Rafostar/clapper

FR: Clapper as an UPnP DLNA player

juxuanu opened this issue · 3 comments

juxuanu commented

I have Kodi set up on my repurposed-as-a-TV computer. Kodi supports advertising itself as an UPnP DLNA server (which Avahi daemon sees and VLC can play from correctly). See https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/Services/UPnP_DLNA.
Right now, with the available Gnome applications, it's a bit hard to easily play content from such sources without resorting to VLC or djmount [link].
So, I wonder if this would be something that Clapper could pursue. As a first thought, I'd imagine a new button on the initial screen, "Browse local network for available media servers...", etc. I'm guessing it could integrate with Avahi, or whatever. I understand it'd be a big new chunk of code and I don't know if it belongs to a video player to be able to browse the available content, but given I don't see an easy way at the moment, I thought it'd be cool. What do you think? Would this make sense?

EDIT: Totem apparently can, under its "Channels" section, but in my computer it's broken (it fails to play any video) and there were already talk about removing this functionality altogether (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/-/issues/355).

Rafostar commented

While I agree this is a good use-case for a video player, I am not sure if I want to make this part of the "core" Clapper application itself, considering how much new views/windows + dependencies this would need.

This might be something that will end up better way in a dedicated app for such usage with Clapper implemented as an embedded player in that app. But who knows? Let's leave it as an open feature request for the time being.

juxuanu commented

Yeah, it might be better off in its own app. Given you created the Clapper GTK library, video player integration would be trivial.

Rafostar commented

While not KODI, but someone already managed to integrate Clapper into an Emby client app:
https://github.com/tsukinaha/tsukimi

This is a nice example that an app that wants to use Clapper for some very specific usage can be better then trying to force new functionality into core Clapper app itself.