I’ve committed a Bonjour services discovery module. Avahi rocks!

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September 9th, 2005 at 4:13 pm
So this will let me see if anyone on my network is broadcasting a video with VLC, and let me hop on and watch it? Or am I completely off-base? That would be pretty cool though, if that’s what it does I’ll have to try it on my school’s network.
September 9th, 2005 at 4:44 pm
Yes, that’s what this enables. However, this is only in the development version of VLC and Linux only at the moment (Avahi doesn’t yet support Windows or MacOS X).
September 10th, 2005 at 9:30 pm
Doesn’t OS X already have a DAAP service discovery model? Just have to wait until Avahi gets ported to Windows before it’s completely crossplatform.
September 10th, 2005 at 9:31 pm
OS X VLC that is.
September 11th, 2005 at 12:29 am
thadk: Yes, but DAAP is only for music.
September 13th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
I hope you appreciate Apple’s piece offering – naming an ipod after you.
September 14th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
Will you be porting VLC to Maemo too? I know that iNdT has plans of porting ZeroConf.
September 28th, 2005 at 9:14 am
>> Doesn’t OS X already have a DAAP service discovery model? Just have to wait until Avahi gets ported to Windows before it’s completely crossplatform.
Windows has one too, as part of iTunes/QuickTime 7. Might be possible to impliment their API for other programs — I dunno.
April 14th, 2006 at 1:31 am
avahi has a compatibility layer with Apple’s bonjour implementation, so I suggest you take a look at Apple’s API to make your Bonjour module fully cross-platform.