ose-videolan
v0.1.13
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Open Smart Environment VideoLAN package
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Open Smart Environment - VideoLAN
This package contains entry kinds integrating VideoLAN software into OSE.
It allows the Media player to use VLC as its playback application and DVBlast as its DVB streamer.
See Media player example.
Important links
This package is a part of the OSE suite. For more information, see the following links:
About OSE
Open Smart Environment software is a suite for creating multi-instance applications that work as a single whole. Imagine, for example, a personal mesh running on various devices including HTPCs, phones, tablets, workstations, servers, Raspberry Pis, home automation gadgets, wearables, drones, etc.
OSE software consists of several npm packages: a framework running on Node.js, an HTML5 frontend, extending packages and a set of example applications.
Set-up of current example applications. Here, OSE provides a Media player running on an HTPC that can be controlled by an IR remote through LIRC and is capable of playing streams from a DVB streamer and control devices through GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi
For more information about OSE see the documentation.
Status
- Pre-alpha stage (insecure and buggy)
- Unstable API
- Patchy documentation
- Low test coverage (1 %)
This is not yet a piece of download-and-use software. It is important to understand the basic principles covered by the documentation.
However, this software is successfully and continuously used since end of 2013 in one installation running 7 OSE instances spread over several Raspberries, HTPC and notebook.
Platforms
OSE has the following prerequisites:
- Node.js (>0.12) running on Debian Jessie and Raspbian
- Recent version of Firefox or Chrome browser
Licence
This software is released under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence v3.0 or later.