Hi,
I just had conversation with Dan.g that explained many things about media players and Pluto.
HTH,
regards,
Rob.
[13:47:12] tiniahouse says: hi, have few minutes ?
[13:48:14] Dan Gheorghiu says: yeap
[13:48:37] tiniahouse says: back to nr 1.
[13:48:49] tiniahouse says: I'd like to add media player to pluto...
[13:49:04] tiniahouse says: create new room (or audio zone - not sure about that)
[13:49:09] Dan Gheorghiu says: that is a software media player?
[13:49:11] tiniahouse says: set that player to be in that room....
[13:49:20] Dan Gheorghiu says: or a hw media player?
[13:50:16] tiniahouse says: it's not important - what counts is that that media player gets ID, media scenarios and its own audio zone or room - then I start some software and receive DCE messages for that player and control it...
[13:53:08] tiniahouse says: it could be denon CD player, or windows Winamp.... the key is in controlling application - whoever registers for that id gets DCE messages for that player...
[13:58:29] tiniahouse says: this is all quite similar what you do, when you detect squeezebox - you create room (or audio zone) , assign ID and create scenarios for that SB. Now I'd jsut like to have more generic way - create generic media player...
[14:02:47] Dan Gheorghiu says: i just had a quick chat with our admin guys ... we don't know for sure if can/can't be done
[14:03:16] Dan Gheorghiu says: for sure aaron knows what you're talking about, but he's unreachable
[14:03:35] Dan Gheorghiu says: and as i said we stoped adding new features anyway
[14:04:08] Dan Gheorghiu says: we have a tight schedule, everyone timeline is full, and we can't get a programmer to help you
[14:04:55] Dan Gheorghiu says: sorry, i know that you strugle to make it work
[14:10:37] tiniahouse says: sorry for bothering - I think that I don't need any aditional programming - you just instruct me, how you get Squeezebox into system - and then I can modify procedure to add generic media player...
[14:11:04] Dan Gheorghiu says: that's simple:
[14:11:08] tiniahouse says: What I don't know is what do I have to do, to create new audio zone, have media scenarios for that zone and how to assign player to that...
[14:11:18] Dan Gheorghiu says: squeeze box is automatically detected after mac address
[14:11:31] Dan Gheorghiu says: and then pluto asiigns ip for deivece
[14:11:35] Dan Gheorghiu says: device
[14:12:11] Dan Gheorghiu says: squeeze box needs it's own entertainment area, it's own room to play
[14:12:26] tiniahouse says: ok, I get that...how is this room created - from script ?
[14:12:49] Dan Gheorghiu says: no, you have a button 'new room' when the device is detected on lan
[14:13:02] Dan Gheorghiu says: or you can create a new one from pluto-admin
[14:14:10] Dan Gheorghiu says: if the device is assign to an entertainment area, then the media scenarios are autogenerated
[14:14:30] tiniahouse says: aha, here we are - how to do this step ?
[14:14:43] Dan Gheorghiu says: it's automatic
[14:14:58] tiniahouse says: who does that - we're getting there ..
[14:15:06] Dan Gheorghiu says: media plug-in
[14:15:09] tiniahouse says: script, plugin ?
[14:15:35] tiniahouse says: what script is started when squeezebox is detected ?
[14:15:56] Dan Gheorghiu says: so, first create device (script) is called then the media plug-in does the rest
[14:16:08] Dan Gheorghiu says: create device
[14:16:22] Dan Gheorghiu says: i think is in /usr/pluto/bin
[14:16:28] tiniahouse says: aha, if I create device with squeezebox player template, then media plugin does the job...
[14:16:49] tiniahouse says: am I right ?
[14:17:33] Dan Gheorghiu says: i'm not very sure, but i think so
[14:18:04] tiniahouse says: ok, so my solution is to tell Media plugin to do the same on Xine_Audio only player or any device that would be of some category....
[14:19:02] tiniahouse says: ok, can I aks you for further explanation (I don't have such devices).... What if you add some real HW CD player or receiver....
[14:19:21] tiniahouse says: does same happens - Media plugin creates new entertainment area, adds scenarios ?
[14:21:30] Dan Gheorghiu says: yes, for a denon dvd, media plug in creates a new media scenario
[14:21:47] tiniahouse says: so pretty same...
[14:22:16] tiniahouse says: do you have any clue where in Media plugin could I find the code that does that (last time I browsed - it was quite huge code)....
[14:22:30] Dan Gheorghiu says: but it's different because, the new device (denon dvd) is assigned to an existing entertainment area
[14:22:43] Dan Gheorghiu says: the device actually plays the dvd, not pluto
[14:23:16] Dan Gheorghiu says: with squueze box player you pluto creates a slim server which sends the medai stream to device
[14:23:34] tiniahouse says: yes I know, the key is that pluto has somekind of driver device - that registers and does whatever needed further - this is what I'm looking for...
[14:23:58] Dan Gheorghiu says: yeah, that's the idea
[14:25:50] tiniahouse says: any clue where I could find code in Media plugin ?
[14:26:23] Dan Gheorghiu says: no, clueless, i'm not a programmer, sorry
[14:26:37] Dan Gheorghiu says: media plug in was wrote by aaron
[14:26:44] tiniahouse says: also it would be wise if Media plugin would react to category of device, not device itself (if I'd like to add some other player - then just I add it to right category and Media plugin will do the job...)
[14:27:10] tiniahouse says: ok, will dig into Media plugin (and become pluto developer (sweat) )
[14:27:09] Dan Gheorghiu says: reacts to category actually, not to device itself
[14:27:39] tiniahouse says: aha, then I have to add new template of right category and problem will be gone...
