Relay playback to XBMC, Help a rookie with an idea! Options

[mackan2]

I want to make a really simple plugin, but I need some help to get started!

My idea is to make a plugin that relays playback of a file to XBMC. Do do this in the simplest way possible it should only react to pause, stop and play.

When a file starts to play the plugin should get the path and name of the file I want to play, replace stuff like "D:/" to the proper samba path (eg. "smb://MY_COMP/D/") and send it to XBMC by accessing the URL:
http://192.168.0.7/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?comma...meter=file_path

When I hit stop or pause it should send similar commands.

To keep regular playback on my computer for the times I use the computer speakers, I guess a DSP-plugin would do the trick, or can this be done like a general purpose plugin?

The easiest way to do this would be to find a plugin that reacts to play/pause/stop and executes a command via the shell. That way I can use very simple python scripts to execute the 3 commands. Does anyone know of a plugin that works like that?



For those of you who doesn't know what XBMC is:
http://xbmc.org/

[Zao]

This should be trivially doable by implementing play_callback and performing the relevant actions in the assorted member functions of it.
The HTTP request should be somewhat easy to do with WinInet, curl or some other API.

[mackan2]

OK, started today and the first version is now done. Did it in c++, as a general purpose plug-in as described in my first post. I even got the seek function working!

I'll make it available when I have fixed a settings dialog... If anyone wants it...

BTW; a few more examples would be great!