[Rhythmbox-devel] DAAP patches

["Jay L. T. Cornwall" <jay jcornwall me uk>]

Hi,

Been a little while since I put these two patches together to resolve a 
couple of shortcomings in the DAAP plugin:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484881
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470711

The former patch addressed poor seek support with GStreamer's "push" 
model. Since that patch was made GStreamer added support for seek to 
MPEG-4/AAC in push mode. Only Ogg is outstanding: it can either be fixed 
with this patch (to use the working seek support in pull mode) or I can 
delve into the Ogg demuxer in GStreamer and try to fix it there.

The second patch was more complicated and tried to distribute streaming 
radio title functionality from the (built-in) iradio plugin to the DAAP 
plguin. This remains an issue in 0.12.5.

I apply both of these patches regularly to new Rhythmbox releases to 
extend support for my LAN's streaming media system (based upon the 
Firefly server). Neither patch has given me problems in the two years 
I've been using them, although I appreciate that they have not seen the 
most extensive testing due to their marginal application in most client 
setups.

What would need doing to get these features added/fixed in Rhythmbox 
trunk? I'm happy to undertake any architectural work needed to knock 
these patches into shape.

--
Jay L. T. Cornwall
http://www.jcornwall.me.uk/