Slim TV (and TV plan in general) (1 Viewer)

[CodeMonkey]

First of all I'm excited about this project!

Secondly, I did look around on the Wiki for information on this before I posted

I got the source from GIT (I assume this is the latest? I could not get GIT to work properly, perhaps due to proxy requirements, but tortoiseSVN works fine here.) and am able to build and run both client and server. I see the MP2 client has something called Slim TV Client, but there seems to be no setup for it or mention of it in the MP2 server code.
I know that TV is not the primary focus now, but I am curious as to what the thoughts and plans are. Specifically:

1) What is "Slim TV". I googled it but found nothing of interest. Is it meant just to designate a lightweight TV client?


2) Is the plan for TV to have the main implementation done on the MP2 server and have the client send commands and render the video?


3) Will it be done as a plugin model so if someone wanted to implement their own flavor of DVB it could be done easily?


Thanks!

 

[FreakyJ]

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As far as I know they want to use the old Tv Server until they build a new one (after MP2 is stable).
SlimTv is a client for the TVE3 Tv Server, but you need some extensions, one of it is Tv4Home: TV4Home - The all-in-one TV solution! - Home
In short: you have an interface from MP2 to the old MP TVE3 Server, later they will change the resource accesor and the GUI remains the same

I hope I expressed things clear enough

 

[CodeMonkey]

Yes you have, thank you very much!

 

[Albert]

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Secondly, I did look around on the Wiki for information on this before I posted

Yeah, good man

As FreakyJ said, TV isn't in the focus for MP2 yet. The SlimTV client is located in the "Incubator" directory of MP2 which means it is not really part of MP2 (yet). Morpheus wrote the SlimTV client to have TV in MP2, but as all projects in the Incubator, it did not pass any of my code and other quality checks.

 

[CodeMonkey]

Thanks Albert. Any comment on my third question:
3) Will it (TV) be done as a plugin model so if someone wanted to implement their own flavor of DVB it could be done easily?

 

[Albert]

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Well, MP2 is very open in general. In many sensible parts, there are hooks to implement an own behavior or to override a default behavior. You could implement an own TV-player, for example. But that would force you to write an own TV infrastructure so I think to implement an own flavor of DVB, whatever that means, it would be sensible to have more specific hooks in the TV part.
But I cannot present you an idea how TV part will look like yet.

 

[CodeMonkey]

Thanks again. If I might make a suggestion, sageTV has (well had I guess now that google took them over) an interesting model where developers can write software "extenders" that provide the actual TV content to sagetv to render and accept generic things like channel change commands and update sageTV with EPG information. I think it would be a good idea to check out what they have done and see if it or something similar makes sense for MP2.