Development : : HTTP Streamer plugin for Hollywood released
Posted By: softwarefailure. on 2015/9/27 10:27:51
Airsoft Softwair - the hardest work men in code business - are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: The HTTP Streamer. This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to open files stored on HTTP servers as if they were local files. Furthermore, the plugin also supports streaming of audio and video files via HTTP if the AVCodec plugin is installed. This finally makes it possible to do video and audio streaming with Hollywood which opens up a whole new range of possibilities for developers! Once this plugin has been activated, all Hollywood functions that deal with files will "automagically" be able to open files from HTTP sources as if they were stored on a local drive. It just doesn't get any more convenient!

The HTTP Streamer uses a sophisticated multi-threaded design for highly efficient HTTP streaming. Each HTTP connection is managed by a dedicated thread for optimal performance. This means that even when dealing with slower connections, Hollywood itself will never become sluggish or anything as all HTTP I/O runs on dedicated threads.

The HTTP Streamer is the second plugin to bear the Powered by Hollywood 6.0 seal of quality as it utilizes the new file adapter plugin interface and the streaming APIs introduced with Hollywood 6.0. The plugin will not work with older versions of Hollywood. That's why we here at Airsoft Softwair say: Life starts at 6.0. The HTTP Streamer is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal Versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (i386), Windows, Mac OS X (PowerPC and i386), Linux (PowerPC, i386, ARM) and Android are provided.

Please note that video and audio streaming requires at least version 1.3 of the AVCodec plugin.

This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business.
 
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    AFAIK it's on the to do list. Hope it comes soon, because all the really good network functions are only worth half w/o a security layer.

    Topic: the http streamer plug in is definitely good thing which simplifies some things.
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    >> HTTPS?

    > AFAIK it's on the to do list.

    softwarefailure's or phoenixkonsole's?

    http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=96124#forumpost96124


    Edit:

    Apparently, Daniel "Daytona675x" Müßener is doing the actual work:
    http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/comments/292658.html

    [ Edited by Andreas_Wolf On 2015/10/15 9:38 ]
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    My guess is that experienced programmers who know how to use "C" and/or "C++", can combine it embedded within Hollywood programs, or scripts to achieve better speed, on the parts of any program which needs a speed improvement. The versatility of Hollywood makes the creation of simpler parts of any program faster and easier (maybe), assuming that the coder knows how to best use Hollywood and can take advantage of all it has to offer.

    One of the best things about Hollywood, is that it is actively being improved all the time, which is rare in our community. There are only a handful of programs that are updated with new features as often as Hollywood.
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    > "C" and/or "C++" [...] embedded within Hollywood programs

    Can anybody confirm whether this is really possible?
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    Even if it was: reality is that coders hardly switch languages within one program. And Hollywood adresses non-Coders actually to make easy programs that they usually could not do because they do not program C or whatever.
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    > "C" and/or "C++" [...] embedded within Hollywood programs

    Can anybody confirm whether this is really possible?


    It's at least not possible to embed it in an "inline" style. But the plug in system is the way to use more advanced things.
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