I watch videos on a windows box connected to the TV set by using VLC to handle the video playback. VLC is shipped with a build-in "remote control" web interface.
As SqueezeCenter is installed on the box it could easily be used to remote control VLC. Aparently there's no SOAP or XMLRPC interface, however, the good news is that VLC's HTTP interface can be customized, e.g. be made machine readable. A potential plugin would need to query VLC's one-pager HTTP interface, extract all needed information (playlist, current file, playback info, etc) and present that on the screen of the squeezebox. I'm willing to implement that, but Perl is really not my favourite programming language. Could someone please give me a set of example files to start with? insert a "Video Player" menu item, issue a HTTP request, parse the result, present the playlist to the squeezebox, let the user scroll to the files, display file info and navigate deeper into the playlist (it's a tree), start/stop/pause/skip/etc playback, constantly update "now playing" screen, switch audio channel/aspect ratio/subtitles (e.g. react to specific keys on the remote) and finally quit the VLC plugin by returning to the usual squeezebox menu. I just need a basic code layout for the plugin, I'll fill in the gaps :) -- jagertee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jagertee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8914 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29064 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
