Consolidate MediaPortal Web Applications (1 Viewer)

[est68]

AW: Consolidate MediaPortal Web Applications

Hello,

simple answer: Just type in a browser (need to replace this IP with the IP of your TvServer host):

http://192.168.1.6:8080/TvServiceWebServices.asmx

You get a list of available WebServices and you can even invoke them from that page

Beeing a new owner of an iPad I am highly interested what you find out what can be done with it

cheers

Eckehard

 

[Koen Zomers]

Whats the current status on this project? I'm a Microsoft .NET certified developer (11 certificates) and am gladly willing to offer a helping hand in achieving these superb goals. Just let me know how I can assist.

Am I right that this topic is the current release of the product described here?

 

[Mouch.net]

Sounds very promising guys ...
*Thumbs up* and keep up the good, no the AMAZING work

 

[Mike Lowrey]

To move this thread a bit forward:

Me diebagger and KoenZomers already talked a bit about the new tv server webservice which is currently developed i also had a quick look on the great work of cheezey with his MPCC (MP Client Controller).
May be we should port it to WCF too, then we i think we would have a great base of services to provide most features needed.
The only thing which than is missing is the transcoding part, but i think this should be an extension to the webservice and not part of the service itself or am i wrong?

 

[DieBagger]

Hi Mike, you might also want to have a look at wifiremote - Project Hosting on Google Code, maybe this can be integrated as well.

I had a look through your (top-secret ) sourcecode and I really liked the whole architecture.

I'm also in the talks of getting these projects a better place in the forums

 

[Koen Zomers]

In my opinion we should keep the webservice easy and simple and not make the same mistake again to include all kind of side tools in the webservice. Those tools should be seperate projects which use the webservice to gather information regarding the Media Portal service. More functionality means more chances of instability means a crippled base framework and more possibilities of yet another webservice that will never be finished. Mike his first webservice release looks very promising in that. Please don't start about integrating this and that again

Mike, do you have a link to what MPCC is? Couldn't find anything via Google. I'm just starting to get to know the architecture behind MediaPortal, so I'm wondering why there needs to be transcoding for this webservice? Can't we just pick up the streams generated by MediaPortal itself? If the answer is that transcoding could be useful to provide a lower bitrate stream for mobile devices, again.. this should be a seperate project on its own which provides flexible transcoded streams.

 

[winniwinter]

AW: Consolidate MediaPortal Web Applications

I think the transcoding is a very nice feature. Especially the streaming of tv series (and hopefully also soon moving pictures) with the new ipimp version.
The only problem is that the client has to pe online, which often doesn't makes scene because if I want to stream my content to another media like my iphone my HTPC is usually off. I know that there is no other way for ipimp to do that, but IF there is going to be a consolidate version of all these services this feature might be considered.

 

[Mike Lowrey]

@KoenZomers

so I'm wondering why there needs to be transcoding for this webservice?

It's only needed for mobile devices and should not be part of the service itself!
That's why i questioned how it should be implemented.

For MPCC you have to look on cheezys IPIMP code...


DieBagger
Looks also interesting, but cheezys MPCC already has two-way communication...

The main question is whether we put different architectures for the services together or should really consolidate them
If the last has more supporters we should talk to cheezy

I'm also in the talks of getting these projects a better place in the forums

THat really good, i think you have better connections to change infinityloops position

 

[cheezey]

Mike, do you have a link to what MPCC is?

MPCC is a MediaPortal process plugin which I wrote to allow the iPiMP web app to access/control MediaPortal clients. All the code is on Google Code (MPCC = MPClientController)

MPCC itself provides no streaming/transcoding features, that's all part of the web app.

The wifiremote project was based on MPCC, I liked the zero conf idea of this but didn't like the idea of using Apple's Bonjour service for it, so a zero conf implementation without Bonjour was added to MPCC in v5.1.0