A future for abandoned but important plugins? (1 Viewer)

[MrTechno]

In terms of MPExtended and the apps that depend on in (WebMP, aMPdroid, iViewer, MetroPortal) there's still a usable codebase and MP1 connectivity is all done through plugins. For my own personal amusement I got the source from GitHub and wrote an MP2 plugin + a webpage that can stream music to a Chromecast so there's plenty of future potential there.

 

[erichzann]

And mediabrowser already has chromecast support as well which is great

http://mediabrowser.tv/community/in...o-cast-stream-your-local-media-to-chromecast/

 

[wizard123]

I have said it many times but for plugins like latestmediahandler from cul8er i think the relevant plugins should supply skin functions to add latestmedia etc instead of relying on one single plugin.

 

[Sebastiii]

Hi

From discussing with older member :
1) It wont help to have the functionality in MP itself, if developer loses interest it will leave the code as abandoned
2) Having plugins as open source would help

 

[Edalex]

Hi

From discussing with older member :
1) It wont help to have the functionality in MP itself, if developer loses interest it will leave the code as abandoned
2) Having plugins as open source would help

Fully agree. Plugins developers should publish source code to let others continue development

 

[Peter Mee]

For me the MediaBrowser plugin helps fill some of these gaps:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...for-mediaportal-v0-30-beta-2014-08-20.119513/

The activity on the MediaBrowser site is impressive and having a single plugin for adding my movies, music, tv etc means that these days I only use 2 or 3 plugins in total for MP. I also have found the Web interface and Android clients fantastic and therefore stopped using AMPdroid for media.

Along with this I am only running Online Videos plugin and that's it.

I am sure at some point someone will develop a MP PVR plugin for MediaBrowser (it already supports WMC and Next PVR) and then that will be the complete MP mobile solution that we need.

Except that this plugin itself now appears to be abandoned

As soon as MediaBrowser gets an ArgusTV plugin, I'll probably move across there altogether. Pity.

 

[blub]

Except that this plugin itself now appears to be abandoned

As soon as MediaBrowser gets an ArgusTV plugin, I'll probably move across there altogether. Pity.

Yeah indeed.
That is one of the 2 reasons I am considering kodi right now, the other one is the Control4 driver.

 

[Peter Mee]

Except that this plugin itself now appears to be abandoned

As soon as MediaBrowser gets an ArgusTV plugin, I'll probably move across there altogether. Pity.

Yeah indeed.
That is one of the 2 reasons I am considering kodi right now, the other one is the Control4 driver.

I've tested xbmc/kodi several times over the past 12 months and found the TV playback image quality significantly inferior to mediaportal on the same hardware and using the same argustv backend. Ymmv.

(plus the mp argustv plugin provides access to a lot of the scheduling functionality such as series record that's missing from the kodi implementation).

Peter

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.

the TV playback image quality significantly inferior

This is not only for TV playback, it's for all video playback in general. If you want to improve this you need to try the (really buggy) DirectShow Builds or, more stable, change OS to Linux (only possible to a client only installation, as TV server and Argus too needs Windows). On Linux the XBMC/Kodi PQ is lot better than on Windows. This was a fact since ever I tried XBMC and is still valid with recent Kodi builds.

 

[Peter Mee]

Hi.

the TV playback image quality significantly inferior

This is not only for TV playback, it's for all video playback in general. If you want to improve this you need to try the (really buggy) DirectShow Builds or, more stable, change OS to Linux (only possible to a client only installation, as TV server and Argus too needs Windows). On Linux the XBMC/Kodi PQ is lot better than on Windows. This was a fact since ever I tried XBMC and is still valid with recent Kodi builds.

I had dabbled with the DirectShow build but gave up as a bad job. Good to know on Linux though, might give that a whirl, though the inability to set series record in the Kodi/ArgusTV implementation is the stumbling block for me.

(apologies for taking this thread far off topic)