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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"AngryMan" wrote:"WilDD" wrote:
The ideal solution would be to create a UPnP/DLNA channel. That way, anyone could use their UPnP/DLNA server of choice such as Playon, Tversity, Twonky, etc., and use the Roku DVP as a client. This would be very easy for the average (non technical) person to use.
However, after looking at the SDK, I'm not sure if this is even possible with the tools available.
Any thoughts on this by anyone with more in-depth experience with the SDK?
I've started down this very road: A UPnP channel, using the Roku navigation system to present the containers and items provided.
This will require a SOAP handler to talk to the UPnP server, and some fairly simple XML parsing to come up with a collection of containers and items to display.
Of course, the server will need to transcode to MP4, as has been mentioned in this thread. I prefer MediaTomb, but I hear TVersity is pretty slick for the Windows folks.
Might be do-able.. as time permits, I'll start digging into the guts.
