FR: Clapper as an UPnP DLNA player

[juxuanu]

I have Kodi set up on my repurposed-as-a-TV computer. Kodi supports advertising itself as an UPnP DLNA server (which Avahi daemon sees and VLC can play from correctly). See https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/Services/UPnP_DLNA.
Right now, with the available Gnome applications, it's a bit hard to easily play content from such sources without resorting to VLC or djmount [link].
So, I wonder if this would be something that Clapper could pursue. As a first thought, I'd imagine a new button on the initial screen, "Browse local network for available media servers...", etc. I'm guessing it could integrate with Avahi, or whatever. I understand it'd be a big new chunk of code and I don't know if it belongs to a video player to be able to browse the available content, but given I don't see an easy way at the moment, I thought it'd be cool. What do you think? Would this make sense?

EDIT: Totem apparently can, under its "Channels" section, but in my computer it's broken (it fails to play any video) and there were already talk about removing this functionality altogether (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/-/issues/355).

[Rafostar]

While I agree this is a good use-case for a video player, I am not sure if I want to make this part of the "core" Clapper application itself, considering how much new views/windows + dependencies this would need.

This might be something that will end up better way in a dedicated app for such usage with Clapper implemented as an embedded player in that app. But who knows? Let's leave it as an open feature request for the time being.

[juxuanu]

Yeah, it might be better off in its own app. Given you created the Clapper GTK library, video player integration would be trivial.