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<blockquote data-quote="Stinky" data-source="post: 41450" data-attributes="member: 13028">From what I can see, the big issue would be channel mapping - matching a stream to a channel number/station ID. Many IPTV servers carry a few hundred channels and users would be forced to map an IP address to a channel by viewing it and waiting for some staion ID. Of course, once a set of mappings is completed, it can be shared with other MP users subscribed to the same provider.I'd love to work on something like this, but I really have no idea where to start. I'm Delphi programmer but I've never written anything like a device driver. I did, however, write a quick little app that uses the VLC plugin, I'm sure I could write an app to help with the channel mapping. Dump a packet sniffer log into a VLC playlist, dump the EPG channel listing into a listbox and step through the channels (displaying the stream) letting the user choose a match and store the matchings to a DB.Edit: I see that some providers match the last quad of the IP to the channel number. The above might not be necessary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stinky, post: 41450, member: 13028"] From what I can see, the big issue would be channel mapping - matching a stream to a channel number/station ID. Many IPTV servers carry a few hundred channels and users would be forced to map an IP address to a channel by viewing it and waiting for some staion ID. Of course, once a set of mappings is completed, it can be shared with other MP users subscribed to the same provider. I'd love to work on something like this, but I really have no idea where to start. I'm Delphi programmer but I've never written anything like a device driver. I did, however, write a quick little app that uses the VLC plugin, I'm sure I could write an app to help with the channel mapping. Dump a packet sniffer log into a VLC playlist, dump the EPG channel listing into a listbox and step through the channels (displaying the stream) letting the user choose a match and store the matchings to a DB. Edit: I see that some providers match the last quad of the IP to the channel number. The above might not be necessary. [/QUOTE]

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