Coherence - DLNA/UPnP framework for the digital living
Project description
Coherence is a framework written in Python, providing a variety of UPnP MediaServer and UPnP MediaRenderer implementations for instant use. Furthermore it enables your application to participate in digital living networks, at the moment primarily the DLNA/UPnP universe.
Its objective and demand is to relieve your application from all the membership/the UPnP related tasks as much as possible.
New in this 0.6.0 - The late Pumpkin - release
new MediaServer backends that allow access to * movie trailers from the Apple HD trailers site (http://www.apple.com/trailers) * images hosted at a Gallery site - an open source web based photo album organizer (http://gallery.menalto.com) * Lolcats images from http://icanhascheezburger.com * podcasts from the BBC (http://open.bbc.co.uk/labs/) * videos from TED (http://www.ted.com)
an extended Flickr MediaServer backend * enables user-authenticated access to your Flickr account * access to your images and the one of your frieds via an UPnP device * upload an image directly from an UPnP device to your Flickr account
transcoding of audio files based on GStreamer for DLNA devices like the PS3, and even XBox 360
several plugins for the Nautlilus filemanager (http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus) * sharing folders from within Nautilus * upload files from Nautilus to UPnP A/V MediaServers * play files from Nautilus on an UPnP A/V MediaRenderer
an experimental plugin for EOG - the Gnome Image Viewer (http://projects.gnome.org/eog/)
greatly improved XBox 360 support, including audio transcoding
and the usual bugfixes and enhancements
Kudos go especially to jmsizun, lightyear, superdump for their work on the backends and their patient debugging sessions!
