The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
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The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
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Re: The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
#2It might be a great protocol, but if it's anything like Apple's other protocols, it'll never make it out of the "reverse-engineered-but-rarely-used" box.
DAAP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Access_Protocol) is a reasonably good protocol for sharing music, but Apple never standardized it, just licensed it to a select number of folks. It made it into nearly every open-source media server and client, but it didn't have a lot of penetration into commercial products. Apple gradually rolled out more-and-more authentication over the protocol to prevent unauthorized clients.
If this sort of protocol is going to be "game-changing", it'll have to be open. Otherwise I don't see it making it big - it'll be stuck in a niche set of products like DAAP.
Re: The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
#3The article is wrong. LTE is way more important -- introduced in 2004.
Re: The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
#4If Apple had any interest in doing so, perhaps. But let's make a huge assumption and agree with Scoble that Windows doesn't matter and Apple is it, could they even produce enough devices even theoretically to make Airplay anything more than another feature Apple accessories businesses check off?
Protocols live and die off ubiquity, and I am not convinced Apple will get that outside of the shrinking dedicated mp3 player industry. And for better or worse, Apple will not let any other company put Airplay in their devices.
Re: The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
#5My Samsung Galaxy S + one of Samsung TV nearby is playing it exactly like that by using much more user friendly protocol stack. Meet UPnP/DLNA. Moreover, right now I am watching a quaterfinal of Heineken Cup by magically streaming video to the TV over the local network. Meet UPnP/DLNA once again.
And there's more! This December I spent a week in Samsung's R&D working with their extension of UPnP that will deliver custom user interfaces for the TVs. They will be like regular javascript enabled web pages with an access to TV's media playing capabilities. No Apple, still.
So I beg you, Apple fans, try to take a broader look before shouting out loud about new killer features 'invented' by Apple.
Re: The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
#6My Samsung Galaxy S + one of Samsung TV nearby is playing it exactly like that by using much more user friendly protocol stack. Meet UPnP/DLNA. Moreover, right now I am watching a quaterfinal of Heineken Cup by magically streaming video to the TV over the local network. Meet UPnP/DLNA once again. And there's more! This December I spent a week in Samsung's R&D working with their extension of UPnP that will deliver cus…
I tried to use UPnP/DLNA to watch videos from my PC on my PS3. After having to search online how to turn it on, I STILL can't get them vids to stream in HD. Only some blocky low-res crap. Streaming MKVs did not work either.
Maybe it's better on Samsung/Samsung combos. It's a great idea, though.
Re: The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
#7My Samsung Galaxy S + one of Samsung TV nearby is playing it exactly like that by using much more user friendly protocol stack. Meet UPnP/DLNA. Moreover, right now I am watching a quaterfinal of Heineken Cup by magically streaming video to the TV over the local network. Meet UPnP/DLNA once again. And there's more! This December I spent a week in Samsung's R&D working with their extension of UPnP that will deliver cus…
I tried to use UPnP/DLNA to watch videos from my PC on my PS3. After having to search online how to turn it on, I STILL can't get them vids to stream in HD. Only some blocky low-res crap. Streaming MKVs did not work either. Maybe it's better on Samsung/Samsung combos. It's a great idea, though.
At the moment I am using Minidlna to serve videos and it works like a charm, even with big resolutions. While trying to find a way to deliver stream to the TV from under Mediatomb, it was required to specify some magical header value. Also DLNA players I worked with were extremely picky about the content type you specify. I.e. sending FullHD .ts stream won't work well unless you say it's video/mpeg.
Anyhow, at the moment opensource is only starting to be curious about something other then writing code and compiling it. Too bad they are doing new stuff kind of wrong (see KDE4 and Gnome3, my two major reasons to use Fluxbox).
Re: The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
#8My Samsung Galaxy S + one of Samsung TV nearby is playing it exactly like that by using much more user friendly protocol stack. Meet UPnP/DLNA. Moreover, right now I am watching a quaterfinal of Heineken Cup by magically streaming video to the TV over the local network. Meet UPnP/DLNA once again. And there's more! This December I spent a week in Samsung's R&D working with their extension of UPnP that will deliver cus…
UPnP/DLNA isn't user-friendly by any definition. Nor is it developer-friendly even.
It is open though, so...
Re: The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
#9My Samsung Galaxy S + one of Samsung TV nearby is playing it exactly like that by using much more user friendly protocol stack. Meet UPnP/DLNA. Moreover, right now I am watching a quaterfinal of Heineken Cup by magically streaming video to the TV over the local network. Meet UPnP/DLNA once again. And there's more! This December I spent a week in Samsung's R&D working with their extension of UPnP that will deliver cus…
UPnP/DLNA isn't user-friendly by any definition. Nor is it developer-friendly even. It is open though, so...
I can't really get how can you speak about UPnP being 'user friendly'? Have you ever tried to think about the same aspect of HTTP or TCP?
Can you please explain what do you mean?
Re: The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay
#10My Samsung Galaxy S + one of Samsung TV nearby is playing it exactly like that by using much more user friendly protocol stack. Meet UPnP/DLNA. Moreover, right now I am watching a quaterfinal of Heineken Cup by magically streaming video to the TV over the local network. Meet UPnP/DLNA once again. And there's more! This December I spent a week in Samsung's R&D working with their extension of UPnP that will deliver cus…
Sorry, but I've tried to use that crap. It is a real PITA to get working, and it stops working for no apparent reason. The implementations are all over the map. Interoperability is horrible. Also, it doesn't have a standard way to just automatically start a video playing from a local to a remote device. It pulls. It doesn't push. So whatever Samsung does to achieve AirPlay-like functionality won't be standard.