'agreed-upon-right-way-of-doing-this' candidate for
>>> this particular need, which is a nice modern GTK+ app and based on
>>> gstreamer...but I can't quite pull the name out of long-term storage at
>>> present. Someone will probably know what I mean, though. The one most
>>> people use (as the one I'm talking about is still a bit alpha) is
>>> mediatomb, which is also in Fedora already. Unless this provides
>>> something significant the other options don't, it may not be the best
>>> place to start, since it looks a bit complex.
>>
>> ps3mediaservers biggest improvement/enhancement is the ability to
>> transcode video files on the fly.
>
> Since I wrote the message quoted by Rudolf, I remembered the name of the
> app I was trying to think of: Rygel - http://live.gnome.org/Rygel
>
> aside from that, the 'market leader' is mediatomb, which I think we have
> in Fedora or RPM Fusion already. It has been able to do transcoding for
> a long time, and there's a big knowledge base out there on how to use
> it. I'm not entirely sure adding another packaged
> ps3-intended-UPNP-server would be a net win anywhere.


I had mediatomb installed, very much disliked it. It may have been my 
ability to configure it as well. However it wasn't as easy as 
ps3mediaserver. Granted I don't know if the ps3 one will work with all 
media players, I think it only encodes to what the ps3 can handle if I'm 
not mistaken.

> (unless ps3mediaserver's implementation of on-the-fly transcoding lets
> you fast-forward and rewind. that'd be good. mediatomb can't do that.)

It does.