Rygel is a home media solution (UPnP AV MediaServer) that allows you to easily share audio, video and pictures to other devices.
Additionally, media player software can use Rygel to become a MediaRenderer that may be controlled remotely by a UPnP or DLNA Controller.
Rygel achieves interoperability with other devices in the market by trying to conform to the very strict requirements of DLNA and by converting media on-the-fly to formats that client devices can handle.
Most Rygel functionality is implemented through a plug-in mechanism.
Key Features
- Browse and play media stored on a PC via a TV or PS3, even if the original content is in a format that the TV or PS3 cannot play.
- Easily search and play media using a phone, TV, or PC.
- Redirect sound output to DLNA speakers.
- Export of on-disk media via Tracker or media-export server plugins.
- Export of online media from 2nd German TV station.
- Export of media hierarchies provided by external applications through implementation of D-Bus MediaServer spec. Applications that utilize this feature are:
- Rhythmbox.
- DVB Daemon.
- Export of GStreamer pipelines as media items on the network, specified through gst-launch syntax in the user configuration.
- Audio and Video Transcoding when using Rygel’s GStreamer media engine.
- Standalone MediaRenderer plugin based on GStreamer playbin element.
- Export of media players that implement MPRIS2 D-Bus interface, as MediaRenderer devices.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rygel
Support:
Developer: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak), Jorn Baayen, Jens Georg
License: GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1
Rygel is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| UPnP Servers | |
|---|---|
| Universal Media Server | High quality DLNA, UPnP and HTTP/S Media Server |
| Kodi | Media Center with built-in UPnP A/V features |
| Gerbera | UPnP media server |
| dms | UPnP DLNA Digital Media Server |
| Rygel | Home media solution (UPnP AV MediaServer) |
| VuIO | Cross-platform DLNA/UPnP media server written in Rust |
| ReadyMedia | Simple yet compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients |
| Jpsonic | Web-based media streamer derived from Airsonic |
| LXiMedia | DLNA compatible, fully transcoding, media server |
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Rygel used to be good, but, unfortunately, I cannot get it to work since having to do a clean install of ubuntu and update to ububtu 26.04 LTS. It loads and harvests files OK but when I try playing them on a renderer on my wifi network, it plays each track for just a few seconds and then it jumps to the next and so on right through to the end of the playlist.I wonder if the changes canonical have made in making 26.04 LTS are responsible?
Hi Frank
It could be related to the upgrade, although not necessarily a Canonical-specific change. Ubuntu 26.04 has moved from Rygel 0.42.x to Rygel 45.0, as well as a much newer GStreamer stack. As a quick test, try setting enable-transcoding=false under [general] in ~/.config/rygel.conf, restart Rygel with
and see whether playback still skips.