[mythtv-users] Help Developing MythWeb

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:25:16 -0500
Dave Bixler wrote:

> I "think" slimserver has a command line interface, but don't quote me on 
> that (like I just did ;) ).
> 
> --Dave

I have slimserver on my mythbox. It is great. It provides access to
music stored in many formats (converted to mp3 on the fly, so your
player doesn't need to be overly smart). It also accesses web radio,
iTunes (with a plugin I think), shoutcast and there is a good user
community. Even though it is produced commercially by slimdevices as a
companion to their very nice hardware players, it is open source and
slimdevices are active in the forums and mailing lists.

I use it remotely with slimp3slave (google it). There is also another
frontend in java that mimics the look and feel of the hardware player
that slimdevices sell. I also access it on the mythbox by ssh'ing in and
using slimp3slave (so it comes out the speakers in the lounge).

There is also a web based frontend that you can couple with an mp3
player like xmms.

There is also a telnet interface, and some sort of proprietary (but
documented) interface.

You can have the clients independently playing different streams, or
synchronise them so that they all play the same thing - great for a
party where people are in more than one room of your house. (Of course I
am  too old and curmudgeonly to have such parties, but it would have
been great when I was in my 20's).

I would like to make a frontend that could be easily called from mythtv
and used the remote to control. Something based on slimp3slave would be
easy as it is keyboard controlled, therefore easy to control from lirc.
In fact calling slimp3slave in an xterm with pumped up font size should
just about do it.

Theres another project for this evening LOL.

> 
> Chris Petersen wrote:
> >> There's an excellent product out there that I use already for streaming 
> >> stuff called SlimServer (http://www.slimdevices.com).  It can stream 
> >> many different types of media.  As I'm fairly new to MythTV development 
> >> as well, I don't know how people feel about integrating existing 
> >> software into the projects.  I too am a Java engineer, though I have 
> >> experience in many different languages.  Just thought I'd point out an 
> >> already existing piece of software that might make writing the music 
> >> section a bit easier.
> >>     
> >
> > Slimserver is awesome, but is a perl-based self-contained webserver with 
> > on-the-fly format conversion.
> >
> > Would be interesting to see something like that integrated with mythweb, 
> > though...  Would also make video streaming a lot easier.  Would probably 
> > end up being better served as a separate project with a mythweb plugin 
> > for it (like I hope mythstream will eventually be, though this could 
> > supersede mythstream in functionality)
> >
> > -Chris
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-- 
Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>