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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cheezey" data-source="post: 367659" data-attributes="member: 10350">iPiMP wasn't originally about streaming - it was about a web interface to allow the management of TV schedules & recordings following an iPhone like design. I have used Big_Kev's interface for a long time (still do on my PC) and did attempt to make an iPhone like skin for it but that was impossible - I did make a few tweaks which made it a bit more usable but that wasn't what I wanted.So I started tinkering myself. I'm not a developer by trade but can write some .NET, it was originally just a pet project but as I delved into it it grew and grew. Now, as well as fulfilling my original requirements for a TV scheduling iPhone interface, iPiMP does a lot of remote control stuff for MediaPortal clients - it acts as an MCE remote, does limited music playing and the next version will have My Videos support. This history mirrors that of Big_Kev's and how that has developed.The streaming component isn't specifically wrapped in iPiMP - the TV server plugin is standalone and could be replaced with whatever, again I just wrote it to get iPhone compatible MP4s.My personal preference would be for a TV server plugin which would allow live streaming and scheduled or live transcoding into multiple formats to cater for many possible video players/devices (including iPhone quicktime). iPiMP would then just hook into that to stream the MP4's.I agree that two web interfaces isn't ideal but Big_Kev and myself have approached the solutions from two different angles, Big_Kev directly manipulates the TV server database scheduling recordings etc. iPiMP uses TV server and MediaPortal client interfaces and does no direct database access it also relies heavily on async calls so keep the web traffic down and hence responsiveness up. iPiMP also uses the WebApp.Net iPhone web framework which means I don't have to understand or code HTML or CSS (which is good).I personally believe that using the MP published interfaces is the way to go as you get the benefit of all the coding already done by the MP devs and a good usable app. I suspect merging Big_Kev's & the iPiMP interface would mean drastic changes to one or the other and I'm having too much fun at the moment to start looking at working out SQL. That may be development inexperience talking though.Again personally - I would ideally like to see one web interface and the presentation to different browsers/devices handled using standard web development techniques (much like 4TheRecord will when I get round to making the iPhone skin for them ) Indeed there is an unfinished webinterface project in SVN which uses ajax - this may have been the ultimate aim of that.So in summary I don't believe Big_Kev's interface and iPiMP are about streaming - that's just a nice add on - thay are primarily web interfaces into the TV guides and remote controls so you don't have to use the MP GUI to use it.I'm all for co-operation and have invested a great deal of time in iPiMP over the last 3 months (approx 20hrs a week which probably would have resulted in a much better interface if a real developer did it )I'd be interested in hearing other's views.</blockquote>

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