Free Tools for Roku Content Preparation - Built by Fellow Indie Publisher

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Hey Roku developers,

After 10 years as an independent Roku publisher, I got tired of the manual grunt work we all face: extracting metadata from hundreds of videos, checking if URLs are still live, creating thumbnails, and prepping content for streaming. So I built some automation tools.

Since these solved major pain points for me, I packaged them into “Content Studio Pro” and made the core modules completely free for fellow developers:

Always Free (no limits, no registration):
- Content Analysis - Extract metadata from entire video libraries in seconds
- URL Validation - Bulk test hundreds of streaming URLs simultaneously

Free with Watermarks:

  • Asset creation and HLS streaming prep

Limited Free Trials:

  • Quality enhancement and ad break detection (20 files each)

Real performance: 500+ video analysis in under 30 seconds, 100 thumbnails in 5 seconds.

Mac version available now at https://icreatetv.com (Windows in development).

Anyone else building tools to automate the tedious stuff? Would love to hear what time-savers you’ve created.

Attila

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I’m building a community channel for southern Arizona thus I’m working with numerous people adding content. One of our goals is making sure that everyone who is involved with the creation of content gets paid so we’re also managing payment contracts and back end deals. One of the things I’m considering is using possibly famous ai to dev a phone app to automate the updating of the content feed. I’m also considering combining it with our own SoAzMDB with 4 levels of access, Back end, content creators, cast&crew, audience.