[mythtv] Roku, mythtv integration, mvpmc

thor mythtv at lamedomainname.com
Fri Jan 21 11:03:55 EST 2005


On Friday 21 January 2005 10:26 am, David Shay wrote:
> Development team,
>
> I just recently found a product called Roku HD1000
> (http://www.rokulabs.com/products/hd1000/index.php), and generated some
> traffic on the mailing lists about.  I am just stepping into HDTV, and just
> bought a PCHDTV 3000 and am getting it configured.  The Roku seems highly
> extensible with it's SDK.  I will probably buy one soon, with the goal of
> getting some level of integration with Myth.  It was clear that the team
> wasn't very happy with the way that the mvpmc group/project was working,
> and I was wondering if the group was open to starting a new initiative to
> work with the Roku stuff.  If so, how would you recommend proceeding?  I
> just wanted to start off on the right foot.
>

 For image browsing, you probably want to think about Apple's DMAP protocol 
(which is what iPhoto uses to share photos, including container/albums). 
Since the Roku audio players do DAAP (a protocol for sharing audio, which 
iTunes uses), I would hazard a guess that the HD1000 either already does 
DMAP, will do so soon, or could be easily extended to support it. A 
standalone server that talks to myth's image gallery code/database and can 
serve the content out via DMAP would be a useful way to proceed. Integrating 
it into the mfd would be even better  :-)

 For music, mfd already shares mythmusic audio content out via DAAP, so it 
should work with the Roku out of the box (be very interested in hearing if it 
doesn't).

 For video ... well, no idea.

- thor

 


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