Re: xPL Readme.txt (more Questions!)

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Tofts wrote:

> > That poses a bit of a problem - in MediaPortal, the file
> > extension is used to determine the file type - and therefore
> > what module to use to play it back.  I'm sure there are many
> > devices out there that support more than one media format -
> > how does the client distinguish them?
>
> Sorry, I should expand on that. The extension will be part of the
message,
> just separate to the filename
>
> Something like
>
> Status=playing, type=mpg, video=my holiday
>
OK, that works for me.

> > Sounds like you have something like a private, internal xPL
network
> > going on in there :-)
>
> Xplrionet worked purely on xpl (e.g. the web interface worked via xpl)
but
> xplmedianet removed the dependency to stay in tune with the 'modular'
> design
>
> But as I couldn't be @rsed to rewrite all the code, I chose a text
array
> items=values and text string item1=value1\nitem2=value2 etc format to
> provide the transport for passing stuff around ;-)
>
He he - nothing wrong in that.  Software engineers have been banging on
about code re-use for years - now it's finally happened ;-)

Mal