2013-12-20, 01:44
(2013-12-07, 21:18)PatrickBateman Wrote: This may sound like a bizarre question, but I use this app to control xbmc, and I use powerplayer to play my media from xbmc via upnp.
Is it possible, for this app to communicate with powerplayer, or for the dev to add a upnp facility into this app.
So that when I search my media and control my xbmc from my ipad, I can also chose to play via uPnP?
Generally, no. UPnP is a streaming and browsing service, the mechanism to start playback is very different to xbmc API and RPC calls to start playback. Constellation is a remote, that downloads images.
Power player, has to include a media decoder and streaming handlers to cache video content, and store the files locally, or in the media decoder's working memory/storage, usually ffmpeg. The easy part, relatively, is the GUI and browser to start a stream. What you do after the file is downloaded is the difficult part. Adding a mp3/wav/flac/wma decoder to a remote control /browser sounds like something curious. It's doable, but its a bit much.
Its the difference between a toaster and a remote control. Yes, they both are portable, both use infrared and electricity in their primary mode of operation, but in vastly different ways.