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I made a little video to demonstrate the new features of the upcoming next version of the Rhythmbox UPnP plugin.

It shows Rhythmbox:

• acting as an UPnP MediaServer, serving its files to the UPnP player Media Streamer on the Nokia N800
• being itself a client of a Coherence UPnP MediaServer
• and in the end acting as an UPnP MediaRenderer, controlled by the ControlPoint on the N800

Original better-resolution avi here

A few days ago Nokia announced that the N95 8GB got - as the first mobile phone ever - a DLNA certification.

Now they have added a video demonstrating its use within a home network.

Nothing new actually in regards to the UPnP functionality - the phone acts as a MediaServer and a ControlPoint - but the video shows more than any 1000 marketing words what media sharing interoperability does mean.

Original better-resolution mpeg here

Exactly one year after Coherence went public, I had the pleasure to release version 0.5.0.

The topics of this release are:

• better DLNA support, in particular for the Sony Playstation 3
• a MediaServer backend for Shoutcast internet radio streams
• an experimental last.fm MediaServer backend for the last.fm service
• methods to remove local devices from a Coherence instance
• slow move to an XML based configuration file
• support for BSD systems - thx kraft!
• an emerging D-Bus interface
• more platform independency for our Twisted inotify module,
  using libc when possible
• and a lot more of the usual bugfixes and enhancements

A Happy New Year!