MediaVault
George “walkero” Sokianos
https://github.com/walkero-gr/mediavault/
George Sokianos
Software Engineer
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nickname: walkero nationality: Greek living in: Dublin, Ireland |
Beta tester for:
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Agenda
- What is MediaVault and what can it do
- Development environment and tools
- Challenges and problems I had to solve
- Future plans
What MediaVault is
MediaVault is an open source desktop application for AmigaOS 4, which can be used to discover online audio and video content.
Online audio and video content?
- Radio stations
- Podcasts
- Movies and music from DLNA servers (Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, Emby etc.)
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How it started?
- No Podcast application available
- No support on DLNA servers available
- Better discovery and management of Radio Stations
- My eagerness to learn to code better in C and how things are working in AmigaOS 4
- Clean, easy to read code, with good quality and the best practices, for others to get inspired
- First release at 30th of April, 2021
- 7 releases so far
Demo time
Let’s run MediaVault
Development environment
- X5000/40
- Latest SDK 53.30 + the two updates
- GCC 8
- make
Tools I love to use
- CodeBench by Simon Archer
- CubicIDE by Dietmar Eilert
- SDK Browser by Jamie Krueger
- sgit by Sebastian Bauer
- GitHub
- codacy.com for code quality tests
Libraries used
- jansson.library by Simon Tyrrell
- oo.library by Tuomas Hokka (up to v1.2.1)
- AmiSSL by Jens Maus and contributors (up to v1.2.1)
- libcurl, librtmp, libz and libopenssl ported by Michael Trebilcock (since v1.3.0)
Challenges
There were a few challenges I had to deal with
- Network access with web sockets
- http features of oo.library
- ReAction or MUI?
- “-Wall -Werror -Wwrite-strings -Wextra”
- Understand how things are working, i.e. changing pages from a list
- Amiga vs Unix epoch
- sgit and GitHub
Help from the community
Wow, what a community.
- Contribution by Daniel “trixie” Jedlicka
- os4coding.net
- amigans.net
- wiki.amigaos.net
- IRC channels
Tutorials and Books
A lot of info is available out there
- Jacob Sorber video tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/c/JacobSorber
- Daniel Stenberg video tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielStenberg
- Advanced C Programming Course at https://www.udemy.com/course/advanced-c-programming-course/
- Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days by Bradley L. Jones and Peter G. Aitken
- SDK examples and autodocs
Future plans
- DLNA Media servers support
- SQlite usage for favorites, last watched/listened etc.
- Preferences
- Shoutcast radio support
- Notifications
- Locale support
- AmigaOS 3 port
- Setup CI/CD
What to remember
Easy to develop on Amiga for Amiga
The tools are available
Our community helps a lot
We can create applications that use online sources. Who needs browsers?
Support me
If you like what I am doing, please support me on
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Roman Kargin levellord arisamiga Tim Grooms ktadd Trixie |
SoLiD-SNaKe Thomas Kölsch jabierdlr Skateman Mike Brantley scottcampbell |
Let’s discuss
https://walkero.gr/presentations/amiwest21
https://github.com/walkero-gr/mediavault/
 walkero@gmail.com |
 @gsokianos |
 ko-fi.com/walkero |
 walkero.gr |