Coherence

A new MediaServer backend to access Picasa Web Albums and a TestServer backend to easily try out items, GStreamer pipelines, or external process pipes. A newly defined D-Bus API with an "org.dlna" interface. Support for dlna-playcontainer URLs. Enhancements to the GStreamer MediaRenderer, which now supports dlna-playcontainer and SetNextAVTransportURI, as well as jumping to previous and next tracks. Support for video items served by Ampache. Base classes for a ScheduledRecording service.

MediaServer backends were added, which allow access to YouTube, miroGuide, Shoutcast TV, the SWR3 podcasts, and a German radio station. Adjustments were made to the Ampache backend to work with newer Ampache versions. Lots of compatibility enhancements were made for different devices. A "port" to the OpenEmbedded platform was made.

This release adds a MediaServer backend to watch
movies trailers from
the Apple HD trailers site, images hosted at a
Gallery site, Lolcats
images, BBC podcasts, and videos from ted.com, a
Flickr MediaServer
backend, transcoding of audio files for DLNA
devices (PS3, XBox 360,
etc.), several plugins for the Nautilus
filemanager for sharing folders,
uploading files to MediaServers, or playing files
from Nautilus on a
UPnP A/V MediaRenderer, and greatly-improved XBox
360 support, including
audio transcoding.

A MediaServer backend for DVB-Daemon, a client
device and service implementations for BinaryLight
and DimmableLight devices, a plugin for Totem, and
the first set of unit tests were added. A basic
reusable PyGTK based UPnP A/V ControlPoint widget
was added, and is used in the Totem plugin. The
D-Bus support was reworked. The XBox 360 support
was reworked (again). A copy of Louie
(http://pylouie.org) is included to solve a
setuptools runtime dependency issue. The usual
bugfixes and enhancements were made.

A MediaServer backend for Meta Tracker was added.
The IP-address detection on Windows was simplified
with the help of the optional Python package
netifaces. Filename encoding issues are properly
handled in the filesystem based MediaServer. A lot
of community driven fixes and enhancements were
made.