I’m wondering with the advancements of projects like “My Media” allowing to stream local/networked content to the Roku if there is a way to somehow integrate TVersity in to enable Hulu watching? I’m not too sure of the details but it seems as if TVersity transcodes the media it provides using something called ffdshow? So maybe if it was possible to somehow make the tversity server available to the roku, it could transcode videos to a format recognized/playable by the roku.
“shshchch” wrote:
I’m wondering with the advancements of projects like “My Media” allowing to stream local/networked content to the Roku if there is a way to somehow integrate TVersity in to enable Hulu watching? I’m not too sure of the details but it seems as if TVersity transcodes the media it provides using something called ffdshow? So maybe if it was possible to somehow make the tversity server available to the roku, it could transcode videos to a format recognized/playable by the roku.
I tried to get the TVersity transcoding to work for the Roku and couldn’t get it to work. I think it’s difficult to transcode to mpeg4/h.264 on the fly.
“KennyJ” wrote:
“shshchch” wrote:
I’m wondering with the advancements of projects like “My Media” allowing to stream local/networked content to the Roku if there is a way to somehow integrate TVersity in to enable Hulu watching? I’m not too sure of the details but it seems as if TVersity transcodes the media it provides using something called ffdshow? So maybe if it was possible to somehow make the tversity server available to the roku, it could transcode videos to a format recognized/playable by the roku.I tried to get the TVersity transcoding to work for the Roku and couldn’t get it to work. I think it’s difficult to transcode to mpeg4/h.264 on the fly.
Did you try transcoding to WMV9? That may be another option.
“mkolby” wrote:
“KennyJ” wrote:
“shshchch” wrote:
I’m wondering with the advancements of projects like “My Media” allowing to stream local/networked content to the Roku if there is a way to somehow integrate TVersity in to enable Hulu watching? I’m not too sure of the details but it seems as if TVersity transcodes the media it provides using something called ffdshow? So maybe if it was possible to somehow make the tversity server available to the roku, it could transcode videos to a format recognized/playable by the roku.I tried to get the TVersity transcoding to work for the Roku and couldn’t get it to work. I think it’s difficult to transcode to mpeg4/h.264 on the fly.
Did you try transcoding to WMV9? That may be another option.
I probably don’t know what I’m doing, but I remember trying to use one of the device presets which included WMV transcoding and I couldn’t get it to work. I’m not that technically inclined. I’d love to see if someone could figure this out.
I was able to successfully use TVersity as a media server though. I played compatible files without a problem.
I’m assuming if it is at all possible, the developer(s) of the My Media channel/project would be able to integrate/use it easiest since it seems to be the closest thing to accessing shared media, i’m just hoping these two technologies can somehow work together, I assume only they or other developers that have released similar projects would know. Or if maybe integration with tversity wasn’t possible, I believe that it is powered by ffdshow as far as converting/transcoding works and there may be more options in that software alone. If there is just a way to somehow link the My Media server to the tversity server, tversity seems to be able to transcode anything into several different formats, sizes, etc. within the settings.
RokuMarkn said they will support http live streaming in next release.
“shshchch” wrote:
I’m assuming if it is at all possible, the developer(s) of the My Media channel/project would be able to integrate/use it easiest since it seems to be the closest thing to accessing shared media, i’m just hoping these two technologies can somehow work together, I assume only they or other developers that have released similar projects would know. Or if maybe integration with tversity wasn’t possible, I believe that it is powered by ffdshow as far as converting/transcoding works and there may be more options in that software alone. If there is just a way to somehow link the My Media server to the tversity server, tversity seems to be able to transcode anything into several different formats, sizes, etc. within the settings.
“rainlake” wrote:
RokuMarkn said they will support http live streaming in next release.“shshchch” wrote:
I’m assuming if it is at all possible, the developer(s) of the My Media channel/project would be able to integrate/use it easiest since it seems to be the closest thing to accessing shared media, i’m just hoping these two technologies can somehow work together, I assume only they or other developers that have released similar projects would know. Or if maybe integration with tversity wasn’t possible, I believe that it is powered by ffdshow as far as converting/transcoding works and there may be more options in that software alone. If there is just a way to somehow link the My Media server to the tversity server, tversity seems to be able to transcode anything into several different formats, sizes, etc. within the settings.
I’m not sure I understand how http live streaming is related or necessary?
http live streaming makes it possible to real transcode with mencoder or ffmpeg
“shshchch” wrote:
“rainlake” wrote:
RokuMarkn said they will support http live streaming in next release.“shshchch” wrote:
I’m assuming if it is at all possible, the developer(s) of the My Media channel/project would be able to integrate/use it easiest since it seems to be the closest thing to accessing shared media, i’m just hoping these two technologies can somehow work together, I assume only they or other developers that have released similar projects would know. Or if maybe integration with tversity wasn’t possible, I believe that it is powered by ffdshow as far as converting/transcoding works and there may be more options in that software alone. If there is just a way to somehow link the My Media server to the tversity server, tversity seems to be able to transcode anything into several different formats, sizes, etc. within the settings.I’m not sure I understand how http live streaming is related or necessary?
