Navi-X on SageTV?

[nebulink]

Is it possible to get Navi-X running on SageTV HD-300 extenders?

[djxkape]

yeah i was wondering the same thing can a plugin be made to run on SageTV V7 ?

[nebulink]

I purchased a boxee box and added Navi-X and it works great. To me, this would be the perfect solution for online content if it could get added to the HD-300. Even if it was in stand-alone mode.

Any developers have the interest in adding it? Or is it even possible? An HD-300 is cheaper than a boxee box.

[tonysathre]

This would be an awesome addition.

[nebulink]

I am surprise that there is not more discussion on this? Maybe people are not familiar enough with Navi-X to understand how the HD-300 would benefit from it.

[GKusnick]

From the Navi-X FAQ:

We also are always looking to put a flavor of Navi-X on any platform we possibly can.

So maybe they're the ones you ought to be asking.

[nebulink]

Here's a thread at Navi-x that shows that IronBill would be willing to help get NaviX integrated into SageTV.
http://navix.turner3d.net/forums/?ac...ic_view&id=974

I wonder if Plucky would be interested in assisting?

[nebulink]

ironbill from Navi-X is willing to assist any developer here to integrate Navi-X into SageTV.

Navi-X supports Netflix and many many more online content. I personally love the content provided with Navi-X via the Boxee Box but it would be even better if it was available via my HD-300.

Hopefully someone here will be willing to work with IronBill to see if it is even possible.

[nebulink]

Here's a thread at Navi-X showing that a couple developers there would be willing to help a java developer here in integrating there app into sagetv.
http://navix.turner3d.net/forums/?ac...ic_view&id=974

Any takers?

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by nebulink

Here's a thread at Navi-x that shows that IronBill would be willing to help get NaviX integrated into SageTV.
http://navix.turner3d.net/forums/?ac...ic_view&id=974

I wonder if Plucky would be interested in assisting?

As if he's not busy enough already.

Gerry

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by gplasky

As if he's not busy enough already.

Gerry

+1. One can only juggle so much...

[nebulink]

OK, agreed. Plucky is busy but there are other great developers here that could take on this project.

[tmiranda]

Do they have a published API?

[iRoNBiLL]

http://navix.turner3d.net/proc_docs/

This is our NIPL API documentation. NIPL= Navi-X Interpreter Processor Language... details on the page. I think you might have to make a free Navi-Xtreme account to read this page... but maybe not.

We are looking for a programmer to join the team and become "Head Developer of Navi-X for SageTV". We recently picked up a dev for Boxee and he is in the process of including really cool features like subtitle integration for streaming content and download capabilities.

I was informed to make "plugins" for SageTV, you have to be a java programmer. If anyone could tell me this is for sure, then we are looking for a java developer here in these forums... otherwise, correct me if I'm wrong please. Thanks.

iRoNBiLL

Team Navi-X
Project Coordinator
www.navi-x.org

[iRoNBiLL]

Hey Folks,

This is Bill Daly a.k.a iRoNBiLL on Team Navi-X! We are currently looking for someone to become "Head Developer of Navi-X for SageTV" and we are turning to the SageTV community for your help!

If you all know of a skilled programmer who would be interested in porting over a project like Navi-X, please reach out to me at xiRoNBiLLx@gmail.com and please let me know! I do not know enough about coding plugins for SageTV to delve in developer lingo, but I'm no noob either so let me know if you are interested please. Thanks!

http://www.navi-x.org
http://navix.turner3d.net

iRoNBiLL

Project Coordinator
Team Navi-X
www.navi-x.org

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by iRoNBiLL

I was informed to make "plugins" for SageTV, you have to be a java programmer. If anyone could tell me this is for sure, then we are looking for a java developer here in these forums... otherwise, correct me if I'm wrong please. Thanks.

Server-side plugins that run in the background are written in Java. Client-side UI mods and skins are built using a SageTV-specific tool called SageTV Studio (see the Studio forum for details). UI mods can call into Java class libraries; if a plugin needs access to non-Java APIs, you'll most likely need to write a Java wrapper for it.

On a side note, can we merge these two Navi-X threads to avoid redundant cross-posting?

[evilpenguin]

Navi-x is is kinda doing the same thing I did for PlayOn, except they're using a plx format instead of podcast formating. All they'd need to do would be to make it generate podcast feeds we're 90% of the way there.

The last 10% is supporting Sage's podcast sub feed type for navigating up/down their tree of content.

Edit 1: Well, it looks like the real hurdle is that a lot of Navi-x's content aren't types that Sage can play. You could make Sage navigate the Navi-x tree, but it wouldn't be able to handle the majority of the content. Sorry

Edit: FYI, Here's how the special podcast feeds are setup for Sage.

