thanks for your helpful suggestion!
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Ronald Bynoe <[email protected]> wrote: > Then write it yourself? > On Mar 9, 2014 12:19 PM, "Rigel Hope" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