Also found this page through the tversity website. Maybe until Roku enables dlna/upnp there is no way of this working, but I have a hard time believing that it’s impossible especially with the workarounds lately to get shared media on the Roku.
“shshchch” wrote:
Maybe until Roku enables dlna/upnp there is no way of this working, but I have a hard time believing that it’s impossible especially with the workarounds lately to get shared media on the Roku.
TVersity already works with Roku.
“KennyJ” wrote:
“shshchch” wrote:
Also found this page through the tversity website:http://wiki.tversity.com/index.php/Addi … o_TVersity
Maybe until Roku enables dlna/upnp there is no way of this working, but I have a hard time believing that it’s impossible especially with the workarounds lately to get shared media on the Roku.
TVersity already works with Roku.
Well it works with the soundbridge/other roku products. But the digital video player? If so how do you get it working? I also found out that tversity also provides web based access via [http://(tversity](http://(tversity) ip):41952 which through there you can also access rss feeds of your media. But anyways please explain how you have it working with the digital video player.
“shshchch” wrote:
“KennyJ” wrote:
“shshchch” wrote:
Also found this page through the tversity website:http://wiki.tversity.com/index.php/Addi … o_TVersity
Maybe until Roku enables dlna/upnp there is no way of this working, but I have a hard time believing that it’s impossible especially with the workarounds lately to get shared media on the Roku.
TVersity already works with Roku.
Well it works with the soundbridge/other roku products. But the digital video player? If so how do you get it working? I also found out that tversity also provides web based access via [http://(tversity](http://(tversity) ip):41952 which through there you can also access rss feeds of your media. But anyways please explain how you have it working with the digital video player.
That’s exactly how. The Roku DVP can access files through HTTP. So with TVersity running you can play music and video files via Roku by using the tversity ip address. Someone on here even built a client to parse the TVersity XML feed and create categories and file links. It worked ok. I’ve also created custom XMLs and played local files through Mediafly using TVersity as the web server.
The only thing I couldn’t get to work was the live trans-coding.
So basically you’re saying it could only be used to access local media that is already able to be played by roku? (meaning that it wouldn’t be able to do much more than my media already does for me?) Do you know where I could find that client you mentioned? I’m not a roku expert or developer, but maybe I could try messing around with it. Although the ability to stream hulu/other sites with live transcoding into formats read by roku would be awethum, at the very least the ability to maybe transcode all of the vob format dvd files I have into a Roku-recognized format would be nice.
now that http live streaming is available, what new capabilities do we have? (crosses fingers for tversity’s hulu to work)
Any advances in possibilities?
I’d love to give transcoding Hulu on the fly with vlc, but I don’t know how to get the url to the actual flv stream. I’d be willing to bet Hulu wouldn’t be too happy about this type of solution.
-JT
“KennyJ” wrote:
“shshchch” wrote:
Well it works with the soundbridge/other roku products. But the digital video player? If so how do you get it working? I also found out that tversity also provides web based access via [http://(tversity](http://(tversity) ip):41952 which through there you can also access rss feeds of your media. But anyways please explain how you have it working with the digital video player.
That’s exactly how. The Roku DVP can access files through HTTP. So with TVersity running you can play music and video files via Roku by using the tversity ip address. Someone on here even built a client to parse the TVersity XML feed and create categories and file links. It worked ok. I’ve also created custom XMLs and played local files through Mediafly using TVersity as the web server.
The only thing I couldn’t get to work was the live trans-coding.
I’m trying to get tversity to work with my new roku dvp too. How do you access the ip address? Is there a Roku channel that you have to use?
“jdub765” wrote:
I’m trying to get tversity to work with my new roku dvp too. How do you access the ip address? Is there a Roku channel that you have to use?
What are you trying to do exactly? You’re not developing a channel, correct? If you put the files in an rss feed you can load them with any of the RSS reader channels: Mediafly, CDNTwo, Sunimi. Though I remember Mediafly being weird about it sometimes.
So you if you created an RSS feed, your enclosure would reference your local ip and file name: http://192.168.1.4:9000/123.mp3 – Then put this out on the net somewhere (dropbox, personal website, etc) – and then add that feed to one of the rss reader channels.
It’s been awhile since I’ve done this, but you can get the link to the file from the TVersity web app.
Just to verify these methods only give access to roku compatible local media and does not enable transcoding/hulu etc, right? So basically same function as my media/roksbox
