Ubuntu Manpage: rygel.conf - Rygel configuration file

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NAME

       rygel.conf - Rygel configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/rygel.conf

       /etc/rygel.conf

DESCRIPTION

       rygel reads its configuration values from the file $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/rygel.conf or a file
       given on command line with the --config option. If that file does not exist it uses the
       file /etc/rygel.conf.

       Most of the options may be overriden by commandline arguments or envronment variables. See
       rygel(1) for details on those.

GENERAL DIRECTIVES

Lists in the configuration files are separated by a semicolon (;). Boolean values may be
either true or false.

upnp-enabled
Enable/disable UPnP sharing of the media files. If set to false, rygel will still
offer HTTP proxy URLs for its media files but not actively advertise them via UPnP.

interface=INTERFACE
A list of the network interfaces rygel listens on. May be an IP, an interface name or
on Linux even the ESSID of a wireless network.

port=PORT
Set the listen-port.

enable-transcoding
Set to true to enable transcoding in general.

log-level=DOMAIN:LEVEL[,DOMAIN:LEVEL,...]
Comma-separated list of DOMAIN:LEVEL pairs, allowing to set the log level individually
for each domain, where DOMAIN is eiher "*", "rygel" or the name of a plugin. Allowed
log levels are 1=critical, 2=error, 3=warning, 4=message/info, 5=debug. Note that on
recent versions of GLib (>= 2.36) it is required to set the environment variable
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG to all to get any debug output.

plugin-path=PATH
Set the plugin search path.

engine-path=PATH
Set the engine search path.

media-engine=ENGINE
Name of the loadable module to use as media engine back-end.

allow-upload
Allow uploading of media files via UPnP.

allow-deletion
Allow remote media file deletion via UPnP.

video-upload-folder
If allow-upload is true, use this folder to store uploaded videos. It defaults to
@VIDEOS@ which expands to the default directory for video files (usually
$HOME/Videos).

music-upload-folder
If allow-upload is true, use this folder to store uploaded music files. It defaults to
@MUSIC@ which expands to the default directory for music files (usually $HOME/Music).

picture-upload-folder
If allow-upload is true, use this folder to store uploaded pictures. It defaults to
@PICTURES@ which expands to the default directory for picture files (usually
$HOME/Pictures).

force-downgrade-for
Semicolon-separated list of device user-agents (or parts thereof) which need a forced
downgrade to MediaServer:1 and/or ContentDirectory:1.

Warning
Only use this parameter if you know what your're doing or are being told to do so;
overriding the default value might cause incompatibilites. If you find that adding
your device here enables its usage with Rygel, please file an IOP bug[1] so we can
include it into the default configuration.

Sections for plugins are denoted with [PluginName] and can contain options specific to a
plugin (see below) as well these common options:

title=TITLE
Title of the device implemented by this plugin. There are some variables which will be
replaced by rygel. @REALNAME@ will be subsituted by the user's real name, @USERNAME@
by the user's login id and @HOSTNAME@ by the name of the machine rygel runs on.

enabled
You can individually enable or disable plugins by setting this to true or false.

GSTREAMER MEDIA ENGINE SETTINGS

       The settings in the [GstMediaEngine] section are specific to the Gstreamer media engine,
       which is the default media engine. See the media-engine setting. These following options
       are available for the GStreamer[2] media engine.

       transcoders
           A semicolon-separated list of the active transcoders. This setting has no effect if
           enable-transcoding is set to false. Possible values are: lpcm,mp3,mp2ts,aac,avc or
           wmv. Its default value is lpcm;mp3;mp2ts;aac;wmv.

TRACKER PLUGIN

       The tracker plugin uses the centralized database of meta information from the tracker
       project. See the tracker project website[3] for more information about tracker.

       share-pictures
           Enable or disable sharing of all pictures in the Tracker database.

       share-videos
           Enable or disable sharing of all videos in the Tracker database.

       share-music
           Enable or disable sharing of all music in the Tracker database.

MEDIAEXPORT PLUGIN

The MediaExport plugin is an alternative to the tracker-backed media export. It extracts
meta-data by itself and stores it in a SQLite[4] database in
$XDG_CACHE_DIR/rygel/media-export.db on UNIX platforms.

Note
If both plugins, Tracker as well as MediaExport are enabled, MediaExport will disable
itself in favour of the Tracker plugin.

There are several options supported by this plugin:

uris
A list of URIS to expose via UPnP. May be files, folders or anything supported by
GVFS. If left emtpy it defaults to export the user's music, video and picture folders
as defined per XDG special user directories spec. These default folders can be
referenced by @MUSIC@, @PICTURES@ and @VIDEOS@. Locations can be entered as either
fully escaped URIS or normal paths.

