Roku Developer Program

[krishnaphani]

Hello all ,

As I told earlier I am planning to setup my Roku channel ( free to air) , I got over hurdle of getting GENKEY ( thanks to the forum people answer ) . I am back with new request . After getting the GENKEY , I have my content ready , I need to upload my data ( my pictures and Videos ) on to a server right ? I am looking for suggestion for website that provides good webspace that's is compatible with ROKU public channel ( I was doing google and there are ton's of pages but not sure which one is good ) . To play around I still have Very Very limited budget .

thanks for your time and help
thanks
Krishna

[destruk]

Even an FTP would be compatible with roku. As long as you can serve files, then you're good to go - there's no web hosting provider I've heard of that won't work...

[krishnaphani]

Hello Destruk ,

I am so sorry for asking you so naive questions. I am not a tech guy . I am not sure what you mean by JUST FTP ( file transfer protocol ) . Can you please give me an example of domain ( like godaddy , or is there a site that you recommend ) . If you have any site in mind that can help me please.

thanks
k

[destruk]

All the Roku really needs is the media file (MP4/MP3) and the index files/xml/txt, and thumbnails/graphics (PNG/JPG) to list the information for your channel.
You don't have to set up an entire database server, web hosting, and file storage interface with billing or anything else to get a basic non-linking channel going - you just need to be able to stick those files somewhere and be able to retrieve them.
If your server comes with an http interface already setup, then you should be able to set it up for anonymous access and you're good to go.
If you can't or don't want anonymous access to your files, then you would still need to create and send the headers for authentication to get the files for a roku client.
As it is, web hosting is so dang cheap - it's splitting hairs to choose a single format over another.
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[RokuJoel]

Generally speaking, it is best to use a cloud based service like Amazon because it can scale up if you get more users than you expected, people trying to do this with a single server solution generally create a poor user experience where the channel frequently buffers slowly and re-buffers frequently.

- Joel

[belltown]

Perhaps this post will be of some help: http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=34726