For a few weeks I have an idea for a slimserver plugin, but I don't know how to program it myself.
The idea is as follows: A lot of people (including myself ;-) have their Squeezebox standing close to their television set. My first idea was: wouldn't it be nice to show the play or remaining time on your squeezebox display when you are watching a movie on your television (connected to your computer of course). The fantastic squeezebox display is doing nothing, besides showing the time or some interesting RSS feeds. But than I had another idea: wouldn't it be priceless if you could control your favourite media player (in my case VLC) with your slimdevices hardware? And use the squeezebox display to act as your VCR-like display? I think the hardware part is fine as it is already, if you have a setup like this: 1. PC connected to your television by S-Video, composite or component cable. 2. Squeezebox with infrared reciever connected to your PC by ethernet cable. So that leaves the software part to be developed by some smart girls or guys. I think the videoplayer of choice for this project is VLC, because: VLC is open source (just like slimserver) VLC is available for all operating systems that can run slimserver VLC has various kinds of interfaces, like command line interface, and a very sophisticated web interface and last but not least, VLC has very good codecs! So, in my ideal world, I can sit on the couch with the squeezebox remote in my hand, chose the VLC plugin, scroll through my movies list (displayed on the squeezebox of course), and pick one to watch. Then my PC, running GNU/Linux, Windows or MacOS displays the movie on my television! Now I have 2 questions for you: Is it possible to program a plugin with the functionality like I described? And of course: can you program it? -- avkooi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ avkooi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8175 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29064 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
