[WebService] General Media Access Webservice (3 Viewers)

[Mike Lowrey]

What views do you expect?

 

[pünktchen]

Categorized list with small extra thumbs, only thumbs and maybe something like filmstrip ;-)
I know it's possible, but don't know about effort...
List with thumbs should be enough to start with.

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[Mike Lowrey]

I don't see anything useful in filmstrips... remember it's a website no media center application.

 

[pünktchen]

Just to boast at family and friends

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[Mike Lowrey]

Here is an updated version of the movie view, nothing fancy but looks better

 

[pünktchen]

AW: Re: [WebService] General Media Access Webservice

Better!!!

... remember it's a website no media center application.

Why shouldn't it look more like a mediacenter, this way you could establish MP on every browser supporting device like Xbox, PS3, Mac and modern TVs.
MP everytime, everywhere. Doesn't it sound fantastic to you?

 

[Mike Lowrey]

Because HTML5 and JS aren't made for this and to be honest only trying to do something like a desktop application is a pain in the ass. If you know someone with enough HTML+JS experience to pull sth. like this off, feel free to contact him/her.

All needed data are easily accessible.

 

[Koen Zomers]

Hi Mike.

Just downloaded and installed your General Media Access WebService. Looks cool! I found that your documentation reports it runs on port 44321 by default while this should be port 4321 according to the WCF binding.

Also I tried to call GetStreamingSessions() but it did not return the session I had set up from the TV Server Configuration Console manually. Is this possible? Does it only return sessions set up by the webservice itself?

Another thing I noticed is when trying to access the WCF remotely from my dev machine to my MediaPortal machine, I couldn't access the WCF service. I changed the add baseaddress to read the IPv4 of my MediaPortal machine instead of localhost and it worked. I believe setting it to 0.0.0.0 should bind it to all IPv4 addresses on the hosting machine, right? But for some reason Visual Studio 2010 won't accept a service reference to it if I set it to 0.0.0.0 while it does when I set it to its IPv4 address on my LAN. Any clues?

Good work nonetheless!

Koen

 

[Oxan]

That documentation is wrong, it runs on port 4321 by default.

GMA doesn't have anything to do with the TV Server. The GetStreamingSessions method returns all the streaming sessions in GMA, setup with the InitStream() method. To get the streaming session from the TV Server you've to use TV4Home and their GetStreamingClients() method.

Anyway, I don't think it's a good idea to start developing something based upon GMA right now. MPExtended, it's successor, will be released in a few weeks and has a whole new API. If you're interested, I can send you a alpha version so that you can start development now.

 

[pünktchen]

Because HTML5 and JS aren't made for this and to be honest only trying to do something like a desktop application is a pain in the ass. If you know someone with enough HTML+JS experience to pull sth. like this off, feel free to contact him/her.

All needed data are easily accessible.

I wish i would.
But what about something like public invitation in forum or MP-homepage?

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