Re: [gupnp] What is next?

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 15:39 +0300, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:16 +0100, Matthew Allum wrote:
> > Having some kind of DIDL abstraction/class would definitely be very
> > useful. Beyond that, Im not sure if much can be offered over gupnp
> > itself in terms of building AV services. A simple example
> > server/renderer would be cool though. It also probably worth thinking
> > about adding decent upnp support to GNOME desktop apps that would
> > benefit.
>
> I did look into DIDL abstraction, but my conclusion was that a wrapper
> would be too thin to be useful. Parsing DIDL using libxml is easy
> already, and as DIDL is extensible parsing it into any sort of fixed
> structure would be limiting. A hashtable-like interface strikes me as
> wasteful as it's just as easy to pull the info out of the xml.

Hmmmm, I dunno - like everything that does anything AV wise is likely
going to implement some kind of DIDL abstraction - even adding some very
simple here would avoid this duplication and also maybe lessen the
mental barrier in creating something AV wise ?

Oh, Vala bindings for gupnp would rock too :-)

  -- Matthew

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