XBMC Slingbox Client - Development Status

Bummer

bleze Wrote:Bummer

I wouldn't give up that quickly ... I just need someone to volunteer access to a Pro-HD so we can find out for sure.

Harry

Dude! You rock!
Allow me to subscribe to this thread and become one of the beta testers

gadgetman Wrote:Dude! You rock!
Allow me to subscribe to this thread and become one of the beta testers

Can I ask which device you have?

If you feel comfortable patching and compiling feel free to check out the patch that's already up on trac (http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10464). I'm rewriting a bunch of code but the basics will stay the same.

Or if you're comfortable with sharing the viewer password for your Slingbox and it's setup for internet access, I can do the testing for you.

Thanks,
Harry

Well I won't buy one until they make the iPad app and fix the low bitrate problems, so I guess a lot can happen before that

Harry Muscle Wrote:Can I ask which device you have?

If you feel comfortable patching and compiling feel free to check out the patch that's already up on trac (http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10464). I'm rewriting a bunch of code but the basics will stay the same.

Or if you're comfortable with sharing the viewer password for your Slingbox and it's setup for internet access, I can do the testing for you.

Thanks,
Harry

I think i have the Solo (picked it up from woot.com).

Unfortunately I'm sloppy and slow when i compile stuffs, and i don't have as much time to play with my gadgets lately ;(

Yeah, i can give you access to my slingbox as soon as i get home from this trip.

Cheers.

gadgetman Wrote:I think i have the Solo (picked it up from woot.com).

Unfortunately I'm sloppy and slow when i compile stuffs, and i don't have as much time to play with my gadgets lately ;(

Yeah, i can give you access to my slingbox as soon as i get home from this trip.

Cheers.

Sounds good, just send me a PM with the details (IP, Port, Password) when you get back.

Thanks,
Harry

A little update on what's been happening.

The initial patch was submitted (http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10464) and I got feedback on it from the XBMC devs. I decided to go a little overboard and do a complete rewrite to not only incorporate what the devs suggested but also lots of other changes that will add support for features not initially in the patch, plus lots of code cleanup.

The new patch should be ready in a few more days hopefully. The main things left are to add input switching support (I think I have it figured out, just need to code it). I also would like to add support of getting messages back from the Slingbox with status on which input is selected, which channel, etc.

The biggest hurdle to over come has been enabling support for resolutions over 320x240. I finally reverse engineered things and figured out how to enable higher resolutions, however, the problem is that as soon as you enable these higher resolutions, the Slingbox turns on encryption of the stream. It's nothing heavy duty cause you can still more or less make out what's on the screen, but it's definitely not watchable.

So I'm gonna be looking for help from anyone familiar with codecs and/or decryption to see if we might be able to figure out what they have done to the feed and correct it on our end.

That's about it for all the major stuff, lots of minor stuff, but that's not really worth typing about

Thanks,
Harry

This is amazing, I am very excited to try it out.

This will not work on an original XBOX, right? (I imagine the patch will be put into a build that does not support it)

Also, will this work outside of a local network?

Thanks!

Rollinthundr Wrote:This is amazing, I am very excited to try it out.

This will not work on an original XBOX, right? (I imagine the patch will be put into a build that does not support it)

Also, will this work outside of a local network?

Thanks!

Over here we no longer support or develop anything to do with the original Xbox, but if anyone wants to include this patch in the Xbox build over on Xbmc4xbox they are more than welcome. I personally am not setup to develop for the Xbox.

This will work local or over the internet.

Thanks,
Harry