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Tamás Barta
Asked: 2014-02-24 03:39:57 +0800 CST

How can I make Rygel's Playbin (UPnP/DLNA Renderer/Player) always show up full screen?

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I started to use Rygel on Ubuntu 13.10, and the Playbin plugin of Rygel. However when I make Playbin show a video, or an image, a window shows up, but with the original size of the medium, unmaximised. My desired behaviour is to show up full screen. How can this be achieved?

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2 Answers

  1. When running Unity, I can use the Fixed Window Placement Compiz plugin with ccsm. I have to add an entry under "Windows with fixed placement mode", and set its condition to "title=Rygel", and mode to Maximized.

    CompizConfig settings showing the reqired setting

    Screenshot is in Hungarian (my native language), but you get the idea.

    Note: The solution tends to work with some situations only, but mostly it's okay. If someone knows why, please tell me in a comment or something.

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  2. May I refer you to David Wiesner's excellent advice on this here:

    https://davidwiesner.github.io/posts/using-vlc-as-upnp-renderer-with-rygel/

    In essence the in-built renderer provided with Rygel, by means of the GStreamer component playbin, seems not to have an auto-fullscreen capability.

    But better renderers do - and dear old VLC, is one such: it exposes the MPRIS media-renderer-control API, which Rygel picks up, and so offers VLC as an additional renderer.

    I use this together with the excellent BubbleUnP on Android as a DLNA control point, and PLEX, with DLNA service running.

    David's script (see his page) neatly opens VLC in the background (enabled for fullscreen), waits for it to get rolling & then launches Rygel, which detects it.

    Then your Linux box is ready to roll as either fullscreen video screen or as Audio sink.

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