[yocto] UPnP demo - call for testing

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 10-10-20 10:53 PM, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> From: Joshua Lock
>> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:19 AM
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've successfully tested the UPnP demo in my office but would appreciate
>> someone else taking a bash.
>>
>> Unfortunately you currently need my branch from poky-contrib (josh/demo)
>> and the corresponding branch from meta-demo (josh/demo).
>>
>> The renderer and controller are installed together in the
>> poky-image-rygel image (I've been using the -live variant).
>>
>> I needed to use amixer to enable the soundcard and increase the volume
>> on the netbook I was using.
>>
>> "amixer set Master on
>> amixer set Master 75"
>>
>> Run rygel from a terminal and launch gupnp-av-cp and you should be able
>> to set play music from a content store on the device. I haven't tested
>> video...
>>
>> I need to tweak the recipes some more so that:
>> * Rygel is configured and started automatically at boot on the rygel
>> image
>> * All of the required recipes are self contained in the master branch
>> meta-demo overlay.
>>
>> I think this may mean using bbappend to extend recipes where I've
>> currently modified them in the main meta overlay, rather than
>> replication a recipe with the same PN and PV.
>>
>> I'll probably work on this tomorrow.
>>
>
> I'd like to understand a full picture of this demo just in case others are
> also interested in the test. From what I read so far:
> 	Mark works on an NAS server
> 	Darren covers a media server with mediatomb
> 	Josh sits on UPnP renderer/controller with rygel and gupnp tools
>
> So is the demo chained as below:
>
> NAS server provides media contents which are then found and exported
> by mediatomb which then are found by UPnP controller which then points to
> the UPnP renderer for final output. Here UPnP controller and renderer may
> or may not be the same board.
>
> what Josh wants people to test here is self-contained in one image which
> contains both renderer/controller and server (local media files), which hasn't
> been connected to other bits yet.
>
> Is above understanding correct?

That matches my understanding.

Bruce

>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
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