iPhone interface for MediaPortal (iPiMP) - original thread (now closed) (6 Viewers)

[roel]

roel - Do you have a firewall in the way? Please read the troubleshooting section of the wiki and post some logs.

Indeed, the windows firewall was still running on my mediacenter, the one in the router was all set... So windows Firewall disabled and it works great, it looks amazing!

great work, thanks!

 

[svortevik]

Will it support tv-series and moving picture plugin?

 

[kiwijunglist]

Will it support tv-series and moving picture plugin?

From the wiki in the first post

Todo list (in a sort of order)

* iPiMP TV server transcode plugin to transcode recordings into MP4 format to stream or sync to the iPhone (currently being worked on) - also create thumbnails of the recordings.
* Add watch transcoded TV recordings.
* Migrate from IUI to WebApp.net - more options and better support.
* Look at FFSERVER to see if it can transcode & stream live TV.
* Support IIS installs (retain apache option).
* MediaPortal client remote control
* 4TheRecord support
* Use MediaPortal client movie & music database to stream those contents to iPhone
* Expand MediaPortal remote control
* Look into adding TVSeries & Moving Pictures support
* Look into Photo upload to MediaPortal from iPhone
* Add some debug code for service detection
* Write a debug helper to gather various logs/config files
* VLC transcode of live TV to stream to iPhone (when VLC fully supports MOV format)

* Probably 101 other things too

 

[svortevik]

Got to open my eyes

 

[cheezey]

Hi cheezy,
I just started to use your ipimp-client plugin to control MP with TCP/IP from my own program. I managed to connect to port 55667 (the default port of ipimp-client-plugin).
When I send a message like "status,nothing", I get the desired answer. BUT if I don't disconnect afterwards but resend a message like "status,nothing", no answer is send from your plugin. I monitored it with wireshark, so I'm sure, no response message is on TCP/IP.
I looked into your source code (iPiMPClientPlugin.vb) but found nothing helpfull.
So my question is, if I have to to some "special magic" actions to send multiple commands to your plugin.
I would like to use this feature to readout the "now playing" information to show them in a LCD-Display (I know there are different plugins around, but I also would like to do some other stuff like Standbyhandling and so on)...
It would be very nice, if you have some idea how to use a continuously connected TCP-connection...
Greetings
Christian

gurkc006 - I'm afraid I don't know about having a continuously connected TCP-connection. The iPiMP web application always opens the connection, does a send/receive (or sometimes just a send) then always closes the connection.

Will it support tv-series and moving picture plugin?

svortevik - yes it will eventually. Once v4 is released then I'll be looking at the streaming side of things, then probably look into additional plugins.

This is assuming I remain the only iPiMP developer. From version 4 the code will be on google code (it's already there) and I'd be happy for others to help out! (It may ease the ear ache I get from Mrs Cheezey about all the time i spend on iPiMP rather than the junior Cheezey's).

 

[zazh05]

Hello again,
hm...I´m facing a little trouble with my iPiMP. Maybe you got helpfull hints for me..!?
Simply said: iPiMP doesn´t convert my .ts-files. When I use the webinterface to tell iPiMP "convert file xy", the transcode status says
"Transcoding is not running.
Last time it started at 16.10.2009 09:24:06
and finished at 16.10.2009 09:24:06
This task failed."

What worries me is - I can´t see no reason why the task failed.
Is there maybe a problem with reading from a NTFS-Partition and writing onto a FAT-Partition?
Are there logfiles that could help me? The Mediaportal-logfiles didn´t give me a hint (maybe because I´m not that kind of Pro, you know).

Greetz,
zazh05

 

[cheezey]

Hello again,
hm...I´m facing a little trouble with my iPiMP. Maybe you got helpfull hints for me..!?
Simply said: iPiMP doesn´t convert my .ts-files. When I use the webinterface to tell iPiMP "convert file xy", the transcode status says
"Transcoding is not running.
Last time it started at 16.10.2009 09:24:06
and finished at 16.10.2009 09:24:06
This task failed."

What worries me is - I can´t see no reason why the task failed.
Is there maybe a problem with reading from a NTFS-Partition and writing onto a FAT-Partition?
Are there logfiles that could help me? The Mediaportal-logfiles didn´t give me a hint (maybe because I´m not that kind of Pro, you know).

Greetz,
zazh05

Can you read the troubleshooting section of the wiki and and post the logs referenced there.

 

[zazh05]

Thank you cheezey - and sorry...should have read the wiki...
will gather the logs an post them lateron today.

 

[zazh05]

the logs

so here it is. hope you can make sense out of it...

by the way - I couldn´t find gentle.config in the logs-section of tv-server (as it was described in the troubleshooting tips for gathering log-files). instead it appeared in the main-directory of tv-server.
does this make any difference?


I`d be very thankfull for your help!!

have a nice evening!

 

[cheezey]

so here it is. hope you can make sense out of it...

by the way - I couldn´t find gentle.config in the logs-section of tv-server (as it was described in the troubleshooting tips for gathering log-files). instead it appeared in the main-directory of tv-server.
does this make any difference?


I`d be very thankfull for your help!!

have a nice evening!

There's nothing of use in these logs.

Can you restart your iPiMPWeb service, try to transcode a file then post C:\Program Files\iPiMP\apache\logs\error.log

Also your transcode plugin is scheduled to transcode at 1am so can you schedule something to record tonight and post your tv.log in the morning after the scheduled transcode has run.