One too many mornings

Since before we moved office I’ve wanted to put this feature into the decoders. It means we can host files on a ftp and http server and do playlist based serving of content as opposed to streaming. It also allows VoD support to be more of a focus. Now we have a customer or potential customer I’ve finally got round to doing it. The essential part of the coding only took two days. You can now get the decoder to play a playlist of MPEG2 videos. MPEG1 and mp3 will potentially follow. Another thing I want to do now is play from an nfs/smb mount.

Scapa was at long last released to world. The core has been working for a very long time but a complete overhaul of the user interface and the usual feature creep delayed release until the end of the quarter. Almost immediately we have found new bugs which require an urgent fix. One is in my bootloader code trivial but was stopping upgrades from some tftp servers, and not getting ip addresses fr om some dhcp servers. The bootloader now acts completely according to RFC for both protocols. Phew!