I must admit on my system, it works only for recorded videos, and not for live streams.

Sometimes it is not obvious because that capability is rebranded as DLNA - but for our purpose, it mostly covers the same things. The reason I mention that is many consumer grade audio-video devices do now support UPnP. UPnP aims at making network devices plug’n’play in order to ease adoption by non-technical oriented users. Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of protocols allowing connected devices to discover each other presence on the network.

Using VLC to import videos from an UPnP deviceīefore talking about the UPnP support build into VLC, maybe it worth taking some time to explain in few words what is UPnP. In fact, for the desktop, VLC is much more than just a tool to play videos stored on your hard drive! So, stay with me for a tour of the lesser known features of that great software. There are MacOS and Windows versions too and even versions for your phone/pad/watch running iOS or Android. But wouldn't it be nice to have a startup script to run all that staff for you.Do you know VLC, the ubiquitous media player, flagship of the VideoLAN project? VLC is a cross-platform tool and you can easily install VLC on Ubuntu or other Linux distributions. And a last command line option to disable that VLC display the stream path at the begining of a new track.Īfter that you can run rygel. So just start vlc with a dummy interface. VLC should just stay in background until a video is played. Rygel itself needs to know about all clients speaking MPRIS when it´s starts. I have disabled all the stuff that isn´t necessary to just play our videos. So here is an example configuration for rygel. So i don´t get in to details here so MPRIS works and its connect VLC with our media renderer rygel. So here comes VLC in play with another protocoll called MPRIS. You can´t even play a video in fullscreeen mode. This play video and audio files, but thats´s it. Rygel provides a standalone Media Renderer based on GStreamer playbin. But rygel can also as as an player to recieve media files and play this. my Smartphone with an UPnP control point app like BubbleUPnP.my NAS as UPnP media server with all my movies.What todo with all this thinks? My NAS has a lot of multimedia files and my computer has a large monitor i thought why not connect all this thinks. I have a NAS, a smartphone and my local Computer.

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