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bgrill27

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Opensource Ipod Prog.- Portable?
« on: July 31, 2004, 03:51:00 PM »
This program basically allows you to share music from your ipod to any pc. Its coded in VB and is open source- is it portable? The source code as well as other info is avaliable here. Alas- I have no programming experience- but I'm sure this would be an awesome program for the xbox.


EDIT: would any integration into XBMC be possible?
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heinrich

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Opensource Ipod Prog.- Portable?
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2004, 04:42:00 PM »
"portable" - no, xbox apps are written in c/c++, and doesnt the ipod only use firewire? (which the xbox lacks).
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muerte

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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2004, 05:53:00 PM »
QUOTE (heinrich @ Jul 31 2004, 06:45 PM)
"portable" - no, xbox apps are written in c/c++, and doesnt the ipod only use firewire? (which the xbox lacks).

no, it can use usb 1 or 2 as well (with the right cable).  And yes, this could be portable, as VB is a dumbed down VC++.  You just need to bring this to the XBMC team's attention, JayDee... where are you?
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heinrich

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« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2004, 06:33:00 AM »
edit: not gunna bother..
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Brouhaha

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« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2004, 09:11:00 AM »
QUOTE (muerte @ Jul 31 2004, 08:56 PM)
And yes, this could be portable, as VB is a dumbed down VC++.

VB is dumber than C++ indeed. But there is no such thing as porting from different languages. VB -> C++ is translation, which means -> complete rewrite, which means -> 0% of code re-used...

Finally, VB synthax, and most of all, dependencies, has NOTHING to do with C/C++.  VB is interpreted whereas C/C++ is fully compiled...
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fghjj

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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2004, 09:23:00 AM »
The link in the firstpost is dead :|

That VB script probably doesn't address hardware directly. It still requires some intermediate driver to interact with the device.

Now I heard that the iPod uses USB mass storage driver, which is already in Xbox libs/kernel (for memcards). I have no idea if this can be used.

If not, I fear the worst for your idea. It would involve writing USB driver code which comes close to writing your own OS.
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bgrill27

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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2004, 01:29:00 PM »
Seems like its unportable. It would be great to access songs on the ipod while its hooked up to a computer on the same network on the xbox- it'd be a pain to have to hook up the ipod directly to the xbox- through a 1.1 connection- accessing it through a network would be a lot better. I know that the new daap streaming in xmbc can play songs in the itunes library- but not from the ipod. Is there any solution? I have Anapod- a third party software solution- and it streams http:- I have not been able to get this stream to work with the xbox. Any suggestions?
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gerencher

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« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2005, 10:58:00 PM »
I think the goal here is to dock you ipod to your PC or home server, open up XBMC, and then stream video/music from the ipod throulg the PC and into XBMC.  

At least that is whit I would like to do with it!!!    pop.gif
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