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
  <channel> 
    <title><![CDATA[Navi-x Podcast Feed]]></title> 
    <description><![CDATA[Navi-x Podcast Feed]]></description> 
    <language>en-us</language> 
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Navi-x Podcast Feed]]></itunes:summary> 
    <itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Navi-x Podcast Feed]]></itunes:subtitle>
    <item> 
      <title><![CDATA[Navi-Xtreme Media Porta]]></title> 
      <description><![CDATA[Portal Website: http://navix.turner3d.net. Email turner3d@gmail.com for questions and comments.]]></description> 
      <pubDate>2011-06-09</pubDate> 
      <itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Navi-Xtreme Media Porta]]></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:duration>1</itunes:duration>
      <enclosure url="http://navix.turner3d.net/playlist/index.plx" length="1" type="sagetv/subcategory" /> 
      <media:content duration="1" medium="video" fileSize="1" url="http://navix.turner3d.net/playlist/index.plx" type="sagetv/subcategory"> 
       <media:title><![CDATA[Navi-Xtreme Media Portal]]></media:title> 
        <media:description><![CDATA[Portal Website: http://navix.turner3d.net. Email turner3d@gmail.com for questions and comments.]]></media:description> 
        <media:thumbnail url="http://navix.turner3d.net/images/logo.jpg"/> 
      </media:content> 
    </item>
    <item> 
      <title><![CDATA[Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire]]></title> 
      <description><![CDATA[Viciously abused by her mother (a riveting, Oscar-winning Mo'Nique) and pregnant by her father, Harlem teen Precious Jones (Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe) has an unexpected chance at a different life when she enrolls in an alternative school. Teacher Blu Rain (Paula Patton) encourages her, but Precious must battle unimaginable barriers everywhere in her life. Lee Daniels directs this drama that features appearances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz.]]></description> 
      <pubDate>01:49:00 (2009-01-01)</pubDate> 
      <itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Viciously abused by her mother (a riveting, Oscar-winning Mo'Nique) and pregnant by her father, Harlem teen Precious Jones (Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe) has an unexpected chance at a different life when she enrolls in an alternative school. Teacher Blu Rain (Paula Patton) encourages her, but Precious must battle unimaginable barriers everywhere in her life. Lee Daniels directs this drama that features appearances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz.]]></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:duration>02:04:60</itunes:duration>
      <enclosure url="http://127.0.0.1:63478/netflix-09d2bc2b-f230-4f19-a102-213d1c013f27/1-netflix-09d2bc2b-f230-4f19-a102-213d1c013f27.mpg" length="3769656000" type="video/mpeg2" /> 
      <media:content duration="7500" medium="video" fileSize="3769656000" url="http://127.0.0.1:63478/netflix-09d2bc2b-f230-4f19-a102-213d1c013f27/1-netflix-09d2bc2b-f230-4f19-a102-213d1c013f27.mpg" type="video/mpeg2"> 
       <media:title><![CDATA[Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire]]></media:title> 
        <media:description><![CDATA[Viciously abused by her mother (a riveting, Oscar-winning Mo'Nique) and pregnant by her father, Harlem teen Precious Jones (Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe) has an unexpected chance at a different life when she enrolls in an alternative school. Teacher Blu Rain (Paula Patton) encourages her, but Precious must battle unimaginable barriers everywhere in her life. Lee Daniels directs this drama that features appearances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz.]]></media:description> 
        <media:thumbnail url="http://127.0.0.1:63478/netflix-09d2bc2b-f230-4f19-a102-213d1c013f27/1-netflix-09d2bc2b-f230-4f19-a102-213d1c013f27.mpg?albumArt=true"/> 
      </media:content> 
    </item> 
  </channel> 
</rss>

The first <item> is a sub category item, where you just put the path to another podcast feed in the media tag and make its type=sagetv/subcategory.

Then for any <item> that resolves as actual content (picture, music, movie), you can just do a standard podcast <item>.

[iRoNBiLL]

If anyone knows where I can find a list of supported file formats and containers SageTV supports, this would be helpful. I know we pull in all kinds of file formats, but I was under the impression SageTV could play most file formats.

As for the data you see for us in .plx, we already have a multitude of ways to convert our output into XML / RSS... we just haven't flipped the switch yet. We already are integrating native JSON support so we can output it into a Java compatible setup.

Evilpenguin... could you please specify what you mean as far as "most of the content" won't play in SageTV... cause if you are talking about .plx playlists, we have scripts to output this as JSON or XML as necessary. Also... how many media items do you have in your setup for Playon... we have about 92,000 media items.

iRoNBiLL

[evilpenguin]

Basically, if the link resolves to something like....

http:\\someWebServer\movie.mov
http:\\someWebServer\music.mp3
http:\\someWebServer\photo.jpg

Then Sage can play it, the only special case is that it can also handle any Youtube link since does the translation from Youtube link -> download link internally. If you guys could resolved to rtmp links then that would work also.

I shouldn't have said

but it wouldn't be able to handle the majority of the content

I only did a quick glance at your content tree (like 20-30 vs. 92000 ) and the two things I saw for sure that wouldn't work are streaming radio and Apple trailers (need to set the special user agent for downloading).

But i'll have to take a better look at what you guys are doing (which, btw, is pretty cool )to see what Sage could/couldn't handle.

[iRoNBiLL]

Well it's nice to hear if the link resolves to a valid file with an extension, it will play in SageTV. It sounds to me like there is TONS of content that would play just fine in SageTV if it had a Navi-X port!

As for RTMP, YES... we can resolve to the actual content with custom parameter handling and all!

As for streaming radio/video, this is either delivered via RTMP (which we can resolve to via server-side processors) or using customized headers or playback parameters... which our NIPL API already handles via server side.

We are also aware of Apple Trailers and the user agent issue it has... our developer wrote something to get around that some time ago and it works fine ever since...

As a special note... all the heavy lifting is done server side and not the app. The app is more of a basic GUI for viewing lists structured different ways.

SOOO... exactly what is the problem again with putting Navi-X on SageTV... ohh that's right... we need a java dev before we can do it! Sounds like there is a whole lot less to bridge than expected... you probably wouldn't have known this though unless you knew exactly how our setup works and what work we already have under our belts.

Java dev's... get at me please!! xiRoNBiLLx@gmail.com

If there is any other possible obstacle you can point out for us Evilpenguin, we would appreciate this greatly. Thanks again for all your feedback!

iRoNBiLL