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Hey Sam

We were recently discussing making MP content available over a network in the Requested Features forum. Some of the discussion may be relevant to what you are working on.

UPnP is being used by many devices now (for example, most of the dedicated music streaming boxes) for all sorts of things including auto discovery, connection management, directory browsing and remote control. It would be good if your webservices interface was based on the UPnP AVTransport protocol. It defines a standard for describing stop, start, FF, REW, etc. and would mean that MP could hook into anything that spoke UPnP.

Check it out - www.upnp.org and http://www.upnp.org/standardizeddcps/mediaserver.asp

Ben
 

samuel337

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Hmm... UPnP sounds very interesting - I just read an intro article on the Microsoft site (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/evaluate/upnpxp.mspx).

For the time being, I still think its easier for web app developers and other .NET developers to access a web service rather than through uPnP (mainly because web service support is supported very well within the VS.NET environment). I will continue work on the web service using the current structure.

However, I am very interested in creating a plugin for MP that implements uPnP using the AVTransport protocol. I will work on this as well. I'll investigate this in the next few days...

Sam
 

samuel337

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edgarmoon - I've fixed that bug you've been encountering with my plugin. However, I'm not releasing the plugin until later, when it will be released with maschine's webscheduler - should be sometime next week I think...

Sam
 

rien-ne-va-plus

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October 21, 2004
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hi,

after reading the topic, im still unsure about the functionality of the plugin.

i want to control MP by using, lets say, a VBscript. will that be possible with your plugin, without a web service running? if yes, how?

im not using vb.net though...

thanks

rien
 

samuel337

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August 25, 2004
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rien-ne-va-plus said:
hi,

after reading the topic, im still unsure about the functionality of the plugin.

i want to control MP by using, lets say, a VBscript. will that be possible with your plugin, without a web service running? if yes, how?

im not using vb.net though...

thanks

rien

I know the description of the plugin is confusing, so the best way to see what the plugin can do is to download the web interface (http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=19195#19195) and play around with that.

Sam
 

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