In addition, the external rygel-gst-0-10-media-engine project provides a Rygel media engine that uses an older GStreamer version and is an example of an external Rygel media-engine implemented in C.

The media engine plugin provides a module_get_instance() function, called by Rygel, which returns an instance of our derived RygelDataSource class.

This RygelGstMediaEngine class implements the virtual functions from its RygelMediaEngine base class, such as get_dlna_profiles(), get_transcoders() to report what DLNA profiles this media engine supports and what transcoding capabilities it offers.

It also implements the create_data_source() virtual function, returning an instance of our RygelGstDataSource class, which implements the RygelDataSource interface. This implements the virtual functions of the RygelDataSource interface, such as start(), freeze(), thaw(), and stop() by setting the state of its GStreamer GstPipeline.

The list of transcoders returned by the RygelGstMediaEngine get_transcoders() implementation provides instances of every transcoder provided by our media engine. These classes derive from RygelTranscoder, implementing its create_source() virtual function, returning an instance of our RygelGstDataSource class which uses a GStreamer GstBin that uses a GStreamer decoder and encoder to transcode the original data into the desired format. These derived RygelTranscoder objects also have appropriate values for the mime-type, dlna-profile, and extension properties, allowing Rygel to decide which transcoder to use.

The derived RygelTranscoder classes also implement the add_resource virtual function, to set transcoder-specific details on a GUPnPDIDLLiteResource that is first instantiated by calling the add_resource implementation in the base class. For instance, by calling gupnp_didl_lite_resource_set_bitrate().