After seeing my phone (Samsung Galaxy S III) picking-up some media shared from my mother's Windows 7 laptop and the experience being reasonably positive (it more-or-less worked to play videos), I decided to try my hand at getting this to work in Fedora 22. I've been generally pleased with GNOME vs. MATE this time, so I've stuck with GNOME. The mechanism for sharing media from your desktop is handled through the Sharing menu, which for sharing media, uses rygel via the SSDP protocol (commonly called UPnP). There are a couple[1] of bugs[2] relative to these issues. The first firewalld issue is marked as resolved for F21, but I think the scope is from one Fedora system to another. There are even blog posts[3] celebrating that it's working with a simple toggle, but my shares on my Fedora system are still not visible via UPnP from my phone. There was a lot of confusion and work and research done in all of these issues, and I commend everyone's efforts, but its still not working. I think this is a great feature, because at least in a home environment, I can load-up my desktop with all the audio, video, and other media files we need/want, and then we can access those from our laptops and devices around the house as we go about our daily tasks. This is a use case that I think many families can relate to, and I think will go a long way towards enhancing the common user case for Fedora. I'm sorry if I'm kind of rambling, but after diving into those issues and research the problem both through the web and in the bug tracker, and I'm a little frustrated and I just feel this particular matters needs a concerned, overall effort to resolve the following issues: 1. The (lack of) support for UPnP as commonly available via other operative systems (Yes, I mean mostly Windows, I understand there are outstanding security issues with that). 2. Guides for how to get this working officially in Fedora in common setups (I could start with my own if that helps). There are probably more, and I'm not a strong systems developer, so I don't know how much code I can contribute, but I do want to help in way I can. I've wanted this to work for years, and I'm flustered enough to want to actually do something about it myself now. Anyone have some guidance or suggestions, or did I totally miss something here? [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626188 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892801 [3] http://www.hadess.net/2014/06/firewalls-and-per-network-sharing.html -- Libre Video http://librevideo.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
