MVPServer

What is it?

MVPServer is the an alternate server for the MediaMVP.

The server core is written using the core library from vdr-mediamvp, but the user interface is written using an embeded python interpreter.

VDR integration is performed by a version of vdrpylib and streamdev to provide live streams.

MVPServer is currently under development, but it's still usable, advantages over vdr-mediamvp include:

• Much, much prettier!
• Easily extensible - no more having to stop VDR to do a tweak!
• No client disconnections whilst waiting to retrieve (slow) media lists.
• Much improved picture viewing.
• Separation of TV and radio channels.
• Support for recent Hauppauge dongles.
• An alpha-blended OSD is (just about) available.
• Support for the large Hauppauge remote.
• Per Mediamvp customisation possible.
• Modular media providers.
• Built in servers for booting MVPs.

News

First and last release.

28.6.2006

Web page shuffle around.

12.6.2005
Things that are going on/have happened recently:

MVPserver should now be able to provide a dongle.bin to any MVPs about the place, you'll still need a bog-standard dhcp server to give it an IP address though, but the one on your broadband router should do the trick!

Ian has built a java client to connect to the server and view the interface in a platform independent way, this can be served up by MVPserver's built in HTTP interface. The source code is in the mvpviewer directory up on CVS, alternatively you can download a compiled version from sourceforge. The client can also connect to the Hauppauge supplied software should you wish!

Mark is currently playing with the media streaming framework to well, create an easily extensible framework with the eventual aim of supporting transcoding in an integrated manner.

I'm doing my best (as usual) to break things! I'm changing the skin slightly to make configuration a bit easier and few other things.

Screenshots

Since MVPserver allows a nice looking gui to be written, they've been placed on the Screenshots page.

Downloads

Available from the Sourceforge page

MVPServer depends on some external projects: libevent (>= 1.1), ImageMagick, Python, SDL (optional), libid3tag, Python Imaging Library, mplayer/mencoder (optional), xine (optional), Python id3lib.

If you want to have your server on a different subnet to the mediamvp, then compile mvprelay for your router architecture. Or if you've got a quick connection, connection to a server on the internet.

Future Plans

• None. (mvpvdr is the future)

Credits

MVPServer has/is been/being written by Dominic Morris, Dave Kelly, Ian Cass, Mark Hartigan-Davies