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crbolen6201's avatar
crbolen6201
Visitor
9 years ago

Just getting started - HELP!

I honestly have no clue where to start.  I'm not a whiz on coding and have no clue where to even begin with a JSON feed.  My church currently uploads our videos to Vimeo but eventually we would also like to possibly have a live video option from Roku.  I've created a channel within Roku and I can somewhat see it on my paired device but I'm not sure where to go to get my videos uploaded to it.  Can someone please help?

Thanks in advance!
Roku Direct Publisher

4 Replies

  • mediadisconnect's avatar
    mediadisconnect
    Visitor
    9 years ago
    You can host your own with any web hosting provider.  If you choose not to self-host, then Vimeo Pro works.  I used Archive.org for all of my content.  The benefit of using Vimeo Pro is adaptive bitrates.
  • crbolen6201's avatar
    crbolen6201
    Visitor
    9 years ago
    I guess I'm just lost on how to get the Vimeo Pro videos to Roku.  It says I need a FEED URL but not sure where to obtain that through Vimeo.  Thanks for the help!
  • 37mediagroup's avatar
    37mediagroup
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    Click on your Video, then click "Settings". From there's you'll see a list of Basic, Privacy, Collections, Embed etc... click on Video File, and the links will be at the bottom. They should appear something like:

    https://player.vimeo.com/external/21345 ... ile_id=164

    I think on the backend the shorter url (ie vimeo.com/1234567) just redirects to the hard url, which is why vimeo & YT won't work well with Roku. That's what I heard at least.