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micah at schehl

Feb 4, 2010, 5:42 PM

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Popbox

I was wondering if anybody has been looking into creating an application for
the Popbox that is supposed to come out this spring. The price of the box
is supposed to be between $130 and $170.

http://www.popbox.com/

I would be willing to help program the popbox application "popapp", although
I am not familiar with the mythtv server's protocols.

raymond at wagnerrp

Feb 4, 2010, 6:05 PM

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On 2/4/2010 20:42, Micah Schehl wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody has been looking into creating an
> application for the Popbox that is supposed to come out this spring.
> The price of the box is supposed to be between $130 and $170.
>
> http://www.popbox.com/
>
> I would be willing to help program the popbox application "popapp",
> although I am not familiar with the mythtv server's protocols.

While there is no official documentation on the server protocols, there
is a partial, user-maintained set at:

http://mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_Protocol

In addition to the official libraries, MythTV ships with three
additional implementations in the perl bindings, python bindings, and
mythweb. The above link also references three other implementations
with libcmyth, GMyth, and MythtvJ. If you need more information than
the server protocol provides, try using the XML server, before resorting
to access the database. It is intended for use by UPnP clients and a
reference is available by installing MythXMLTest to your local webserver.

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/branches/release-0-22-fixes/mythtv/contrib/development/MythXMLTest
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lsorense at csclub

Feb 5, 2010, 8:12 AM

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Re: Popbox [In reply to]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:42:00PM -0500, Micah Schehl wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody has been looking into creating an application for
> the Popbox that is supposed to come out this spring. The price of the box
> is supposed to be between $130 and $170.
>
> http://www.popbox.com/
>
> I would be willing to help program the popbox application "popapp", although
> I am not familiar with the mythtv server's protocols.

It looks like it is a dedicated flash lite player. I guess you would
have to write a flash player that can talk to mythtv. It mentions H.264
decoding, but nothing else, so I guess unless mythtv happens to be using
that codec, it won't like the video files very much.

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micah at schehl

Feb 5, 2010, 12:46 PM

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On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense [at] csclub> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:42:00PM -0500, Micah Schehl wrote:
> > I was wondering if anybody has been looking into creating an application
> for
> > the Popbox that is supposed to come out this spring. The price of the
> box
> > is supposed to be between $130 and $170.
> >
> > http://www.popbox.com/
> >
> > I would be willing to help program the popbox application "popapp",
> although
> > I am not familiar with the mythtv server's protocols.
>
> It looks like it is a dedicated flash lite player. I guess you would
> have to write a flash player that can talk to mythtv. It mentions H.264
> decoding, but nothing else, so I guess unless mythtv happens to be using
> that codec, it won't like the video files very much.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
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> mythtv-dev [at] mythtv
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
>

The Popbox itself lists that it can handle MPEG-2, but the only find
information I can find for third-party developer's is for flash lite. If
the Popbox doesn't somehow allow MPEG-2 playback through third-party apps,
then a MythTv app on it doesn't seem worthwhile.

micah at schehl

Feb 10, 2010, 3:37 PM

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Re: Popbox [In reply to]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Micah Schehl <micah [at] schehl> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
> lsorense [at] csclub> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:42:00PM -0500, Micah Schehl wrote:
>> > I was wondering if anybody has been looking into creating an application
>> for
>> > the Popbox that is supposed to come out this spring. The price of the
>> box
>> > is supposed to be between $130 and $170.
>> >
>> > http://www.popbox.com/
>> >
>> > I would be willing to help program the popbox application "popapp",
>> although
>> > I am not familiar with the mythtv server's protocols.
>>
>> It looks like it is a dedicated flash lite player. I guess you would
>> have to write a flash player that can talk to mythtv. It mentions H.264
>> decoding, but nothing else, so I guess unless mythtv happens to be using
>> that codec, it won't like the video files very much.
>>
>> --
>> Len Sorensen
>> _______________________________________________
>> mythtv-dev mailing list
>> mythtv-dev [at] mythtv
>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
>>
>
> The Popbox itself lists that it can handle MPEG-2, but the only find
> information I can find for third-party developer's is for flash lite. If
> the Popbox doesn't somehow allow MPEG-2 playback through third-party apps,
> then a MythTv app on it doesn't seem worthwhile.
>
>
Apps on the Popbox must be written in Adobe Flash Lite. Adobe Flash Lite's
documentation says it can play any video that the device supports. Since
the Popbox website says it can play MPEG-2, I am hoping that playback will
be possible.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashLite/2.0_FlashLiteDevGuide2/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118d293e4ad-7f58.html

http://popbox.com/#/everything

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