At 20:16 10/08/2005 +0100, you wrote:
[Re-send my first posting did not reach the list]
I have been using Dave Crosss Radio Player streams list in order to be
able to control Radio Player and select streamed programmes from my remote
control.
In each instance where you mention "Radio Player", are you referring to
(web-page embedded) Real Player ?
I can only guess this from the javascript function calls you listed below.
My remote control is a Pocket PC and controls the PC - which is the sole
domestic TV, and which is controlled *only* from the PPC, with no keyboard
or mouse. I attach a screenshot of its use with Radio Player. This screen
fits into a wider set of about 30 screens controlling all aspects of my
TV/Audio system, including: Live TV; Radio; PVR (with Radio Times XMLTV
data on the remote); CD; DVD; 10000-track media library; Photos; etc. See
<http://brianavid.com/>http://brianavid.com for a fuller description.
Yeah that's interesting site (but off list in terms of discussion !)
I settled on Vito Remote and Vinyl for controlling the media players over
wifi.
Nice you've documented it all though, good hobbyist stuff ;-)
Consequently I have written new RP software for the server(my TV) and the
client(my remote control) to list, select and control programmes through
Radio Player. My plan is to make this source freely available later this
month when it has bedded down (I use the MIT open source license for my stuff).
2. The Radio Player insists occasionally on popping up the message Would
you like to resume listening from where you left off? &. But my TV has no
keyboard or mouse. So I cant interact with the server in a normal PC-like
way. In reading the RP JavaScript, I can find no way of inhibiting this
message externally from my player server application (which wraps Radio
Player as an ActiveX control). So far my only work-around is to use PTFB -
a $30 external application which presses the Cancelbutton when this
message appears. This is a very ugly solution!
OK I'll bite : If you *are* referring to Real Player then have a look on
the Tools -> Preferences menu.
General -> Playback settings is where you want next. Look at the top 2
checkboxes - uncheck "Temporarily extend this duration if paused for
longer", because that'll be triggering the request to 'do you want to stay
on pause'. Or you could try to extend the pause time to 12 hours (you'd
probably stop the radio stream by then as most people need to sleep in one
of any of 2-12 hour cycles ;-)
3. All my other remote control screens have extensive real-time feedback
from the currently playing TV or audio - e.g. TV now&nextfor the current
channel, program counters and sliders for audio, DVDs and TV recordings,
currently playing track, etc. I would really like to have similar feedback
data from RP. I have yet to find how I can get the
document.RP.GetPosition() and document.RP.GetLength() values
Have you tried window.RP.GetLength() yet ? The real player object may be a
window level object (it's an embed) rather than a document level object.
Otherwise if you can point to the page URL which documents your embedding
code, I'll probably be able to help once I see what's there at present.
Let's take this part off list though, cause it's not really backstage linked.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
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