Squeezebox Jive Software Platform

[just]

Compile and run without any problem on my OpenSUSE 10.2, however I have not yet test SlimServer connection.
I was working on a SDL/CLI browsing/remote application for my Sony PSP, now, it seems that I should try to port the Jive platform on the PSP ;-)

[Fred]

When you talk about generic browse command, I would also love to be able to hook in my Custom Browse plugin in some way into the Jive interface into the standard browse menus.

Would you mind joining me on the main Dev forum to discuss how this could be best achieved from your perspective?

I checked Custom Browse, impressive!

Fred

[erland]

Would you mind joining me on the main Dev forum to discuss how this could be best achieved from your perspective?

I checked Custom Browse, impressive!

Fred

Sure, if you already have some ideas you want comments on, start a thread in the Dev forum regarding this and I'll give you my opinions.
If not, I can try to think this through a bit and post my thoughts in the Dev forum sometime during the next days.

[Smiley Dan]

So... can you actually play music through this or is it just a remote control?

[dean]

On May 15, 2007, at 6:17 AM, Smiley Dan wrote:
> So... can you actually play music through this or is it just a remote
> control?

At this point, it's only for control, but if playback were added in
the future, it would be a great replacement for SoftSqueeze on the
desktop.

[Smiley Dan]

Hi Dean.

In my unqualified opinion I think this is a big area the SlimDevices products can improve upon.

People have talked elsewhere about some TV/audio out function. I think the motivation of displaying a UI on a big screen is sound (ultimately such an interface will always best a small screen a few inches wide) and I think linking that into some high end audio/cinema is where we want to be (read: where I'd like you to be ).

However, I don't think this is best done by having a TV out option and yet another AVx channel you have to cycle through. All this stuff is solved/being solved by MythTV, Linux MCE, Windows MCE, iTV etc etc already in the sense of the platform they offer for living room accessibility. All the above are best at offering a platform, they cannot compete with the SlimServer in terms of features, knowledge about the domain and customisations already written (as an extreme example: MythMusic v SlimServer... no contest really).

That's why I think you'd be best off targeting such platforms with plugins which then integrate into the SlimServer backend/SqueezeNetwork and so on. I've always dreamt of a proper MythTV plugin for SlimServer but no one else has written one and I don't have the time to learn QT and write it.

That said, I guess you kinda like the revenues from Squeezeboxes and you may not wish to jeopardise those.

[dean]

Hi Dan,

I couldn't agree more. One goal for the Jive UI is to scale to a
variety of screen sizes and run on a bunch of platforms.

We're just getting started now. Richard's working on some changes
now that will make the Jive application window dynamically resizable
and local audio playback is on the roadmap.

Stay tuned and if you can, feel free to pitch in!

-dean

[erland]

I've always dreamt of a proper MythTV plugin for SlimServer

Me too, I have even thought about writing something myself but haven't got the time and inspiration yet.

[Smiley Dan]

Someone was posting about it on the MythTV lists a few weeks ago although only as a remote control. I emailed him asking to go the whole hog but he didn't reply. Maybe I scared him off.

Thinking about it, I think it was you Erland

[erland]

Thinking about it, I think it was you Erland

Yes it was, I'm still thinking about it. Sorry I didn't give you an answer.
I have been busy refactoring the code in some of my plugins the last months, making the code easier to maintain. Unless someone else does it before me I think I will give it a try sometime. It was about ten years since I wrote C code, so I'll just have to gather some inspiration and finish of some SlimServer plugin stuff first.

I'll start a new thread for this discussion in the 3rd party plugins section.