[gmediaserver-devel] Re: patches to make gmediaserver working with my ps3

[Oskar Liljeblad]

On Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 17:45, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:

Hi Dmitry!

Thanks for the patches!

> I had some problems compiling and playing *.avi files on my ps3
> (server is gmediaserver-0.13.0 on FreeBSD 7.1)
>
> Here is patches that solves these problems.
>
> Patch description:
> 1. Patch for main.c solves compilation problem in case
>    you don't have iconv library.
>   (added missed #ifdef HAVE_ICONV brackets)

Applied.

> 2. Patch for metadata.c
>    I didn't clean up the patch - so please consider it as a rough
>    ideas of what I did to make gmediaserver working with ps3.
>    Hope someone more familiar with the code could do it better.
>
>  a)  Defaults changed from DLNA.ORG_OP=00 to DLNA.ORG_OP=01
>       (required for ps3 to browse content)
>  b)  DLNA.ORG_PN for FILE_RIFF_WAVE set to LPCM
>  c)  added mapping from x-msvideo to video/divx  - not sure
>      I did it right way but it's work
>  d) Added #ifdef RESTRICT_FILE_TYPES bracket, may be it's better to
>     add command line options.
>  e) some changes in debug output

Applied as well!

> -Dmitry
>
> PS: As far as the project seems to be orphaned for two years - I make a  
> fork with these patches.
> See: http://www.beastsoft.net/cgi-bin/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/gmediaserver/

Yeah I'm looking for a new maintainer...

Regards,

Oskar