Last month my gf and I were house sitting for a friend who happened to have a roku device connected to his television.
I used plex ( http://plex.tv ) to stream videos I had on my hardrive to the roku device. This required adding the Plex "channel" to the device via the channels browser. After the connection between the roku and the plex server was configured I was able to stream 1080p video to the TV from my laptop. There was a learning curve around getting the indexing engine on the laptop to notice new videos, but after that all appeared to fall in line. I used a Mythbox a few years back as a PVR (with a tv tuner card) and I always enjoyed that experience. Perhaps libre firmware for the roku will become available and we'll be able to hack on the roku hardware some and make the TV in that setup just the viewing portal of a central server (I'm excited to setup a freenas home backup and media server tp serve this function for the tv and all other thin clients). Or perhaps there's a raspberrypi or beaglebone setup that should be considered. Looks like someone's already there: http://www.rasplex.com/ Benjamin Foote Linux System Administration and Development 503-313-5379 [email protected] http://bnf.net @bnf On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Rigel Hope <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
