Copyright (C) 2003 W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org> dmapd is Serve DAAP (iTunes) and DPAP (iPhoto) shares from Linux = OVERVIEW ================================================================= The dmapd project provides a GObject-based, Open Source implementation of DMAP sharing with the following features: o Support for both DAAP and DPAP o Support for realtime transcoding of media formats not natively supported by clients o Support for many metadata formats, such as those associated with Ogg Vorbis and MP3 (e.g., ID3) o Detection of video streams so that clients may play them as video o Use of GStreamer to support a wide range of audio and video CODECs o Caching of photograph thumbnails to avoid regenerating them each time the server restarts Dmapd runs on Linux and other POSIX operating systems. It has been used on OpenWrt Linux-based systems with as little as 32MB of memory to serve music, video and photograph libraries containing thousands of files. = BUILDING ================================================================= To build, cross your fingers and try... 1. ./configure 2. make 3. make install Read the ``INSTALL'' file for generic detailed information on installing this program. = NASTY DETAILS ============================================================ Dmapd can provide content to any client that supports DAAP or DPAP. This includes the following software clients and hardware devices: o Apple iTunes o Apple iPhoto o Rhythmbox o Roku SoundBridge Dmapd can read metadata from any music file supported by GStreamer. In order to use this feature you must have the appropriate GStreamer plugins installed. The following plugins are always required if you wish to use this feature: o app o decodebin o typefindfunctions The following GStreamer plugins are required for the corresponding media types: o mad (MP3) o id3demux (MP3) o ogg (Ogg Vorbis, etc.) o vorbis (Ogg Vorbis) o flac (FLAC) o mpeg2dec (MPEG video) o theora (Ogg Theora video)
