[PLUG] set-top streaming media devices

Rigel Hope gnu at rigelhope.org
Sun Mar 9 19:19:29 UTC 2014


paying additional monies just to access my own server?

the hell you say.

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:11 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> 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
>
>
>
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