I'm not sure if this should be placed under Themes and Apps or here but...
I started a thread a few months ago concerning a proprietary video player that Sony used for their Location Free Player devices. Well...
The software code has now been moved to open source status and is free for full linux development. I'm hoping I can convince one of you savvy developers to whip up the player so it can run on either Android or a full linux OS (I use Ubuntu). I'm sure it's a gold mine for tons of other video streaming applications that could potentially run on our device.
The link to the open source code can be found here along with other Sony open projects.
http://products.sel.sony.com/opensource/
Location Free TV is the program I'm specifically talking about. I believe the current version is LFA-PC30. If you would like to read more on this device/player you can check the wiki at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player
Let me know if anyone has any questions, I very eager to see if this is possible. If I could stream video from my Location Free Player Base I to either my android device or Ubuntu Netbook I would be very very pleased. If a dev is serious I would be more than happy to have them test on my base station. PM or email me if you're interested!
Also, please move to the correct thread if this is in the incorrect area.
As the title says, I heard it was "almost done" like 3 months ago. Anyone hear anything about it?
I have heard that it was almost done a couple of times. People saying that it is a silverlight issue and it will not stream on Linux have obviously never used a ROKU before. It is a linux media center type box that streams Netflix fine. But if you look at the source it says that it contains MS code, etc, etc.
If someone was smart enough they might be able to take the ROKU source and make it work, but it is probably not possible.
Anyway more than likely MS wants to get Netflix streaming on its own platform before Android to help drive sales. Once they feel like letting Google use their code they will try to license it to them. Google may not want to pay this license. Otherwise Google would have to write it from scratch which they are probably trying to do. I have seen several Linux and Android video streaming jobs posted over the last year or so.
Your best bet will probably be Skyfire. If they ever add Silverlight storage then it will probably work. They have even said on thier forums that they know what to-do to make it work but they are not there yet. Lets just hope if they ever make it work Netflix does not block them like Hulu keeps doing.
I have Silverlight for Mac, so I would think MS would not have a problem with a Silverlight for Android - the give the client away to encourage server side development.
There was an article on CNET a few months back that pegged the launch of Silverlight on Android for the Professional Developer Conference in Las Vegas. Hopefully a Netflix app would be released alongside.
Bjd223 said:
I have heard that it was almost done a couple of times. People saying that it is a silverlight issue and it will not stream on Linux have obviously never used a ROKU before. It is a linux media center type box that streams Netflix fine. But if you look at the source it says that it contains MS code, etc, etc.
If someone was smart enough they might be able to take the ROKU source and make it work, but it is probably not possible.
Anyway more than likely MS wants to get Netflix streaming on its own platform before Android to help drive sales. Once they feel like letting Google use their code they will try to license it to them. Google may not want to pay this license. Otherwise Google would have to write it from scratch which they are probably trying to do. I have seen several Linux and Android video streaming jobs posted over the last year or so.
Your best bet will probably be Skyfire. If they ever add Silverlight storage then it will probably work. They have even said on thier forums that they know what to-do to make it work but they are not there yet. Lets just hope if they ever make it work Netflix does not block them like Hulu keeps doing.
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silverlight for android was already announced, or if you're real impatient, we can move to something more open-source friendly like Moonlight
There is a Netflix streaming app for iOS, which is also linux based I believe. So I don't know that this is the issue.
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There is a Netflix streaming app for iOS, which is also linux based I believe. So I don't know that this is the issue.
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iOS is not linux based. it is BSD (which is a *NIX-like environment) based, just like OS X and Darwin. development may be similar, but won't be the same (which is why you can't just run an OS X application on linux). silverlight for mac already existed for a while, meaning MS already had development of a BSD version of silverlight that could be ported over to iOS in a similar fashion.
and while it's been shown that some tools can work cross-platform between iOS and android (look at the modifications to flash for android for iOS to get Frash), that was a framework/plugin that was very buggy at best.
to the best of my knowledge, there is no TRUE port of silverlight for linux based systems. the closest we have is the moonlight open source project (incorporated with the Mono project, open source version of .NET for linux). I haven't used Netflix on either the iPad or iPhone, so I can't say for certain if they even USE silverlight in those platforms. They may have just encoded everything as variable bit-rate mp4's which are compatible on almost every smartphone and the application is just a front-end to tie to your account for DRM purposes.
Has anyone or could anyone develop a Sky Go APK. It is in the Google play store but it is not compatible with my device.
I cannot access the online version as I need silverlight for my KFHD, so is there a way to get silverlight?
Thanks.
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Hello there everybody.
Can someone tell me how do I can change the application be supported (only) for Mobile devices. When I upload it to play store it requires me to upload 7" tablet's screenshot as well as TV etc.
How I can skip these things and enable it only for Mobile device? Notice that I am not a familiar with Android Studio.
Thank you!