--- name: "rygel.conf" section: "5" platform: "linux" package: "rygel" version: "1:46.1-2" release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/rygel.conf" --- # rygel.conf(5) Configuration file for Rygel ## Name rygel.conf - Configuration file for Rygel ## SYNOPSIS - • **/etc/rygel.conf** - • **$XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/rygel.conf** ## DESCRIPTION Rygel reads its configuration values from the file $XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/rygel.conf or a file given on command line with the --config option. If that file does not exist, it uses the file /etc/rygel.conf. Most of the options may be overriden by commandline arguments or environment variables. See [rygel(1)](/rygel/1.md) for details on those. Lists in the configuration file are separated by a semicolon(;). Boolean values must be either the text true or the text false. ## GENERAL DIRECTIVES - ***ipv6*** Set to *false* if you do not want Rygel to run on IPv6 addresses. Whether or not IPv6 is actually supported depends on how GUPnP was configured. - ***enable-transcoding*** Set to *false* if you want to disable transcoding of audio and video - ***video-upload-folder*** Where video files should be saved if allow-upload is true. It defaults to @VIDEOS@, which expands to the standard videos folder (typically ${HOME}/Videos) - ***music-upload-folder*** Where music files should be saved if allow-upload is true. It defaults to @MUSIC@, which expands to the standard videos folder (typically ${HOME}/Music) - ***picture-upload-folder*** Where picture files should be saved if allow-upload is true. It defaults to @PICTURES@, which expands to the standard videos folder (typically ${HOME}/Pictures) - ***media-engine*** Default media engine to load. If not specified, the engine folder is searched recursively and the first engine found is loaded. - ***interface*** List of network interfaces to attach rygel to. You can also use network IP or even ESSID for wireless networks on Linux. Leave it blank for dynamic configuration. - ***port*** Set the listen port for the HTTP server. 0 means to dynamically chose a port. - ***log-level*** Comma-separated list of domain:level pairs. This allows to specify log level thresholds infividually for different domains. Valid domains are "rygel" for anything not a plugin, "\*" for everything or the name of a plugin. The available levels are 1 to 5, with 1 only logging critical errors and 5 being debug logging. All levels include messages of the levels below. To see log messages of level 5, it is also necessary to set the environment variable G\_MESSAGES\_DEBUG to all to get any output. - ***allow-upload*** Whether clients should be allowed to upload media files to the server. - ***allow-deletion*** Whether clients should be allowed to delete media files from the server. - ***force-downgrade-for*** Semicolon-separated list of device user agents (or parts thereof) that need a downgrade in the UPnP device versions. Warning: ONLY change this setting when told to do so or when you know what you are doing If you find that adding your device makes it working with Rygel, please file an issue at \ so we can include it in future releases. - ***acl-fallback-policy*** Access control fall-back policy if no access control provider could be found. The default value is true, which will allow any peer to access everything. - ***strict-dlna*** If set to true, Rygel will disable various features that improve compatibility with many clients, but break standard conformance. ## DATABASE SETTINGS Generic options for the database support library - ***debug*** Set to true for extended SQL output ## GSTREAMER MEDIA ENGINE These settings are specific for the GStreamer Media Engine. This is the default engine, refer to the **media-engine** setting. The following options are available - ***transcoders*** A semicolon-separated list of active transcoders. This setting has no effect if enable-transcoding is set to false. Possible values are lpcm,mp3,mp2ts,aac,avc or wmv. ## PLUGIN-SPECIFIC SETTINGS Sections for plugins are denoted with **\[PluginName\]** and can contain options specific to a plugin, or any of these common options - ***title*** Title of the device implemented by this plugin. There are some variables which will be replaced by rygel. @REALNAME@ will be substituted by the user's real name, @USERNAME@ by the user's login name, @HOSTNAME@ by the name of the machine rygel runs on, and @PRETTY\_HOSTNAME@ the system description from /etc/machine-info if available, otherwise it's equivalent to @HOSTNAME@. - ***enabled*** You can individually enable or disable plugions by setting this to true or false - ***uuid*** Instead of having a plugin generate an UUID on its own, it is possible to pass a fixed UUID through the configuration. Format is a plain UUID, NOT an UDN. - ***energy-management*** Set