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[Proposal] Extend DLNA specifications
Benjamin Zores <ben@...>
Proposer: Benjamin Zores
Summary: Extend the DLNA specifications Description: DLNA has become a de-facto standard for multimedia content access among Home consumers devices (TVs, NAS, SetTopBox ...). Based on UPnP A/V specifications, the DLNA ones however limit its potential to only a very small subset of multimedia files. As a result, many files aren't natively "DLNA-compliant" (while perfectly valid and playable) and require the server to transcode A/V streams to be streamed. This is actually quite impossible on embedded devices due to the impressive required CPU processing resources. See [1] for more details. The idea is to get involved with DLNA Alliance to extend the existing specifications to support more profiles, mainly: - Microsoft AVI container [2] - Matroska (MKV) container [3] - Ogg container and Vorbis audio codec [4] - FLAC audio codec [5] The project requires no development but specifications redaction and companies support fro being accepted by DLNA Alliance members. Related work: * libdlna, reference DLNA implementation [6] Scope: This should probably take up to 2 months of writting efforts and much more for lobbying. [1] http://gxben.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/why-do-i-hate-dlna-protocol-so-much/ [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa451196.aspx [3] http://www.matroska.org/ [4] http://www.xiph.org/ [5] http://flac.sourceforge.net/ [6] http://libdlna.geexbox.org/ |
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Tim Bird <tim.bird@...>
Benjamin Zores wrote:
Proposer: Benjamin Zores... The idea is to get involved with DLNA Alliance to extend the existingThis was discussed at the last OSS DLNA mini-summit, in 2008. Attendees decided it would be good, but actual progress getting something put together to submit to DLNA was missing. However, we can revisit the issue. I've saved this as a project proposal idea at: http://elinux.org/CELF_Project_Proposal/Extend_DLNA_specifications -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= |
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