C/C++ interface to TVServer ( potential XBMC client )

Hi,

is there any C/C++ interface bulit up for interfacing with TVServer? ie listing channels, telling it to start streaming pausing and so on?

since i've added rtsp support to the dvdplayer in XBMC, though i'd check on how much work it would be to add some simple support for tv streaming to XBMC.

btw, the rtsp streams provided by tvserver isn't only multicast are they? cause that would directly cause problems.

christ rtsp sources are hard to come by. windows media player sharing provides one, but the rdp format is some weird wmv/wma format wich I couldn't find any spec about. so if anybody has some nice rtsp streams handy i'd love to have a test at them.

alright, so i've verified that that rtsp stream is playable in in xbmc. it's a mpegts stream wrapped in rtsp, so thats kinda nice. i noticed something annoying thou, if you change channels things go haywire. (vlc has the same issue).

is the stream provided preprocessed in anyway? Ie PID, SID's modified from the source stream? aslong as the service id changes ( or atleast the PMT's version ). it should be possible to detect.

Regards
elupus

Just to check, the version number of the PAT is then changed right? If so i'll add some support for that in libavformat, so it reset's it's streams properly.

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will make sure it checks for pmt changes too. so aslong as the pmt version changes, things should be fine
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Ok, just got it to work. tvserver seem to update the version field nicly.

I just had this thread pointed out to me,

Once this is all working in a release it would solve all my problems, tv server and MP client on media centre pc, then a nice portable XBOX that I can move around the house, outside on the deck with projector etc, fantastic.

I have been writing a SOAP web service with a python frontend for XBMC for sometime.

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mp_xbmc_intergration_scripts_v0_6d_update-t2263p17.html

currently supports listing recorded shows grouped by show, and epg. I am part way through doing scheduling and then will look at live TV.

Really busy with work atm but hope in a couple of weeks to get back into it.

sounds really nice. no need to reinvent the wheel. i was thinking soap based myself, just hadn't found any nice C/C++ toolkit for it. could be a point in doing it python based instead.

remember, you need to force dvdplayer for playback since mplayer can handle rtsp streams too (thou only realplayer ones at the time, so it's of no use).

Any updates on this ? Really looking forward to xbox integration, if it can happen.
Cheers

not that much. before there is an interface we can use. (ie not net remoting). a upnp server would be a nice way. but i'll be happy with anything.