paying additional monies just to access my own server? the hell you say.
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:11 PM, King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/08/2014 03:03 PM, Rigel Hope wrote: >> I bought one of these Roku doohickeys recently, in spite of the >> potential security nightmares i suspect it will eventually cause, >> because others in the home wanted to be able to watch the various pay >> streaming video services on the main screen -- you know the ones, the >> ones with all the DRM nonsense. >> >> Anyway, I was unable to figure out how to stream audio or video from >> my linux box without installing some proprietary closed source >> nonsense ("Plex Media Server" -- the clients are GPL, but the server >> is not, yecch). >> >> There is an SDK that uses some Basic-derived interpreted language >> called BrightScript (conveniently abbreviated BS), but i suspect that >> coding an NFS client in BS is going to be beyond the limits of my >> available time, or ability. >> >> Has anyone run into this problem and found a solution? I was unable to >> find one using the googles. >> >> Thanks in advance. > > Since I "cut the cord", I'm been toying with various mutimedia s/w > (XBMC, MythTV, ...) and poking around the specs of the Chromcast - which > led me to Roku's little copy-cat dongle announced recently. Your post > then brought me here: > > http://wilddtech.com/roksbox/home/ > > Its a one-time pay channel you add to the Roku which will allow > streaming from a local web server, NAS, USB drive (for Roku's with USB > ports), or plain network file share. No plex server BS needed. In > fact, it doesn't look like you need to do anything but configure a > standard Linux box - no added software! (except maybe for > transcoding..). It will even do music and photos. > > As a turn-key solution, it's worth checking out. > > -Ed > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
