Documentation:Modules/bonjour

Past versions of VLC may refer to a different module as bonjour: with VLC 3.0.0 the old bonjour.c module(section link) was renamed to avahi.c and bonjour.m was created.

None of these modules have options.

Services discovery

Module: bonjour.m
Type	Services discovery
First VLC version	3.0.0
Last VLC version	-
Operating system(s)	macOS, tvOS, iOS
Description	Bonjour Network Discovery
Shortcut(s)	mdns, bonjour

Renderer discovery

Module: bonjour.m
Type	Renderer discovery
First VLC version	3.0.0
Last VLC version	-
Operating system(s)	macOS, tvOS, iOS
Description	Bonjour Renderer Discovery
Shortcut(s)	mdns_renderer, bonjour_renderer

The introduction of this probe contains a note:

Add a bonjour renderer submodule to the bonjour service discovery
module, so it can discover chromecast renderers (for now) and others
in the future.
There is still some work needed to make it detect chromecast
capabilities correctly and to not hardcode it to chromecast.
(See the TODO comment)

The TODO comment in the same commit:

// TODO: Detect rendered capabilities and adapt to work with not just chromecast

Services discovery (avahi)

Module: avahi.c
Type	Services discovery
First VLC version	0.8.4
Last VLC version	-
Operating system(s)	Linux
Description	Zeroconf services
Shortcut(s)	mdns, avahi

Renderer discovery (avahi)

Module: avahi_renderer.c
Type	Renderer discovery
First VLC version	1.0.4
Last VLC version	-
Operating system(s)	Linux
Description	Avahi Zeroconf renderer Discovery
Shortcut(s)	mdns_renderer, avahi_renderer

The introduction of this probe was not announced; it was experimental. A stable version is upcoming (currently scheduled for 4.0.0-dev).

Source code

bonjour.m:

• modules/services_discovery/bonjour.m

bonjour.c/avahi.c:

• modules/services_discovery/bonjour.c (vlc/vlc-0.8.git)
• modules/services_discovery/avahi.c

This page is part of official VLC media player Documentation (User Guide • Streaming HowTo • Hacker Guide • Modules)
Please read the Documentation Editing Guidelines before you edit the documentation

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.