[Android] aMPdroid 0.7 - Android Remote Control (1 Viewer)

[Oxan]

That's great - but often these projects aren't easily adaptable to your own application. For example UpnPlay from your solution isn't open source nor embeddable, so we can't use it. Also, there are often multiple ways to solve things, and that doesn't say one is better then another.

 

[Mike Lowrey]

Bad thing about the whole Mediaportal is that they didn't think about DLNA

Oh they do, just take a look at MP2 but since DLNA requires licensing and stuff their UPnP implementation will not be available for DLNA devices.

and as I can't code ...

Coding is not based on talent, so you can learn it

 

[Lehmden]

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Coding is not based on talent, so you can learn it

I wish it would be so simple...
I can't imagine how long I've tried to figure out the logics behind the "new way" of programming. I've learned procedural programming starting with Basic on Commodore C64 in "Computer Stone Age" and did never had difficulties to learn a new syntax for new language as logics behind are quite similar. But with this "object oriented" languages as C# is, I did never find a way to see how this works. All my attempts to learn C# are ended up in disaster every time I try... Last "language" I've learned was AutoIt. Need three days to write the first program I want to have. But with C# I can't even get "Hello World" to work as it should...
Maybe if you start all new from scratch, this might be possible to learn without the need of a college degree. But for me C# is a "book with seven seals"...

 

[Mike Lowrey]

Well then it seems it's based on talent I've started with Pascal and switched to Java(only cmd) now i'm using C# without any hassle(well except those dependency injection stuff )

 

[Lehmden]

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Or maybe I'm simply too old for this stuff.

How do I run an external program from within a C# program? Normally it's a single line code like

run "abc.exe -o";

(or : or something like that, depends on language)... How has this to look in C#?

 

[pur_berger]

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That's great - but often these projects aren't easily adaptable to your own application. For example UpnPlay from your solution isn't open source nor embeddable, so we can't use it. Also, there are often multiple ways to solve things, and that doesn't say one is better then another.

true - and it's not critic from my side - I just don't understand it. Because there are a lot of approaches out there to do different things - but if there is something working and also open source (a free Android software and not open source - I'm sure the dev would at least speak with guys from other cool projects). Or serviio - for my understanding i's a one-man show and - well - if there is a stable and good working transcoding solution (what's that about the licensing things - I can't believe that people doing free projects have spend money for licenses) what speaks about connecting it to MP - like it was done with PowerDVD for playing Blueray for example, or skype or whatever. Serviio for example is also crawling the content for mediainfo - but the outcome is absolute not that good as the one from MP (moving Pictures) - it's of course not the basic function. So why not taking the good things an put them together?

Bad thing about the whole Mediaportal is that they didn't think about DLNA

Oh they do, just take a look at MP2 but since DLNA requires licensing and stuff their UPnP implementation will not be available for DLNA devices.

and as I can't code ...

Coding is not based on talent, so you can learn it

Jaja - the MP2 mystery - I read about this since - how long - three years I think it is - and basically there is not much happening there - and if I look at the huge number of plugins ignoring the limitations MP1 "has" - wow - there is much possible.

well - at least this is what I'm thinking about this - there are lot's of really great projects out there.

Ah - yes - coding - well - I never have learned it - and I needed it at work to do some basic programming for Lotus Notes Databases and - Functions - cool - Objects- what the hack - there are things I don't need to learn

 

[Mike Lowrey]

Lehmden

That's quite simple Process.Start(<path>);


pur_berger
Well since you aren't interested in learning programming yourself, why don't you become the communicator. Talk to the servio devs if they are interested in working together. Then we will see what happens.
And something to read in regard to DLNA Why do I hate DLNA protocol so much ? « Ben’s Lost World – Diary of a GeeXboX developer

 

[Lehmden]

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Jaja - the MP2 mystery

I have MP2 running on my laptop quite well. Sure not all necessary functions are implemented jet (mainly the configuration util is missing completely) but the core is usable. It looks as if a first ALPHA will definitely be published this year...

That's quite simple Process.Start(<path>);

Ok, sounds simple.

If I wrote a "program" with this single line:

Process.Start(C:\abc.exe -o);

this will really work?
Did I not have to declare "Process" or "Process.Start" before or something even more complicated?

I can't find this in any available online source. I was looking at a command reference for C# but never can find one. All about classes, objects,... but never a clean list with commands like:

print
run
if then else
do while,
...

 

[Iwen]

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MSDN is quite a good point to start exploring different methods. But there is just too much information (WPF, LINQ, ....) that you can't expect one single list with all methods available. Browse a little bit through and you can find very good tutorials also.
Process.Start Method (System.Diagnostics)

 

[eagle]

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Hi Lehmden,

my roots are on IBM 370 Host with Assembler and Cobol. Structured programming is what I have done since 1979. Six years ago I had to learn Java. In the beginning I struggled also with this classes, objects, methods a. s. o.

But after a short while and with the help of a good book (Head First), I began to understand all that stuff. I had to recognize that I'll never get the whole stuff (so no one will do that) because there are only a small amount of instructions and lots of classes which provide their methods to the programmer. It's a kind of investigation to program with object oriented program languages.

C# is very simiular to Java in syntax and using classes (objects) and methods. You have to internalize the paradigm of object oriented programming. It looks easy to you if you'll get the idea behind object programming.


eagle