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.