Cookbook

How can I...?

This section contains a number of examples in a number of different application areas. These are all included in the Kamaelia distribution, but are provided here for convenience. See also the documentation in the older structure.

Last Editted: Patrick, 03 Aug 2007

Linking components together

• PipelinesAndGraphlines
• Pipelines
• Graphlines
• Carousels
• Backplanes
  

Build TCP Based Clients and Servers

• FortuneCookieProtocol
• OggVorbisTCPClientServer
  
• OggVorbisTCPScripts
  

Build Multicast Based Clients and Servers

• MulticastOggVorbisServer
• MulticastOggVorbisClientServerScripts
• SimpleReliableMulticastExample
  

Create UDP Based Systems

• UDPSimplePeerExample
  

Build tools for System Visualisation and Introspection

• IntrospectingASimpleStreamingSystem
• NetworkControllableGraphViewer
• BuildingACustomisedTopologyViewer
  

Build Multimedia Applications

• SimplestPresentationTool
• TopologySlideshowComponent
• TopologyAndSlidesPresentationTool
• SimpleTextTickerDemonstration
  

Working with Open GL

Coming soon! (open GL examples already in subversion here)

Write Games

• SimpleBouncingCatsGame

Work with Audio and Video

• SimplestPossibleDiracVideoPlayer
• DiracVideoEncodeAndDecodeChain
• SimpleStreamerWithPlaylistCapability
• SimpleClientForSavingContentsOfTCPStream

Working with HTTP

• HTTPServer - How can I integrate a web server into my system? This is a relatively low level component, but does form a base for doing lots of interesting things.
• HTTPClient - How can I integrate a web client into my system? How can I deal with RSS feeds?
  

Working with BitTorrent

• SimpleBitTorrentExample

Working with AIM

• Simple AIM client with Pygame

Working with IRC

• IRCClient

Receiving and recording DVB broadcasts

• TransportStreamCapture - how can I capture an entire transport stream? (a DVB multiplex puts multiple channels inside a transport stream)
  
• TransportStreamDemuxer - how can I work with multiple channels from a transport stream? (yes, you can deal with more than one at a time easily :)
  
• SingleChannelTransportStreamCapture - How can I work with a single channel from a transport stream?
  
• RecordNamedChannel - Numbers numbers numbers! I want to record BBC ONE! How can I use named channels ?
  
• PersonalVideoRecorder - How can I record named programmes from a specific channel? (without even specifying the time ? :-)
  

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As an aside, I don't think the rounded boxes idea here was working very well. In theory it was nice, but the actual resulting layout sucked in practice. As a result I've reverted to something more traditional. If anyone has a better idea, please change to that :-) -- Michael, 10 Feb 2007