piPlayer: Personal Interactive Player

PiPlayer stands for Personalised Interactive Player. It is an OSGi-based application that plays personalised local and remote multimedia contents.

piPlayer has been developed at the Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática (DIT) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain.

piPlayer is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, LGPL, for detailed information visit LGPL

The Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) is an independent consortium launched, in 1998, by more than fifty companies in the area of embedded systems, with the aim to develop a series of open specifications for a Java based service platform, able to act as a gateway between Internet and the local area networks that can be found at home, at a car, and other types of constrained environments.

The third release of this specification defines a service platform (an instantiation of a Java virtual machine, an OSGi framework and a set of running services) that includes a minimal component model and a small framework for managing components, including a packaging and delivery format.

• piPlayer stand-alone:
  • for windows
  • for linux
• piPlayer for oscar:
  • for windows
  • for linux
• piPlayer for developers:
  • for windows  
  • for linux  

• How Computer Works (Xvid video - MP3 audio) Gill Pratt course

• The complete documentation, in Spanish, of the Master's Thesis this project was attached to can be downloaded here in PDF format
• The complete presentation, in Spanish, of the Master's Thesis this project was attached to can be downloaded here in PDF format
• Abstract for NAI (New Internet Applications) in Spanish, can be downloaded here in PDF format

stand-alone piPlayer: Use as a normal player

piPlayer for oscar: Use as a personal interactive player:

• Download the application and copy it in root directory (/ or C:\)
• Copy How Computer Works in /piplayer/media
• Install Tomcat + AXIS
• Register ps4pi service (use scripts)
• Run oscar and start piplayer bundle and channel bundle:
  • Run channels: start 5
  • Run piPlayer: start 4
• Other Oscar commands:
  • ps: list bundles
  • start x: run bundle x
  • stop x: stop bundle x
  • uninstall x: uninstall bundle x
  • install url: install bundle
    (i.e. http:/servername/bundle.jar or file:/directory/bundle.jar)
• Login with these credentials:
  • User: root - Password: root
  • User: user1 - Password: user1
  • User: user2 - Password: user2
• Run interactive channels (e.g. How Computer Works)

Please send any comment, suggestion or problem report related to piPlayer using the mailing lists at SourceForge.

piPlayer has been developed in the context of the participation of the Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática (DIT) and of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in the ITEA-OSMOSE project. piPlayer programs and documentation have been created in the Master's Thesis of Boni García in his studies of Telecommunication Engineering at the ETSIT-UPM, (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación)