Side Loaded Videoplayer problems
I downloaded the SDK, edited the video player example and uploaded it via the address provided by the roku box in developer mode. I used telnet on my mac to connect to the roku over the 8085 port. ...
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Ok I found out my problem and the solution. I am going to post it here for others who might be experiencing the same problem. Hopefully the rest of the development community is not as dumb as me...but just in case I want to contribute. It took me several hours to figure this out.
1. when you zip your source folder you cannot zip the entire folder. For example if your folder is my channel/source, if you select the "my channel" folder and zip it, it actually creates a zip that is "my channel.zip/my channel/source". The roku then does not recognize the source folder to run your application.
To fix this when zipping your folder open the channel folder, use command click on mac or shift click on the pc to select all the folders inside the root folder and then compress or zip the files that are inside the root folder. On the mac this creates a zip file named "archive.zip". simply change the name from archive to the name you choose, then side load that zip and your channel will work.
I hope that made sense?
1. when you zip your source folder you cannot zip the entire folder. For example if your folder is my channel/source, if you select the "my channel" folder and zip it, it actually creates a zip that is "my channel.zip/my channel/source". The roku then does not recognize the source folder to run your application.
To fix this when zipping your folder open the channel folder, use command click on mac or shift click on the pc to select all the folders inside the root folder and then compress or zip the files that are inside the root folder. On the mac this creates a zip file named "archive.zip". simply change the name from archive to the name you choose, then side load that zip and your channel will work.
I hope that made sense?
