Roku Developer Program

[renojim]

It adds a small border to account for overscan issues that some TVs have (so the picture isn't clipped). It's more of a problem with SDTVs, but some HDTVs have the problem as well. I had thought about making the amount of overscan be one of the settings. I pretty much only use fairly old SDTVs and it's practically perfect on my TVs (imagine that). I'll have to take a look at it on an HDTV and see how it looks.

-JT

[athirukk]

"renojim" wrote:
#1 - I use the command line version of HandBrake, so I'm not real sure how to match the settings for the GUI. My command line is pretty simple:

HandBrakeCLI -i filetoconvert.xxx -o filename.m4v -O -r 29.97 -e x264 -S <size in megabytes of the input file>

The -S parameter keeps the converted file size about the same as the original size. I'm not real particular about quality. To get a faster conversion you can omit the "-e x264" parameter which uses the ffmpeg codec, but I've had better results with the H.264 codec. I've used this for countless files and I'd say better than 90% play without any problems. Every once in a while I get a problem file, but I've never figured out what causes it. I usually just use Format Factory when that happens.

You might also want to check out this thread about an alternative to HandBrake. I tried it once and it worked, but I'm set in my ways and will continue to use HandBrake.

#2 - I think you're just at the stage of browsing photos, right? You're just looking at the thumbnails. Click on one to start a slide show.

-JT

Cool, this worked perfectly, with little loss of quality in video, audio was good and in synch.
Thanks JT for the command line and this time I used Ubuntu to run HB instead of XP. XP HB GUI mode took longer time to convert to .m4v and eventually it didnt run in Roku. May be I was missing some settings...But when I used the cmd line in Maverick, it was just under 2 hrs to convert a ~700MB .mkv to .m4v

@Timmy: I will try your settings in HB GUI and see how it goes....

[Timmy_Likes_to_]

Yeah let me know if you like the settings.

It took me awhile to hone in on size/quality. I was satisfied enough to go with that.

[tduckman]

Just installed mymedia netguy204-roku_media_server-d65dec6. On a linux server and have run into a problem. I can go to the internal web page and can see my video files just fine but when I try and launch the video it displays retrieving for about 1 second then went back to the listing. I was able to watch the videos on my roku a few days ago just fine. Check all settings and everything checks out?

Thank you
tduckman

[renojim]

Where did you get that version? I believe that's quite out of date. Try this one.

-JT

[tduckman]

I went to http://netguy204.github.com/roku_media_server/ and selected the tar ball. Thank you for the link. All is working extremely well now!

Thank you
tduckman

[lhite]

i've been trying to add the MyMedia channel for the last several days with no luck at all. i can add the channel OK, it shows up in my Roku channels, and when i go to that channel i get a registration code. i can then go to the rokumm.appspot.com page and enter the code, but that's where i hit a brick wall. there's never any indication that the code was accepted, or that the registration was completed, and when i start the MyMedia.bat file on my "server", i get the message "server has not completed registration".

other than this problem, the Roku box is running fine on all the other channels i have.

any suggestions?

lee

[athirukk]

Jump to this post by renojim

viewtopic.php?f=28&t=25955&p=243064&hilit=regid#p243064

It looks like the rokumm website has got some issues and I have experienced the same issue and modified the config.ini file by adding "regid = <code>" and it worked like a charm!

Try and let me know.

[lhite]

excellent -- that did it! i saw that suggestion before and tried it but it didn't help -- but for some reason, it finally kicked in this time.

thanks.

lee

[HimSigung]

Greetings. I've been using MyMedia to play my extensive movie collection for a good while now. I was wondering if there was a way to remove the first set of folders (mymusic, mystreams, nowplaying) from ever showing up. I use the app specifically to watch movies and would like to reduce the unnecessary step of loading it up then clicking on myvideos. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.