Hi, go fuck yourself. *plonk*
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:03 PM, King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
