trotsky10 wrote: > Hi, > > Being an owner of one of the Syabas based Networked media tank devices, > I was wondering if it would be possible (or has been done?) to create a > skin for the NMT (Popcorn-Hour, EGreat, Istar Mini, etc etc) much like > the ipeng or nokia skins. For me I think it would be great to have a > visual controller on my tv for when people are around at parties to > browse my collection (and my wife) without needing the new controller > or a laptop etc. > > I know NMT devices html browser is very basic in what is supports so > wasn't sure. > > I haven't tried the existing skins on it. Might have a play later. > >
Humm, by skinning do you mean a custom GUI? It's been a while, and things might have progressed but... The NMT uses a media player which literally takes over the GUI. So far I don't think anyone has done much past putting up text when the built in media player is not being a hog. The Syabas software in the NMT (which is based on Linux) has an internet browser which should support something called, I think, PHP? That is, in addition to what a normal (basic) browser does, it should understand extensions which allow the end user to interact with media servers (i.e. pressing play will play something instead of reloading the web page and then playing something). This last feature can be thought of as supporting a custom GUI to the casual user (i.e. they can't tell the different - almost). To that end, you would want to use something like WizD or Swisscenter. These two media servers should support the extended html the Syabas usually puts into their software package. So <yes I know this is a slimdevices list and I'm pulling it way off topic> if you download one of the above servers and point it at your music collections you will probably get some of the functionality you are looking for. However, you will <back on topic> be going in the wrong direction if you want to keep the slimdevices paradigm (i.e. play lists, radio and other services). ---- Say, this isn't you is it?: > http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=9319&pid=81464 ...just about the same question. ---- So, someone enlighten me, how do the ipeng and nokia slimdevices plugins work? Is it actually the PHP thing? Strangely enough, 5 minutes on the ipeng site doesn't lead me to any kind of "here's a 30000 foot view of what's going on" page. I ask because, I think, we can already get the NMT to play from a slimdevices back end. If all that is needed is a PHP plug in, and that has already been done for the iPhone and the Nokia 770... well... humm. Where's the, I assume, the PERL scripts for these two plugins? ...interesting project, thanks _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
