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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Just curious, is anyone working toward a channel that could be installed like the other private channels OR is evryone just seeing how they can best get it to work in thier environment?
IMHO, unless the casual user can be given a channel that allows the behind the scene stuff to find their videos, it will not hit the mainstream. I think some sort of editor that will generate the needed parameters for the Roku to look for, then process that similar to Netflix or AVOD.
It would have to install any web server needed to make this function. Otherwise, there are too many similar priced boxes that can do it already. I was really hoping for the Roku type interface to be able to play videos natively (assuming they are in the correct type). For instance, my entire library is done as a MKV container. Each (i own them all) video is titled with the MKV extension.
So is what I was looking forward to, the type of thing that will not be achieved as a whole package on the Roku?
IMHO, unless the casual user can be given a channel that allows the behind the scene stuff to find their videos, it will not hit the mainstream. I think some sort of editor that will generate the needed parameters for the Roku to look for, then process that similar to Netflix or AVOD.
It would have to install any web server needed to make this function. Otherwise, there are too many similar priced boxes that can do it already. I was really hoping for the Roku type interface to be able to play videos natively (assuming they are in the correct type). For instance, my entire library is done as a MKV container. Each (i own them all) video is titled with the MKV extension.
So is what I was looking forward to, the type of thing that will not be achieved as a whole package on the Roku?
