[mythtv] Roku, mythtv integration, mvpmc

[Simon Kenyon]

On Friday 21 January 2005 16:03, thor wrote:
> On Friday 21 January 2005 10:26 am, David Shay wrote:
> > Development team,
> >
> > I just recently found a product called Roku HD1000
> > (http://www.rokulabs.com/products/hd1000/index.php), and generated some
> > traffic on the mailing lists about.  I am just stepping into HDTV, and
> > just bought a PCHDTV 3000 and am getting it configured.  The Roku seems
> > highly extensible with it's SDK.  I will probably buy one soon, with the
> > goal of getting some level of integration with Myth.  It was clear that
> > the team wasn't very happy with the way that the mvpmc group/project was
> > working, and I was wondering if the group was open to starting a new
> > initiative to work with the Roku stuff.  If so, how would you recommend
> > proceeding?  I just wanted to start off on the right foot.
>
>  For image browsing, you probably want to think about Apple's DMAP protocol
> (which is what iPhoto uses to share photos, including container/albums).
> Since the Roku audio players do DAAP (a protocol for sharing audio, which
> iTunes uses), I would hazard a guess that the HD1000 either already does
> DMAP, will do so soon, or could be easily extended to support it. A
> standalone server that talks to myth's image gallery code/database and can
> serve the content out via DMAP would be a useful way to proceed.
> Integrating it into the mfd would be even better  :-)
>
>  For music, mfd already shares mythmusic audio content out via DAAP, so it
> should work with the Roku out of the box (be very interested in hearing if
> it doesn't).
why not upnp?