Forum:ScreenPlay Pro Director Released

Hello,

Now that the firmware for Screenplay Director has been released, has anyone tried it on the Screenplay Pro HD?

Am really looking forward for a new interface and YouTube support!!!!!!!!

Really appreciate all the effort the members of this forum are putting.


 * I've looked at the ScreenPlay Director open source, and it does not appear to have a RealTek chip. Not a 1073 or a 1283. So the screenplay director firmware will not work on the ScreenPlay Pro. Our best hope for adapting youtube and such functionality to the ScreenPlay Pro lies with the current generation boxes. That would be the Xtreamer or the Asus OPlay. Although it is highly unlikely that any of these 1073/1283 vendors will release actual source allowing us to add such functionality in. After we get the open source firmware going, we *might* be able to add that in the future. And I think that will largely depend on whether it is the 1073/1283 chip that is decoding the flash video, or if it has a software decoder. Some type of media transcoder like TVersity or PlayOn is probably going to be needed. --JCoug 18:18, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think that Totem GStreamer is abble to play youtube videos without using flash player. Could this be inserted in a future open source player for spphd?--Dante6913


 * How well does Totem decode YouTube videos on a 200 mhz computer? Because that's the equivalent of what you'd be doing.  The main processing power of the ScreenPlay that displays and decodes the videos is written into the RealTek 1282 chip.  Then there's a 200 mhz MIPS processor that accompanies the video chip.  So if the FLV codec isn't built into the realtek chip, then the 200 mhz processor has to handle that...and networking, file streaming, and anything else you have your ScreenPlay doing at the time.  Now I know that my little 266 mhz laptop can't even display web pages at a decent speed, let alone stream video.  That may not be a fair comparison, because from what I understand a 200 mhz mips chip is faster than a 200 mhz intel (at least, that's what I think I read) but even my 466 mhz computer struggled with full screen video coming straight off a CD.  I don't want to discourage anyone who thinks this could work.  But I suspect getting a flash video to decode at a decent speed is going to take figuring out the microcode that is uploaded to the 1282 chip and building the codec there. --JCoug 06:33, March 2, 2010 (UTC)