MPBlue PPC client release 0.0.4 (2 Viewers)

[ZetaVu]

Ok, played with theproperty browser, it listed the thumbnail from album art as #Play.Current.Thumb, couldn't get that to work in MPblue. Next song title was #Play.Next.Title, also didn't work. Tried to change #percentage to #currentplaytime (or #currentremaining) and those didn't work either. I assume there's something in the programming part to work with these.

 

[MrSensitive]

yes, i had to reprogram the nowplaying interface to make this completely transparent with MP.

I gave up on remoting for this, and use UDP now.
all properties that are changed in MP are transmitted over thsi UDP connection,
any device that subscribes to this broadcast (actually multicast)
can receive these properties.

now iot is possible to define elements for every property that is available in MP. there are a few drawbacks..

first: UDP does not work on PocketPC when the devices is connected via ActiveSync

second: UDP is a stateless protocol, there is a possibility that some messages are lost in transit..

third, most properties only change when a new media file is started, if one of these messages get lost, then no information is available on the client.

the third problem could be handled I think.. but for now it will have to do..

I will try to compile a new version tonight..

 

[LordMessi]

yes, i had to reprogram the nowplaying interface to make this completely transparent with MP.

I gave up on remoting for this, and use UDP now.
all properties that are changed in MP are transmitted over thsi UDP connection,
any device that subscribes to this broadcast (actually multicast)
can receive these properties.

now iot is possible to define elements for every property that is available in MP. there are a few drawbacks..

first: UDP does not work on PocketPC when the devices is connected via ActiveSync

second: UDP is a stateless protocol, there is a possibility that some messages are lost in transit..

third, most properties only change when a new media file is started, if one of these messages get lost, then no information is available on the client.

the third problem could be handled I think.. but for now it will have to do..

I will try to compile a new version tonight..

So with this done - wasn't it possible to do some sort of extender framework ??

 

[MrSensitive]

So with this done - wasn't it possible to do some sort of extender framework ??

what do you mean by extender framework?

 

[LordMessi]

So with this done - wasn't it possible to do some sort of extender framework ??

what do you mean by extender framework?

extender like doing a tiny mp installation - but communicating with the big MP etc.

 

[MrSensitive]

Oh, I see, like the MCE extenders.

I guess it could evolve into that some day..
the MPBlue PocketPC client might be considered to be an extender if it supports streaming to the device..

I was thinking about this some time ago.., but it kinda forgot about it..

 

[LordMessi]

Oh, I see, like the MCE extenders.

I guess it could evolve into that some day..
the MPBlue PocketPC client might be considered to be an extender if it supports streaming to the device..

I was thinking about this some time ago.., but it kinda forgot about it..

What can the UDP "server" do? I mean what can you currently send through the UDP....

 

[MrSensitive]

currently I have set up an event handler on propertychanged

the UDP server just spits out the event name and the value separated by a pipe (|)
quick and dirty solution for now.

 

[ZetaVu]

Ok, technology is beyond me but I'm looking forward to trying it. I assume this only affects the data sent from mpblue to the pocketpc. Will this allow listing of all songs selected? Album art? how about lyrics, I don't think those are indexed in mp yet, does that need to be done?

Does it change the database behavior? Let us know when you've compiled.

 

[MrSensitive]

Will this allow listing of all songs selected? Album art? how about lyrics, I don't think those are indexed in mp yet, does that need to be done?

Sorry ZetaVu,

I know you've been asking for this since your first post, but these features still need to be implemented..