[mythtv-users] MobileMyth v.7 Released - Better Late Than Never

Philip Nourse pjn at pobox.com
Thu Oct 23 19:17:45 UTC 2014


On 23/10/2014 2:03 PM, William Jacoby wrote:
> On 10/23/2014 11:55 AM, Jon Heizer wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Brian J. Murrell 
>> <brian at interlinx.bc.ca <mailto:brian at interlinx.bc.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 08:53 -0500, Jon Heizer wrote:
>>     >
>>     > As far as the chromecast, all the loop holes getting closed you
>>     may have
>>     > heard stories about
>>
>>     No, I have not heard any stories.  Could you expand on those?  What
>>     exactly are the details and problems?
>>
>>     > kept shutting me down too.
>>
>>     So are you saying that your using Chromecast was only possible due to
>>     loopholes?  Surely nobody wants a technology solution based on
>>     loopholes
>>     do they?  Loopholes get closed, I guess as you have seen.
>>
>>     Why do you need loopholes?
>>
>>     b.
>>
>>
>> At first there was a general default video play on the chromecast 
>> that anyone could use without an API key.  Some of the first released 
>> Chromecast apps used this. Ex: 
>> http://www.droid-life.com/2013/08/26/google-responds-to-third-party-apps-breaking-after-latest-chromecast-update/ 
>>   One of the first updates to the device removed that ability and 
>> required you to have your own key.  Ok fine.  Then when the final SDK 
>> was released they will only issue you a key if you are using their 
>> official SDK, which I was not in the slightest.  I'm a website, not a 
>> Java/obj-c app.  So I'd have to have apps acting as a middle man to 
>> get anything to work.  After having to start over a few times I just 
>> haven't touched it since.
>>
>> I'm not saying Myth and chromecasts are a dead end, just from a 
>> website they are basically.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
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> Not sure if you've heard of Matchstick, but it maybe a better 
> alternative, unencumbered with the draconian restrictions of the 
> Chromecast.  It's well surpassed it's initial goals.
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matchstick/matchstick-the-streaming-stick-built-on-firefox-os
>
Are you guys sure that the generic player is dead?   It is still in the 
documentation as not requiring an API key.  You can't change or annotate 
it, but it will play video.

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