to true if you would like the UPnP device to contain an EnergyManagement service. Note that additional settings are required then, see the section on EnergyManagement below. ## SECTION RENDERER Generic options for the renderer framework, independent of the back-end - ***image-timeout*** Default showtime in seconds to use for images in playlists if dlna:lifetime is not set. DLNA wants something between 5 and 15 seconds. ## SECTION LOCALSEARCH The LocalSearch plugin uses the centralized database of meta information from the LocalSearch project, using the TinySparql library. See \ for more information. - ***only-export-from*** Restrict the exported media items to files that are located in any of the folders listed. This setting supports the usual @ patterns for path substitution. - ***share-pictures*** Enable or disable sharing of all pictures found in the LocalSearch database, filtered for the list of folders in only-export-from. - ***share-videos*** Enable or disable sharing of all videos found in the LocalSearch database, filtered for the list of folders in only-export-from. - ***share-music*** Enable or disable sharing of all music found in the LocalSearch database, filtered for the list of folders in only-export-from. - ***strict-sharing*** When enabled, only files that have a DLNA profile (nmm:dlnaProfile) will be exported. Improves compatibility with the DLNA standard, but potentially filters out a lot of media files. ## SECTION MEDIAEXPORT The MediaExport plugin is an alternative to the localsearch-backed media export. It extracts meta-data by itself and stores it in a SQLite database under **$XDG\_CACHE\_HOME/rygel/media-export.db**. %%Note: If both plugins, LocalSearch as well as MediaExport, are enabled, MediaExport will disable itself in favour of the LocalSearch plugin. - ***uris*** A list of if URIs to expose via UPnP. It may be files, folder or anything supported by GVFS. If left empty it defaults to export the user's music, video and picture folders as defined by the XDG special user directories spec. These default folders can be referenced by @MUSIC@, @PICTURES@ and @VIDEOS@. Locations can be entered as either fully escaped URIs or normal paths. An example for uris could be uris=@MUSIC@;/home/user/My Pictures;file:///home/user/My%20Videos Note: If you enter a normal path that contains whitespace, there is no need to escape them with either a backslash or putting the string in quotes. Note: It is strongly advised against using an exported folder as a target for downloads when extract-metadata is enabled. Rygel will most likely ignore the files then because they will fail to extract while the download is ongoing. - ***extract-metadata*** Whether MediaExport should query and store meta-data from the media files - ***monitor-changes*** Whether MediaExport should monitor the locations given in *uris* for modifications - ***monitor-grace-timeout*** How long MediaExport should wait to start meta-data extraction after it has been notified about a file change - ***virtual-folders*** Whether MediaExport should show generated folders based off of file meta-data ## SECTION PLAYBIN Playbin is a default implementation of a DLNA Media Renderer, using GStreamer. It allows minimal customisation of the sinks used in the renderer. For example, to configure an audio-only renderer, set "audio-sink" to "autoaudiosink" and "video-sink" to "fakesink". - ***audio-sink*** Override the default audiosink for the playbin used in the renderer - ***video-sink*** Override the default videosink for the playbin in the renderer ## SECTION GSTLAUNCH The GstLaunch plugin allows to export GStreamer Pipelines using the syntax from the *gst-launch* commandline utility. It is able to export more than one pipeline. You have to omit the sink which is provided by Rygel. Available items have to be declared using the "launch-items" setting. Each pipeline then needs to be configured for the three values of "launch", "mime" and "title", and optionally for "dlnaprofile". For example, given the setting of **launuch-items=audio;video** it is necessary to also define triplets of **audio-title**, **audio-mime**, **audio-launch** and **video-** **title**, **video-mime** and **video-launch**. ## SECTION MPRIS MPRIS allows you to turn any media player that implements MPRIS control into a DLNA/UPnP renderer by converting UPnP calls to MPRIS and vice-versa. If you want to disable MPRIS integration for some players, e.g. if they do not support setting the URL through MPRIS, you can add a section with the name of the MPRIS endpoint as shown in Rygel's log and set enable to false ## SECTION ORG.MPRIS.MEDIAPLAYER2.IO.BASSI.AMBEROL Example of disabling a specific player for MPRIS integration ## SECTION EXTERNAL Similar to MPRIS the External plugin allows applications that expose the MediaServer2 D-Bus specification converted into a DLNA server.