Extend Orb Streaming Media with add-on API

Colin Dunstan · 08-09-2005, 04:00 PM

Remember Orb Streaming Media which had first sounded like a marvelous idea, but then failed - at least in our opinion - due to the use of some proprietary software? Although you are still required to run the Orb Windows application, at least there's now an add-on API (updated: released under a Mozilla Public License) allowing developers to write their own DLL libraries to extend (PDF) Orb's media streaming capabilities.

Well gee, this certainly seems like a good idea. For next, why don't you simply release the tool as open-source?

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ianmccarthy · 08-09-2005, 08:55 PM

... we thought first we'd take a smaller step towards seeing whether anyone's interested in leveraging our platform with this Add-On API, which we just switched to being under the Mozilla Public License.

Think you'll be using the Add-On to make anything, yourself? Some Canadian developer who's been emailing us is writing a TiVo Add-On that's supposed to be ready like tomorrow or something. I'm pretty psyched about it: I almost forked over for a Sling box just because of their KILLER TiVo interface (and their general niftiness), but now I should be good.

Alexander Turcic · 08-09-2005, 10:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ianmccarthy

... we thought first we'd take a smaller step towards seeing whether anyone's interested in leveraging our platform with this Add-On API, which we just switched to being under the Mozilla Public License.

That's a great step forward. Good luck with the add-on and I'll hope a lot of creative minds will come up with new ideas based on Orb to raise the interest in a general open-source version!

08-09-2005, 04:00 PM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Extend Orb Streaming Media with add-on API Remember Orb Streaming Media which had first sounded like a marvelous idea, but then failed - at least in our opinion - due to the use of some proprietary software? Although you are still required to run the Orb Windows application, at least there's now an add-on API (updated: released under a Mozilla Public License) allowing developers to write their own DLL libraries to extend (PDF) Orb's media streaming capabilities. Well gee, this certainly seems like a good idea. For next, why don't you simply release the tool as open-source? [via Downloadsquad]

08-09-2005, 08:55 PM	#2
ianmccarthy Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2005 Device: Nokia 3650	well, we might someday, but... ... we thought first we'd take a smaller step towards seeing whether anyone's interested in leveraging our platform with this Add-On API, which we just switched to being under the Mozilla Public License. Think you'll be using the Add-On to make anything, yourself? Some Canadian developer who's been emailing us is writing a TiVo Add-On that's supposed to be ready like tomorrow or something. I'm pretty psyched about it: I almost forked over for a Sling box just because of their KILLER TiVo interface (and their general niftiness), but now I should be good.

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