Generic plugin wrapper
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:25 amHi.
We are continously fighting against the big media companies to make the content that we probably already pay for available on the renderer of our choice. The media distributors are forced by the media owners to disable consumption of the content on a per renderer type basis. I know from inside source that this is the case for the Swedish Television - SVT Play. It's a continous fight by developers on each side to make plugins to work vs make plugins to fale. It's not a matter of keeping up with technology changes, it's simply a fight over the right to watch media on a renderer of our choice vs their choice.
Currently I have 4 media servers installed to be able to chose the one which for the moment has a working plugin for a particular content. Serviio is my favorit one because of its stability and simplicity, but I need the others as well. From a content point of view, I find no one better than the other.
I would like to make a proposal of cooperation between media server communities to consider cooperation on the plugin side. This would ideally be based on a common plugin framework, but maybe this would be an utopia. However, an open minded agreement to help each others to develop wrappers between the plugins, or possbly adapters to different parsing engines could be a way forward. As lowest ambition, I recommend us to develop the wrappers within the Serviio community.
Without this, we will never win the fight!
Pen
We are continously fighting against the big media companies to make the content that we probably already pay for available on the renderer of our choice. The media distributors are forced by the media owners to disable consumption of the content on a per renderer type basis. I know from inside source that this is the case for the Swedish Television - SVT Play. It's a continous fight by developers on each side to make plugins to work vs make plugins to fale. It's not a matter of keeping up with technology changes, it's simply a fight over the right to watch media on a renderer of our choice vs their choice.
Currently I have 4 media servers installed to be able to chose the one which for the moment has a working plugin for a particular content. Serviio is my favorit one because of its stability and simplicity, but I need the others as well. From a content point of view, I find no one better than the other.
I would like to make a proposal of cooperation between media server communities to consider cooperation on the plugin side. This would ideally be based on a common plugin framework, but maybe this would be an utopia. However, an open minded agreement to help each others to develop wrappers between the plugins, or possbly adapters to different parsing engines could be a way forward. As lowest ambition, I recommend us to develop the wrappers within the Serviio community.
Without this, we will never win the fight!
Pen