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Some SnapStream Tidbits of Interest

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Posted by rampy on Feb 10, 2005 - 10:10 PM

My contact at SnapStream [1] sent over a round up of some of the going ons in their labs & in the Beyond Media/TV community:

First, we have a big Valentine's Day special going on right now through Feb
15th. We're offering both Beyond Media and the Firefly Remote Control [2] (full
retail product) for $60 -- this is a $40 savings over the standalone prices
of Beyond Media [3] and Firefly [4].

Now on to the product: a tremendous of work has happened since we launched Beyond Media on December 1st.
1. We launched the Beyond Media SDK
Dowload the Beyond Media SDK [5]

The SDK is broken into two parts:
A) there is detailed information on the Beyond Media skinning architecture
B) there is detailed information on creating application plug-ins for Beyond
Media

We invested a fair bit of work in the SDK so there is a great deal of sample
code and a detailed explanatory help file (CHM) that walks you through
creating a skin or plug-in for Beyond Media. This isn't new, but just a
reminder that there's also a very rich Beyond TV SDK that people have used [6] to do all kinds of cool things [7].

2. New Skins Available in the SSDN
Community development on both skins and plug-ins has really taken off. For
example, check out this TIVO-esque skin that airball created for Beyond TV:
BTVO screenshot [8] full post and download [9]

A host of other skins for Beyond Media: here [10] and here [11]

3. New Plug-ins Available in the SSDN
The most popular community plug-in for Beyond Media, at the moment, is the
DVD library plug-in [12] It's possibly the most powerful DVD/movie viewing front-end available for the PC. It combines movies recorded in BTV with ripped DVDs (VOB or ISO). It has an automatic importer, displays cover art, allows for searching. This plug-in was created by kilrsat.

There are quite a few other new/updated plug-ins from Comics [13] to Stocks [14] to NetRadio [15] to PIN protection [16] of modules.