I needed a small headless UPnP media renderer for Linux (for small footprint-use in a Raspberry Pi or CuBox), but there was not much available.

Found this old project GMediaRender - but it was incomplete, several basic features missing and the project has been abandoned several years ago.

So this is a fork of those sources to resurrect this renderer and add the missing features to be useful (Original sources in savannah cvs). To distinguish this project from the original one, this is called gmrender-resurrect.

After many features added, this is now a very usable, headless UPnP renderer that I would consider stable. If you have tested gmrender resurrect with your control point, please add it to the Compabibility Wiki page (even if there is a problem). At this point, it should work with all media controllers, if not, please file a bug so that we can figure out the issue and I can make it work for you. See INSTALL.md how to create a logfile that helps to narrow down things.

If you're running this on a Raspberry Pi, you might be interested to connect a little LCD display. Check out the upnp-display github project.

Some troubles came up with the underlying gstreamer that manifests in 'not responding' after a couple of hours or days of use; this is with gstreamer 0.10 up to 1.0.7. There was a leaking thread bug whose fix showed up in GStreamer 1.0.8. If you are using an older version, then only restart of gmrender-resurrect helps in these situations. Unfortunately, in gstreamer 1.0.x version, there is another bug, a race condition, that affects gapless playing with some file formats (FLAC is ok, OGG has trouble). So I can't fully recommend using 1.0.x yet either :/

For installation instructions, see INSTALL.md

You can reach me via h.zeller@acm.org.