Rygel
UPnP AV MediaServer that allows you to easily share audio, video, and pictures. Media player software may use Rygel to become a MediaRenderer that may be controlled remotely by a UPnP or DLNA Controller.
Developed outside the platforms our data source measures, so there is no activity history to score. This says nothing about the project — many unrated projects are actively maintained.
Activity data
Not available for this project. Our source collects commit history from GitHub only, and Rygel is developed elsewhere.
| Stars | not measured |
|---|---|
| Latest release | — |
| Repo updated | — |
| Licence | LGPL-2.1 |
| Built with | C |
Is Rygel actively maintained?
We cannot measure this one. Rygel is developed outside the platforms our data source collects activity from, and its repository lives at gitlab.gnome.org — so there is no commit history or release cadence here to score.
Read that as missing data, not as a warning. Several of the best-maintained projects in this catalogue are unrated for exactly this reason. To judge it, open the repository and look at the date of the most recent commit yourself.
What Rygel actually does
Rygel is a UPnP AV media server written in C that enables you to share audio, video, and pictures across a network. It also allows media player software to function as a remotely controlled DLNA or UPnP media renderer.
Best fit: This is a suitable choice if you need a lightweight, standards-compliant media sharing daemon for a Linux environment.
Worth knowing: The lack of recent release data and repository activity suggests that maintenance may be infrequent, so you might encounter unresolved bugs or compatibility issues with newer media formats.
Deployment notes
As a compiled C application, it typically runs as a native system service and relies on local filesystem access for media storage, usually requiring little external database configuration.
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