rygel.conf(5)
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.
interface=INTERFACE
Semicolon separated list separated of the network interfaces rygel
should listen 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=error,
2=critical, 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.
DATABASE SETTINGS
The settings in the [Database]section are for the database support
library.
debug
Set to true to show the SQL statements used.
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.
PLUGIN-SPECIFIC SETTINGS
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.
energy-management
Set to true to if you would like the UPnP device to contain a
EnergyManagement service. Not that additional configuration is
required, see EnergyManagement settings.
diagnostics
Set to true if you would like the UPnP device to contain a
BasicManagement:2 service that allows running tools like ping,
nslookup and traceroute remotely.
server-name
A string that will be sent as the "Server:" header in a HTTP
response.
ENERGYMANAGEMENT SETTINGS
The settings in [EnergyManagement-IFACENAME] sections specify the
settings that relate to EnergyManagement services on this interface.
Example: [EnergyManagement-eth0].
mode-on-suspend
The NetworkInterfaceMode that should be used when suspended.
Default is "Unimplemented", other valid values are
"IP-up-Periodic", "IP-down-no-Wake", "IP-down-with-WakeOn",
"IP-down-with-WakeAuto", "IP-down-with-WakeOnAuto".
supported-transport
Optional WakeSupportedTransport that the service should advertize.
Valid values are "UDP-Broadcast", "UDP-Unicast", "TCP-Unicast",
"Other".
password
Optional hexadecimal password that will be used to build the
WakeOnPattern.
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.
monitor-grace-timeout
Time in seconds to wait after a new file has been detected before
trying to extract meta-data from it. Useful if you're downloading
to a directory watched by rygel. Default is 5 seconds.
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.
LIGHTMEDIASCANNER PLUGIN
The LightMediaScanner plugin exports the contents of the lightmediascanner daemon[5] This plugin does not have any special options.
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 GNOME Videos (previously known as
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.
SEE ALSO
rygel(1), gst-launch(1)
AUTHOR
Jens Georg <[email protected]> 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
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker
4. SQLite
http://sqlite.org
5. lightmediascanner daemon
https://github.com/profusion/lightmediascanner
6. MediaServer2 DBus interface specification
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Rygel/MediaServer2Spec
7. gnome-dvb-daemon
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/DVBDaemon
8. Rhythmbox
http://www.rhythmbox.org
9. Grilo
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Grilo
10. MPRIS2 DBus interface specification
http://www.mpris.org
11. Banshee
http://banshee.fm
12. GNOME Videos (previously known as Totem)
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos
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