Regarding to the Media Server reference implementation, it allows users to share and search content from UPnP A/V devices.
It offers a plugin architecture enabling users to share their own contents stored in multimedia portals, such as SHOUTcast, Flickr and recently incorporated YouTube Videos. In addition, the framework also provides a very simple UPnP control point API, which has being used by Canola Project.
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Requirements:
· Python
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Major cleanup on the framework (old/unused modules removed)
· Fixed PEP8 errors and files/methods/variables with wrong naming convention
· Split between framework and applications
· Separate documentation for developers and users
· Various bug-fixes on the framework and applicationss
· Thread management improvements (assured control over threads)
· Better programmatic control over the control point
· Better support for multiple instances of BRisa
· Configuration API stabilized, using cPickle
· Logging with more information (file, line, time)
· DIDL completely refactored and now uses cElementTree
· Added a simple command line tool for configuring (brisa-conf)
· UPnP A/V specifics moved out from python-brisa
· Added simple watch API for objects and SQLite databases
· Improved debian packaging
· Installation script (setup.py) enhanced
· Added more examples to the directory