Feature suggestions

• Security/Authentification for service clients
• Ability to retrieve images (TV logos/banners/Fanart) with webservice
• For tv-series: Split items in series/season?/episode objects
• For tv channels: property that indicates status/availability (available, not available, timeshifting, recording)
• WebMethod to return the filesize of a ts file

Hi gemx,

here are a few ideas/suggestions:

• Security/Authentification for service clients
• Ability to retrieve images (TV logos/banners/Fanart) with webservice
• For tv-series: Split items in series/season?/episode objects
• For tv channels: property that indicates status/availability (available, not available, timeshifting, recording)

Hi gemx,

would it be possible to add a new WebService method that returns the length of a ts file? Vlc unfortunately can't detect the current length of a mp rtsp stream (not sure yet if it's a problem of vlc or the mp server) which makes it hard to implement a proper seeking within the stream.

Hmm, i can only determine the filesize as i currently have no idea how to get the length from of a movie in ts format the easy way

ok, that was what I wasn't sure of!

Thought there might be some way (e.g. header field) to quickly determine the length of a ts file. I can just start a timer when I start timeshifting. While this won't be very accurate it might be sufficent to implement a decent positioning.

thx anyways

That's the problem. Since a ts file is a stream with no real beginning or end, there is no header for the whole file.
You rather have to parse the sections out of the ts packets and interpret the section by type which is quite complex.
This is in general what TsWriter does... + a lot more

Hi gemx, any updates on the development front?

I'd like to add support for web-streams to my tv viewer (mp-tvviewer - Project Hosting on Google Code) at some point so it would be great if I could get a list of available transcoding options and a way to get the streaming url given a channel + transcoding option.

Also I'm currently implementing channel logos, any chance of getting the PictureStreamer.aspx url through the WebServices?

A short summary for your list:

• get a list of available transcoding options and a way to get the streaming url given a channel + transcoding option
• get a PictureStreamer.aspx url (for tv logos) through a WebService method

You can find the most recent version here: http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/m...ed-streaming-web-interface-tvserver-mp-71404/