[mythtv] IPTV solution project, anyone?

[Michael Haas]

On 12/6/05, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/6/05, Jun Yu <junyuu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry if it is OT.
> >
> > Back a while ago there was a short discussion about adding iptv client
> > function to the front end. My problem back then was how can it be tested
> and
> > used with no outlet in US where I live.  A litter dig brings more
> questions
> > than answers but al comes down to a simple one: is there a standard as
> how
> > IPTV should be implemented?  I couldn't find any.  Even there is one,
> what
> > is the chance that SBC or Verizon will follow it? I would say next to
> none.
> > So here I will try again to bring it up: Let's start project to build a
> > complete IPTV solution with backend management node, streaming node,
> routing
> > node, and client (plug in for myth forntend). Most of the functionality
> can
> > be borrowed from other projects like videolan; multicast is supported by
> > Linux, what left are the management parts: content, schedule, user
> > management and client.
> >
> > The usage? It can be  used as a way to share the recording and central
> > stored media files among different platforms, include handhold devices,
> a
> > small community where media file can be shared, a college campus TV
> station,
> > and so on if we have a window client ready which is there already if you
> > know videolan.
> >
> > Why not steam on demand? Heavy load on the server means more money
> spend,
> > frustrating user when not being able to connect, less efficient use of
> > bandwidth, confusing with too many choices, and not trendy - J
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyway, let's talk if you are interested or want your opinion being
> heard.
>
> Y'know, with the talk of this, and UPNP Media services going on, it
> sounds like we're going to start having "Connectors" for Myth. That
> is, other programs that use LibMyth to communicate with the backend
> servers and provide "Services" (Like a Myth->UPNP gateway, a
> Myth->IPTV gateway, an IPTV->Myth gateway, you get the idea).
>
> Perhaps there could be more scope to make Myth more Modularised (A
> "Tuner" Module, a "Program Guide Data" Module, a "Playback" Module,
> and so on), so that an IPTV "Tuner" (Say) can be added in without
> having to shuffle the whole of the Myth Sourcecode to make it fit.
> Kind of like the way Winamp/XMMS does Plugins for Input, output,
> visualisation, and expand that concept. That way Myth can be opened up
> a lot more for development, and changes to one area don't have to kill
> the whole of the tree (DVB/EIT changes, for example. There you'd have
> a DVB "Input" plugin, and an EIT "Program Guide Provider" plugin). It
> would also mean that diffrent types of input cards (DVB-S, DVB-T,
> CI/CAM, IPTV, UPNP, and the rest of the alphabet soup) can be added
> and removed from a system easily, and that chunks of code that aren't
> needed in a particular configuration can be removed completely (So if
> you're building a DVB-Based backend, you grab the DVB, EIT, and
> Backend Core packages/sources, and just build those).
>
> You could even have different "Storage Backends", so your Myth box
> could support streaming archived shows to/from Tape Backup, or
> DVD-Recorders.
>
> This will, however, require modularity, and a rock-solid API to hang
> all this functionality from.
>
> I know this suggestion would make for a lot of work, especially in the
> short-term, but I believe it would be worth it. Using ZeroConfig (Or
> UPNP, or something similar), all these services could discover each
> other, and arrange themselves into a logical and sensible format.
>
> --
> Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
>
>

Hello!

I'm afraid I won't be much of a help regarding the implementation of IPTV,
mainly because I can't write a single line of code :). However, I'd like to
bring your attention to a project called NMM. This abbreviation stands for
"network-integrated multimedia middleware" and it sounds very promising.
Here is a  (quite long, sorry) quote from
http://www.networkmultimedia.org/NMM/Status/index.html :

These [ networked multimedia] devices offer high-quality input and output
> capabilities often together with enough computing power and programmability
> to perform a variety of multimedia operations. However, integrating and
> controlling these distributed devices from an application is difficult
> because of the variety of underlying technologies.
> We are currently developing a network-integrated multimedia middleware.
> Our architecture allows for a flexible usage of different networking
> technologies and offers the extensibility to transparently use various
> existing infrastructures. Distributed devices can be discovered, inspected,
> and then integrated into a common media processing graph.



Check it out at http://www.networkmultimedia.org

Best regards,

Michael 'laga' Haas
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