Organized Local Streaming Development?
It is clear from reading the documentation and reviewing the discussion groups that developing a package which will allow people to stream from a local source will take a lot of doing. Is there a...
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But using LAMP it would be very straight forward. There are single file installations of Apache, Mysql, PHP for all Operating systems, then you would have a package that installs the PHP scripts into the root of the webserver. The first time you launch the website from a browser it would have you run through a quick setup routine to setup the db schema, and point the indexer to the video share. The idea is that you would not have to be a computer genius to install it.
And if the source code is released under Apache GPL then you could package the entire project (apache, Mysql, php, and videolibrary) in a single executable (as long all source code is provided.)
I may start to work on this over the next couple weeks, it should be straight forward, obviously the hard part is setting up the indexing script, and finding a way to keep track of all your video files, but creating the XML files that the roku can parse should be simple.
And if the source code is released under Apache GPL then you could package the entire project (apache, Mysql, php, and videolibrary) in a single executable (as long all source code is provided.)
I may start to work on this over the next couple weeks, it should be straight forward, obviously the hard part is setting up the indexing script, and finding a way to keep track of all your video files, but creating the XML files that the roku can parse should be simple.
