Dette er tidenes minste BazeField wind-installasjon. En mølle og den produserer ikke engang strøm. Sjekk http://vær.åfoss.no/ for å se selv.

NRK har et kjempestort utvalg av programmet som de legger ut på NRK.no. Desverre er innholdet kun tilgjengelig via deres nettsider ved hjelp av Silverlight og Windows Media Player/ActiveX samt et par offisielle apps for iPhone og Android. Boxee Box spiller av WMV filer uten problemer, men den støtter ikke playeren på nrk.no.

Som en test og en mulig start på noe mer har jeg snekret i sammen en liten app for Boxee som lar deg se dagsrevyen for de siste 14 dagene på Boxee Box.

Appen virker på på Boxee Box og Boxee på Windows (muligens også Mac og Linux, men det har jeg ikke testet).

For å installere må du gjøre som følger:

1. Åpne Apps menyen og velg repositories
2. Legg til følgende repositry: http://dir.codewrench.net/
3. Velg så NRK Dagsrevyen og installer denne

Legg gjerne igjen en kommentar om det virket eller ikke.

What I use:

1. VLC player from http://www.videolan.org
2. Http segmenter from http://www.espend.de
3. A web server capable of serving static content (Apache, IIS or any old web server)
4. A powerful computer. Transcoding video in realtime eats CPU. My Intel Core i7 Q720 (4 x 1.6 GHz) barely manages three streams at a time.

Firstly I use a small script to make VLC fetch the ASF stream and convert it to a new H264 transport-stream. This stream is piped into the http segmenter. The segmenter is responsible for chopping the stream into nice small 10 seconds segments and save them to separate .ts (transport-stream) files. A list of these files are stores in a continuously updated m3u8 playlist file. The playlist contains a list of the 5 latest files each containing about 10-seconds of video. The iPad continuously reloads this file and fetches new .ts chunks and needed. These segments are played back-to-back without gaps thus creating an illusion of viewing a stream.

The first thing you need is to setup the VLC | segmenter pipe. I’ve created a small script that does this.

Click to see full size

Then setup a web server to serve the .ts and .m3u8 file. Make sure to setup the mime-types as specified in the specification from Apple.

If you have an iPad you can open safari and navigate to http://ipad.codewrench.net/ to see a demo. This serves a low-quality stream of NRK1. I don’t own an iPhone 4 so I dont know if it works there as well.

I don’t have the server power nor the bandwidth to serve this to everyone, nor do I probably have the right to. So if you want to watch live TV use this description to setup your own system.

I’ve added everything I use to a bundle archive so you can easily start yourself:
download bundle (28 MB RAR file). It’s pre-setup if you unpack to C:\Streaming\

Just unpack and start “00 start_stream_nrk1.cmd”. Wait a bit and navigate to http://your-computers-ip-or-name/ on the ipad.

• Author: Pål Andreassen
• License: free
• Platform: Windows Vista / Windows 7
• Version 1.0.0
• Download SABnzb+  sidebar gadget

Anyways I noticed they had Widgets/Gadgets for the Yahoo widget system and the Mac OS X, but they had nothing for Windows Sidebar (Vista / Windows 7). So I made a quick port of the Yahoo one for Windows Sidebar.

The Montastic sidebar gadget allows you to keep an eye on your servers from your desktop.

• Author: Pål Andreassen
• License: free
• Platform: Windows Vista / Windows 7
• Version 1.0.0
• Download Montastic sidebar gadget (106.3 kB, 339 downloads)

Main screen

v1.1.0.0
- Fixed shortcut keys (F5, F6, F8 etc)
- Pattern matching for select and deselect of files
- New dialog for storage information and server uptime
- Revamped user interface to match the Home Server Console style

I’ve implemented the two top features you the users had voted for. Click to read more and download.

public enum SortDirection
{
   Ascending, Descending
}

public class ListSorter where T : class
{
  public static List Sort
(
              List listToSort,
              string propertyName,
              SortDirection direction) where P : IComparable
  {
    Type propertyType = typeof (P);
    Type comparableInterface = propertyType.GetInterface("IComparable");

    if (comparableInterface == null)
        throw new Exception("Properties to sort by must be IComparable");

    listToSort.Sort(
        delegate(T x, T y)
            {
              PropertyInfo p1 = x.GetType().GetProperty(propertyName, propertyType);
              PropertyInfo p2 = y.GetType().GetProperty(propertyName, propertyType);

              object p1objvalue = p1.GetValue(x, null);
              object p2objvalue = p2.GetValue(y, null);

              P p1value = (P)p1objvalue;
              P p2value = (P)p2objvalue;

              if (direction == SortDirection.Ascending)
                  return p1value.CompareTo(p2value);
              else
                  return p2value.CompareTo(p1value);
          });

    return listToSort;
  }
}

To sort a list of Person objects by the string property FirstName do the following:

List myUnsortedList = GetPersonsInRandomOrder();
List sortedList =  ListSorter
                                     .Sort(
                                     myUnsortedList,
                                     "FirstName",
                                     SortDirection.Ascending);

To sort a list of Person objects by the int property Age do the following:

List myUnsortedList = GetPersonsInRandomOrder();
List sortedList =  ListSorter
                                     .Sort(
                                     myUnsortedList,
                                     "Age",
                                     SortDirection.Ascending);

If you have the luxury of using .NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5 you can use Linq to solve the problem really quick:

var sortedPersonList = from p in unsortedPersonList
                               orderby p.FirstName
                               select p;

foreach (var person in sortedPersonList)
{
    Console.WriteLine(person.FirstName + " " + person.LastName);
}

Leave a comment to this post if you have any thoughts.

New features:
- Support for removable storage (CD, DVD or USB disks that are not part of the storage pool)
- Support for opening files directly via the Home Server Console (files are opened on your local computer and not the server)
- Lots of bug fixes

I am now asking for feedback from the users about what further functions you would like to see in future versions.

Grab it from http://blog.paks.no/2009/03/29/whs-file-manager-add-in/