[mythtv] Roku, mythtv integration, mvpmc

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Fri Jan 21 15:27:44 EST 2005


On Friday 21 January 2005 18:47, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Simon Kenyon wrote:
> >On Friday 21 January 2005 16:03, thor wrote:
> >>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).
> >
> >why not upnp?
>
> I've been using the Twonky media server (music mode only) to serve my
> MythTV music to my new HomePod which uses UPnP.

same here - except to an mp101
bult cybergate - but it doesn't handle myth music yet (just video)
--
simon


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