Roku Direct Publisher

[Baradanikto]

I have successfully "unlocked" the mystery of using .bif (Trickplay) files with Direct Publisher.  I wrote a Powershell script that creates the images and bif file(s) when given a video file as input.

Requirements: 

• Minimum Windows 7 x64


• Powershell 3.0 or higher.

Usage:

• Create a folder on your pc.


• Download JSON Feed Manager, creating bif files will be automated in the next release.
  
  Please use this thread for any problems or discussions.

[mkammes]

This is fantastic!

Not to complicate things, but a common tool (discovered via the SDK forum) is the free BIF Creator software: http://www.burningbushsoft.com/index-1.html .  I used this exclusively for SDK based channels and the BIF files worked great.  I'm finding they DON'T work for DP channels (which still puzzles me).

I mention this for other folks searching the forums, but ALSO if anyone knows why these BIF files no longer work with the DP channels.

[mkammes]

As an update:

1.  Roku apparently requires both an FHD and HD BIF file to show ANYTHING during RWD and FastFWD....at least with HLS files.  Once I defined FHD and HD BIF files, they showed up....but just defining one does not work.

2  BIF files created with BIF File Maker by Burning Bush software are OK .

[Baradanikto]

To be clear, are you saying that the script did not produce files that work with HLS?

[mkammes]

I ended up re-using the BIF files I created with BIF Video File Creator.  I didn't want to recreate all of the BIF files if I didn't have to. 

I only mentioned HLS as I'm not sure if the video file declaration in the JSON changes the way BIF files work....as HLS, by nature can be 1 of many quality streams (SD and HD), while, say, a single MP4 is stuck at the resolution it is. 

I more posted so folks searching the forums later would have a roadmap.

[Baradanikto]

Thanks for the clarification.  I will, however, change the script to process a folder of video files rather than just one file.  I'll post back when it's done.

[rahulasist]

using .bif (Trickplay) files with Direct Publisher. I wrote a Powershell script that creates the images and bif file(s) when given a video file as input. Requirements: Minimum Windows 7 x64; Powershell 3.0 or higher. Usage: Create a folder on your pc. [/color]

[Baradanikto]

I've updated the script to accept the name of a single video file, or, the path to a folder that contains multiple video files.  When invoking the script, make sure to pass the -verbose flag to see script output.  For example,

.\bifmaker "c:\temp" -verbose

will process the 'c:\temp' folder for all video files.