You already bought a Roku, so what's another 10 bucks to access your media? Obviously upi didn't read the "fine print" on the Roku specifications - its a closed proprietary box. Besides, you are coughing up $$ for netflix, et al. so stop being such a damn cheapskate. If you don't what to pay for decent software that supports Linux, then sell the Roku, and build your own HTPC with MythTV or XBMc, etc.
[OT] Linux might be F/OSS but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to support the devs is some way - the have to eat too. If Linux users weren't such cheap ass sponges, M$ would have been relegated to the dust bin of history long ago [OT] On 03/09/2014 12:30 PM, Rigel Hope wrote: > 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
