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[Icesnake]

I think it was the PIL that was the problem, yes. OK, I am pretty sure I have Python 2.6 stashed here someplace, so that's not an issue.

Can you tell us about any plans for moving to a different github account, so that new releases will be easier?

[renojim]

I haven't decided what I'm going to do. There's so many local media options now that I've wondered about going forwards with this one. I haven't checked out any of the other options because this one does everything I need and more and I will always use this one, but they seem to get a lot of traffic. I'm certainly not going to pay any kind of fee and I doubt any other channel could offer me anything that this was doesn't that's worth paying for.

I'm open to suggestions for anything that should be changed or added. (No iAnything, please).

-JT

[Icesnake]

OK, I installed Python 2.6 and PIL on the new server, copied the folder from the older server, and changed the IP of the server on the client (and in the MyMedia config) and everything is good now.

However, I'm reasonably sure the HTML header on the "My Media" (http://server:8001/feed) page it generates is wrong:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>A Personal Music Feed</title><link>http://192.168.1.107:8001/feed</link><description>My Media</description><theme>media</theme><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:44:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>PyRSS2Gen-1.0.0</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>My Music</title><link>http://192.168.1.107:8001/feed?key=music&amp;dir=.</link><image>http://192.168.1.107:8001/media?res=223%2C200&amp;name=images%2Fmusic_square.jpg&amp;key=client</image><description>Folder</description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://192.168.1.107:8001/feed?key=music&amp;dir=.</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:44:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My Videos</title><link>http://192.168.1.107:8001/feed?key=video&amp;dir=.</link><image>http://192.168.1.107:8001/media?res=223%2C200&amp;name=images%2Fvideos_square.jpg&amp;key=client</image><description>Folder</description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://192.168.1.107:8001/feed?key=video&amp;dir=.</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:44:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My Photos</title><link>http://192.168.1.107:8001/feed?key=photo&amp;dir=.</link><image>http://192.168.1.107:8001/media?res=223%2C200&amp;name=images%2Fphotos_square.jpg&amp;key=client</image><description>Folder</description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://192.168.1.107:8001/feed?key=photo&amp;dir=.</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:44:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My Streams</title><link>http://192.168.1.107:8001/remotes</link><image>http://192.168.1.107:8001/media?res=223%2C200&amp;name=images%2Fstreams_square.jpg&amp;key=client</image><description>Folder</description><guid isPermaLink="false">/remotes</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:44:35 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

That can't be right, can it?

[renojim]

Now you're getting into an area I know little about. I quick search on that results in this explanation:

docs:
A URL that points to the documentation for the format used in the RSS file. It's probably a pointer to this page. It's for people who might stumble across an RSS file on a Web server 25 years from now and wonder what it is.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss

-JT

[Icesnake]

Well, yes, but that's the link entitled "My Media" on that page. It seems to me it should point to something local to the server, not off to the Internet.

[markswoods]

It is a typical RSS feed (standard fare for newsfeeds, podcasts, etc.). The link element is the one you are interested in and it IS local - you can tell by the http://192.168.0.x - that's a private IP address meaning its on your internal network at home.

[rupreckt1553]

Any further development on this? MyMedia is a great project that I use daily to stream my movies to the roku. I would love to see MyMedia using movie art and embedded metadata (year, genre, artwork) to display the available movie icons.

It's a great channel and would love to help.

Thanks,
R

[renojim]

It's one of those things I keep meaning to get back to, but never seem to have the time. Extracting the metadata would have to be done on the server side and that was el.wubo's domain. He's moved on, but if you have any Python experience you're welcome to have a go at it.

Personally, I'd like to finish packaging the client side into a published channel so that putting a box into developer mode isn't necessary. I've already done this for myself, but my personal version has strayed somewhat from the last release. There's also quite a few things I'd like to clean up. I have also been able to use one of the Python-to-exe tools to create a Windows server that doesn't require the user to install Python. I think that would make it much easier for Windows users. Ubuntu and other Linux users probably don't have a problem with Python, and Mac users, well they're probably more interested in iTunes compatibility which I have no interest in whatsoever. If someone else wanted to add it to the server, I'd be ok with it, but that beast of a download will never hit any of my machines.

That's about it. You have all the code, so feel free to have at it.
-JT

[wbmurray]

Anyone else having problems with MyMedia after upgrading the Roku to 2.8? Videos that previously played fine now stop after 1 block on the progress bar. Other channels play fine. I am using a DNS323 NAS for my server. I rebooted the NAS and the ROKU.

When I go to the server RSS feed 10.0.0.151:8001 in my case, the feed looks good and I can access the videos.

Suggestions as to where to look to diagnose? We love our MyMedia and our ROKU!
Thanks!

[renojim]

Yep. Me too. I'm not too happy. I will look into this, but v2.8 seems to have killed myMedia.

-JT