Need help with online TV channel project

Hi, I have a question about a project I'm trying to put together. I want a program created that allows you to surf 1000's of online Tv channels. I was thinking of having the GUI for this program created in Visual Basic or Delphi.

The program/app will have menu's for directories of various countries and their coresponding channels in categories such as: News, Sports, Science, Shopping, Music ect. Each video channel will play using Window Media Player or Real player within the GUI it self.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

 

Is that really the best way to make the GUI?

 

I have no idea! I'm not a programmer. What do you suggest?

 

I think you're missing some steps. I would say:

1) Identify sources of video streams
2) Figure out how you will categorize the video streams - this influences everything about your database and GUI design
3) Design a database where you will maintain your library of streams and their categories
4) Design a GUI that allows users to browse/search that database and view the videos

Unless you intend this to be a downloadable Windows app, VB or Delphi won't be good choices. Microsoft .NET will let you use some VB functionality to build web apps, but you need to learn the rest of their web framework and will be limited to .NET hosts. PHP and javascript are probably the most accessible and flexible languages for this kind of site. You could also look at newer web development tools like Ruby on Rails, etc.

This sounds like a huge project. If you're brand new to web development, you might want to start with some simpler ideas so you can learn web programming concepts.

 

You missed the point. I'm not creating the program myself. I am going to hire a freelance programmer. And second this isn't a web based app. It's a client side app.

 

I like this project and I had similiar ideas for a project
I am also a programmer,
Maybe we can collaborate? contact me on msn at kovanic @@@@hotmail.com