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el_wubo
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16 years ago

My Media - Your Music and Video on the Roku DVP

My Media

A simple personal media server and channel for streaming your music, video, and photo collection to your Roku

MyMedia is a "private channel" which means you install it by clicking on a link instead of finding it by browsing through the Roku channel store. The installation of MyMedia is a bit more involved than most of the private channels you encounter because it requires that special software be running on both your Roku (the channel) and your personal computer (the MyMedia server.) Stick with it and soon you'll be listening to your music collection, watching your own movies, and browsing your own photos all streamed to your television through your Roku.

Add the channel to your Roku!

This is the place to ask questions if you have any! You can tell from the length of this thread that quite a few people use MyMedia and they love to help each other out.

You can also check out our wiki and our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Features so far:

* Stream MP3's and WMA's from your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer over your local network to your Roku DVP.

* Music is organized on your Roku using the same directory system you have on your desktop.

* MP3 ID3 tags provide metadata about the music

* Album art is displayed where available.

* Video (See encoding instructions in later posts)

* Uses your existing organization scheme. Just tell it where you keep your Music and Video.

* Music Shuffle / Loop forever

* Playlists

* Photo Browsing

* All open source. Artists, developers, testers, and writers are all welcome to join in and lend a hand to make this the media player we all want it to be.

Enjoy!
-Brian


Stop reading now unless you're interested in installing MyMedia in developer mode instead of using the private channel mechanism

Ok, you're still reading. I guess you want to do things the hard way. MyMedia is an open source project that encourages contributions from the community. As such, we also have a process to help you install MyMedia in developer mode so that you can tweak the channel code and contribute changes back to the community. If you're interested in doing this, follow these instructions:

Download it Here and follow the instructions at that page to get things set up.

Technical development group
http://groups.google.com/group/mymedia-roku-developers/

Main GitHub Page
http://github.com/netguy204/roku_media_server/


EDIT: Moved Video from being a planned feature to being a deployed feature.

EDIT: Added link to developers group.

EDIT: Changed download link to direct link

EDIT: Changed name to My Media (from My Music)

EDIT: Added Mac link, photo browsing is official planned feature now

EDIT: Updated primary links to point at new project page

EDIT: Tips n' hacks link

EDIT: Retooled now that we're a private channel