My new sourceforge.net project, mobile media content client (mmc client) for the Iphone (tenative name) seeks to discover and stream whatever video / audio resources someone has on their network to the iphone (and other devices). its a subproject to another project of mine which does something similar for laptops. (that project page is here www.distributed-home.com/wordpress), I still need to put up a page for the new one, I;m thinking of using .mac.
It uses a server written in java to gather the resources , and a light weight javascript client similar to iui, but very little processing is done in the client. Already using ssdpd and dns-sd, (bonjouir) I can stream iphone format appropriate content from several very popular dlna servers, twonkyvision and elgato eyeconnect, before I release 1.0 I am hoping to hoping to support nero as well. Using the interface, you can easily switch between content on multiple servers, and play them on the iphone, there is also a customizable page for the dvdcover, discription and other info. Before 1.0 I plan to add support to show what is on tivo's you may have, unfortunately you can't play content because not only would it have to be decrpted on the fly but also transcoded to h264 or mp4 for playback on the iphone, or wmv for playback on windows mobile. Still I think it might be useful to show whats on the tivo, and tie it into one of the popular video seach engines to get cover art and a symnobis. Some of us still have replaytv's, and it might include that too, I have some code I wrote a long time ago for showing whats on that, and since its mpeg I might be able to transcode it on the fly to mp4 with resonable speed. Not sure what demand there is nowadays, with hd and all. Would anyone find that feature useful? What other video / audio content do you have you might want to see???? Be interested in hearing. I'd also like to stream live tv, I think this is technically feasible, and wonder if anyone is working along the same direction. Live tv would have to be an http stream , not rstp, and would have to be in a quicktime compatable format, as a test I'd like to come up with a way to get NasaTV to stream, all nasatv quicktime streams use rstp , with quicktime streaming server. I know that videolan can do transcoding and live http streaming, and it has been used successfully to stream tv, but VLC's quicktime and h264 support is not all that good. I'm just opening this to discussion to get some ideas, if anyone wants to join this project send me an email I may consider adding developers. You need java and ajax experience. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
