What work should I do now, development wise?

[Speedy2206]

Based on the current results of the poll, ruling out the BBC iPlayer option for reasons mentioned above, I will start work tomorrow on a super version of the All-in-Wonder menu. Don't worry..... I won't have those hideous icons this time!

I will build the menu using a custom-built base library of functions and pre-determined constants, making it easy work for image developers to implement this. All comments will be appreciated from a BETA test which I will release probably at the weekend.

If there are any special requests for things to go into the AIW menu (or maybe even NOT to go into the AIW menu!) then please let them be known here.

Once development work has reached a point where the menu is stable I will leave it up to the many developers on here to modify it and post their changes as they see fit. At that point I will begin work on the SetMyLocation with XML reading.

Re-creating the All in Wonder menu will allow me to brush up on my year or so that I have missed with regards to C++ coding

Many thanks to all those who voted!

[pt-1]

Originally Posted by pt-1

The Dbox just has not got enough CPU Power to handle the BBC Stuff.
Using VLC running on a PC should be OK and Freddy modified the Stuff from Germany to work with the iPlayer page.

A good working Plugin is the iPlayer on the XBMC

http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-iplayer/


On another note,

did we ever get anywhere with the Red Button Stuff?

http://www.redbutton.dsl.pipex.com/

Speedys old Forum had a wealth of Information as we all met up there but I assume it's all gone.

The Virgin Box actually allows to use iPlayer so maybe something could be done via the MHEG Option..?

I am not sure if we ever found anything on Cable but Freesat uses something simular and not OpenTV by our "Friend" Mr. Murdoch

http://code.google.com/p/openmheg/downloads/list Discussion

Another Update:

http://mashed08.backnetwork.com/feed...spx?postid=605

and

http://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/17709...tive-mheg.html

So get your developer pant's on and start converting it so we have a binary for the Dbox

[chris_digital]

As for the BBCi Player there was talk of a PC plug-in that allowed the DBox to browse and play internet content. Not really dBox development but worth a mention.

Original German here:
http://tuxbox-forum.dreambox-fan.de/...st=0&sk=t&sd=a

And also the original source for the development at BerliOS:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/onlinestreams/

Original post thanks to Pt-1
Let's get this rollin then ...

Download the latest (06.04.2008) Version from: http://download.berlios.de/onlinestr...treamsV0.3.exe

After downloading (12mb) install into C: and you should have a xampplite directory in C:\

Then make sure you have got the latest VLC Version 0.8.6f from here: www.videolan.org

Install if not already installed

Then click on Start, then on Run and type CMD and hit enter.

after this type cd C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC and hit enter

then vlc.exe -I ntservice --ntservice-install --ntservice-options "--sout-transcode-fps 25.0000" --ntservice-extraintf "http" and hit enter

Right click on "My Computer" > Manage > Services and Applications > Services and start the VLC service

Above will always load VLC On Startup of the PC (needed to watch streaming video via dbox).

To test above type http:\\127.0.0.1:8080 and the VLC Control should show up

Reboot the PC after this

after you set everything and rebooted the PC you will need to start the Apache Server via:

Click on Start
Click on Run
type C:\xampplite\apache_start.bat and hit enter (black dos screen will appear, only close this when you have finished viewing)

Of course you can browse to it in Explorer or even add a shortcut to the start up menu to have it run all the Time when the PC is restarted.
You will need to start the Server before you are able to Browse the Content via the VLC Option !

You will need to set your dbox up to view video via VLC on port 8083 (not 8080 as standard). How to do that is covered elsewhere please search.

Go to Movieplayer > File via VLC > A list of website will appear (mostly German) > Press Right Arrow on the one you want to see. A blank page will seem to open (like you are looking for files) to see them turn the filter off (blue button on remote).
Use Right arrow to enter the folder Left to Exit and OK to play the video and home to exit video. It may say buffering for a few seconds and then start playback (may be green to start). Quality is dependent on the website and way it was encoded so don't expect amazing quality on your 40" TV when it was recorded on a camera phone!

The scripts are located in C:\xampplite\htdocs\requests\scripts\ and can be edited (I changed YouTube into English for example) using Notepad++.
BBC on demand is not working but as I said at the start I am putting this thread up to generate interest and hopefully create some new php files for the UK.