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authorZeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@gnome.org>2009-09-23 22:33:31 +0300
committerZeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@gnome.org>2009-09-23 22:33:31 +0300
commitec63b63ada3521e61df4a2d75d9aefa210781679 (patch)
treea54b9cadce8ad59abcf1f4a3dcb6bf1d5e39402e
parent3528779eedb9448d13b87af2545d9823adbef539 (diff)
downloadrygel-ec63b63ada3521e61df4a2d75d9aefa210781679.tar.gz
core: More corrections to release logRYGEL_0_4
-rw-r--r--NEWS41
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e369d550..14cfac3a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,19 +6,17 @@ Brief summary of changes since 0.3:
- Rygel is no more just a MediaServer but rather a collection of DLNA (UPnP AV)
services (devices in UPnP speak).
- Port to new GUPnP APIs. The biggest advantage of that is that we now have
- dynamic network support, i-e rygel can attach/detach to/from a network
+ dynamic network support, i-e Rygel can attach/detach to/from a network
interface as it goes up/down.
- Support for time-based seeking in transcoded streams.
-- Folder plugin renamed to MediaExport.
-- Nice default title for Tracker and MediaExport.
- Random tweaks to transcoding pipelines.
- Provide a DBus service providing two functionalities:
- * Ability to tell rygel to shutdown. Starting of Rygel is automatically
+ * Ability to tell Rygel to shutdown. Starting of Rygel is automatically
handled by D-Bus since a .service file is provided by Rygel.
* Ability to tell Rygel (MediaExport plugin actually) to (un)export URIs on
the fly.
- Implement enabling/disabling of UPnP in the preferences.
-- Configuration through commandline options.
+- Configuration through command-line options.
- Use a .ini configuration file rather than gconf.
- Special default configuration for Maemo.
- Don't spam the user's config directory and instead keep the description files
@@ -28,7 +26,6 @@ Brief summary of changes since 0.3:
- Remove integrated DVB plugin as DVBDaemon now implements the external plugin
interface and hence dynamically glues to Rygel, just like PulseAudio.
- New classes to further ease the plugin implementation.
-- MediaExport now uses the new Rygel clases to extract and save media metadata.
- (Un)pause the SoupMessage at the right time. This was causing a lot of delays
when playing media on Sony PS3.
- Bitrate is supposed to be in bytes/second. Not really but tell that to writers
@@ -40,38 +37,42 @@ Brief summary of changes since 0.3:
- Provide "contentFeatures.dlna.org" header in the HTTP responses.
- Provide DLNA transferMode header in the HTTP responses.
- Only advertise internal URIs on local loopback interface.
-- Replace 'ip' config by 'interface' so users can bind rygel to interfaces
+- Replace 'ip' config by 'interface' so users can bind Rygel to interfaces
rather than IP.
- Allow plugins to provide thumbnails.
- Add thumbnails (if available) for each item if none provided by plugins. This
- works both on the destkop and maemo.
-- Supress all C compiler warnings by default. These warnings are mostly useless
+ works both on the desktop and Maemo.
+- Suppress all C compiler warnings by default. These warnings are mostly useless
for us since almost all C code is generated.
-- Provide simple and easy options to add and remove files and folders to
- MediaExport in the Preferences UI.
-- Use Glade to it's max.
- Preference dialog is now more like a GNOME preferences dialog.
- Provide .desktop file for preferences dialog.
- Shave the build output.
-- External plugin:
- - actually use 'DLNAProfile' property.
- - Don't load the plugin more than once.
- - Utilize optional MediaItem properties.
- - Fetch items on demand.
- - Fix critical warnings.
+- GstLaunch: New plugin that exposes gstreamer pipelines described using
+ familiar gst-launch syntax in the user configuration.
- Tracker plugin:
+ - Nicer default title.
- Better detection of Tracker availability. Apparently ubuntu folks think that
providing a .service file is wrong.
- Better titles for top-level folders.
- More usable hierarchy: Browsing by artists, albums and tags.
-- MediaExport plugin:
+- Folder plugin:
+ - Rename to MediaExport.
+ - Nicer default title.
+ - Use the new Rygel classes to extract, export and save media metadata.
- notify about updates to containers.
- Skip files/folders starting with '.'.
- Avoid crash if unknown file is found.
- Delete gone directories on new start.
- React on deletion of files.
- Add recursive file monitoring.
- - Export Metadata
+ - Provide simple and easy options to add and remove files and folders from the
+ preferences UI.
+- External plugin:
+ - actually use 'DLNAProfile' property.
+ - Don't load the plugin more than once.
+ - Utilise optional MediaItem properties.
+ - Fetch items on demand.
+ - Fix critical warnings.
- Mediathek plugin:
- Fix crash if no config is available.