Howdy folks!
Happy to hear that you use and enjoy Second Screen. I'd be interested to know what features you most value, and what requests you might have for additions. Can't promise anything, but that sort of feedback is super valuable to us when we're planning upcoming development work.
Hi Mike.
For me, I use the app mostly to quickly find out if I have a specific title in my library or not, as typing is faster than scrolling, and then suibsequently start it. For most other uses, I use the OSD.
What would be really neat, is if you made it able to stream content from the servers to iPad.
I know this is possible if you want to put in the engineering effort.
Right now I'm using a Slingbox to achieve this, which works, but who knows how long the servers are gonna be around.
M suggestion would be, to create a "player," that instead of an HDMI out, has a transcoder built-in, and connects to a central service, that then allows us to stream without port forwarding and whatnot, similarly to a Slingbox. None of this is impossible to achieve, and would really be a value add to your product.
The kicker here though is that I'd want to be able to access both my Encore and Premiere system. If you're adamant about not letting an Strato class product access the Premiere system, you could add an HDMI input on the transcoder/player to take the output of M-Class player.
Or you could design the transcoder as a standalone product, and have people hook up a Strato and an M-Class Player, potentially via the Co-Star or 2 separate inputs on the transcoder device.
The latter is obviously a messier solution, but gives the separation to keep the studios happy, which I presume are the actual real reason Strato players can't access Premiere server content in the first place.
Best regards,
Mike Petersen.