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<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)</name>
<email its:translate="no">zeeshanak@gnome.org</email>
<years>2011</years>
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<desc>Wireless, peer-to-peer, plug-and-play RPC</desc>
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<title>GUPnP</title>
<p>
Many "consumer electronics" devices that can make use of a house's local
network support device and service discovery via a protocol called UPnP
(Universal Plug and Play). GUPnP lets GNOME applications discover UPnP
devices on the network, and publish services themselves.
</p>
<p>
DLNA is a set of standards that let devices share multimedia content in
standard formats. GUPnP can also perform DLNA-related tasks such as media
profile guessing, transcoding to a given profile, etc.
</p>
<p>
In GNOME, GUPnP is one of the basic building blocks of home-multimedia
software like Rygel, a home media server.
</p>
<list style="compact">
<item><p><link href="http://www.gupnp.org">GUPnP home page</link></p></item>
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