Note
If you enter a normal path that contains whitespace there is no need to escape
them with either a backslash or putting the string in quotes.

Example 1. Possible values for uris

uris=@MUSIC@;/home/user/My Pictures;file:///home/user/My%20Videos

extract-metadata
Set to false if you do not care about duration or any other meta-data like artist.
This speeds up the initial crawl of the media a lot. Use it to quickly share some
files via UPnP. Make sure to define an include-filter, otherwise you will end up with
a lot of files exposed which the client cannot display anyway.

monitor-changes
Set to false if you don't want to have new files picked up automatically by rygel.

virtual-folders
Set to false if you don't need the virtual folder hierarchy.

PLAYBIN PLUGIN

       The Playbin plugin implements a media renderer (Digtal Media Renderer, DMR in DLNA terms).
       This plugin was known as GstRenderer.

       This plugin has no special options.

ZDFMEDIATHEK

       The ZDF Mediathek[5] is an online archive of broadcasts from the second german television.
       This plugin can be used to subscribes to the RSS feeds of this service and expose the
       broadcasts via UPnP.

       rss
           A list of broadcast ids. How to get the broadcast ids from the web site is described
           in the file README.Mediathek (in german only).

       update-interval
           Time in seconds after which the plugin checks for new content. The default interval is
           1800 seconds (30 minutes), the minimum interval 10 minutes.

       video-format
           The mediathek usually offers the videos in two formats, WMV and H.264. Possible values
           here are wmv and mp4. The default video format is wmv.

               Note
               Proxying of general RTSP in rygel as used by the H.264 streams is currently not
               working very well. Please enable mp4 only if your renderer can handle RTSP by
               itself.

GSTLAUNCH PLUGIN

       The GstLaunch plugin allows to expose GStreamer pipelines using the same syntax as the
       gst-launch utilty. You can configure several items in this plugins.

       launch-items
           A list of of identifiers for the pipelines to be exposed.

       identifier-title
           Title of the device represented by this pipeline. Identifier is the identifier as set
           in launch-items

       identifier-mime
           Mime-type of the pipeline.

       identifier-launch
           Definition of the pipeline in gst-launch syntax. For some examples on writing
           pipelines see gst-launch(1).

       identifier-dlnaprofile
           DLNA profile for the stream.

       An example configuration is available in the distributed configuration file
       /etc/rygel.conf.

EXTERNAL

       The External plugin is an consumer of the MediaServer2 DBus interface specification[6].
       This allows external programs to share their data via UPnP by implementing this DBus
       specification. The plugin picks up any implementation of this interface on the session bus
       and exposes the presented media via UPnP. Known implementors of this spec are
       gnome-dvb-daemon[7], Rhythmbox[8] and Grilo[9] via the grilo-ms2 project.

       You can disable the whole functionality by setting enabled=false in the [External] section
       of the configuration file.

       Individual peers may be enabled or disabled by creating sections corresponding to the
       D-Bus names of the peer:

           [org.gnome.UPnP.MediaServer2.Rhythmbox]
           enabled=false

       This plugin has no additional options.

MPRIS

       The MPRIS plugin is a consumer of the MPRIS2 DBus interface specification[10]. The
       implementation conforms to version 2.0 of the standard.

       rygel exposes media players that implement the provider side of this DBus specification as
       DLNA Digital Media Renderers (DMR) similar to the Playbin plugin. This means that you can
       easily turn your media player into a DMR by implementing this DBus specification.

       Players that implement this spec and are known to work with rygel are Banshee[11],
       Rhythmbox[8] and Totem[12]

       You can disable the whole functionality by setting enabled=false in the [MRPIS] section of
       the configuration file.

       The configuration of this plugin is special. Plugin configuration is not done on the
       plugin but rather per peer that is found providing the MPRIS2 interface. See the following
       example to set the title for Banshee on MPRIS:

           [org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.banshee]
           title=@REALNAME@'s Banshee on @HOSTNAME@

       This plugin has no additional options.

AUTHOR

       Jens Georg <mail@jensge.org>
           Wrote this manpage.

NOTES

        1. file an IOP bug
           https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Rygel&component=IOP

        2. GStreamer
           http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org

        3. tracker project website
           http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/

        4. SQLite
           http://sqlite.org

        5. ZDF Mediathek
           http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek

        6. MediaServer2 DBus interface specification
           http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServer2Spec

        7. gnome-dvb-daemon
           http://live.gnome.org/DVBDaemon

        8. Rhythmbox
           http://www.rhythmbox.org

        9. Grilo
           http://live.gnome.org/Grilo

       10. MPRIS2 DBus interface specification
           http://www.mpris.org

       11. Banshee
           http://banshee.fm

       12. Totem
           http://live.gnome.org/Totem