Rygel is a UPnP/DLNA audio-video Media Server.

It is able to share multimedia files with compatible devices through the network, and also provides basic logic required by DLNA players.

Project site : https://wiki.gnome.org/Rygel

The version of Rygel found on AGL Demonstration Platform is customized to integrate the LightMediaScanner Plugin, able to communicate via D-Bus with the embedded-oriented LightMediaScanner media indexer.

By default, LightMediaScanner is looking for media files in the “/usr/share/media“ directory.

LightMediaScanner is able to do fast discovery and indexing, but it currently lacks the ability to initiate audio/video rendering using the GStreamer media engine. If this is wanted, the default Media-Export plugin can still be enabled by changing the following sections in ”/etc/rygel.conf” :

[MediaExport]
enabled=true
 ...
uris=/usr/share/meda

[LightMediaScanner]
enabled=false

and restarting Rygel :

$ systemctl restart rygel