[PLUG] set-top streaming media devices

[Ronald Bynoe]

Then write it yourself?
On Mar 9, 2014 12:19 PM, "Rigel Hope" <gnu at rigelhope.org> 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 <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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