In addition, Roku have an app for Android and iOS. It all works very well, far simply and more consumer-friendly than playing about with Plex or Twonky or the other home streaming solutions. You can scroll through the catalogue, sort it alphabetically, by genre, producer, actor and so on.
#Roku twonky app movie#
Go to your TV, switch to Roku, select the DS Video channel and you'll be presented with an attractive visual catalogue of your videos (see the screenshot above). Related: 7 Best Roku Free Movie Channels for Good Quality Movies. The Video Station application will index your videos by searching for information on the internet, bringing down cover art, actor/actress/director data and so on (it sometimes gets it wrong, though, in which case you can edit it). Load the Synology with your videos (you can rip DVDs using tools such as DVDFab and Handbrake) and let it think about things for a little while. For all versions PC as well as embedded you will need to purchase a license from our online storeto run them beyond the trial period. ENGADGET:M-GO video on-demand movie service launches,streams to PCs,Samsung and Vizio players. To make everything work you need a Synology box of some sort, a Roku box or the Now/Sky variant, the DS Video channel (download from Roku) and the Video Station application installed on the Synology. download play store freeplay store download for androiM-GO is also available as a free download from the Google Play Android app store. And now Synology have released the missing part of the equation - an app or 'channel' for Roku. As Synology boxes are able to serve up media - videos, music, photographs - and the Roku is able to display such things on a TV set, it would seem a perfect match.
#Roku twonky app how to#
There are plenty of examples of how to play video on a Roku in the RokuSDK, the simplest being the simplevideoplayer exmaple.We've mentioned the low-cost Roku TV streamer previously (see here), and we are unashamed fans of the Synology NAS. So your parameters might be "vidurl=" if you wanted to send multiple bit rate videos. Print "launched without input parameters"
Print "This channnel was launched with Launch Parameters!" RoInput is not really well documented, here is an example that demonstrates both roInput and launch parameters (launch parameters are keywords you include in an http POST): function main(params as object)
#Roku twonky app license key#
Please also note that if you are having trouble entering your license key or if it is not saved correctly the workaround is to delete the appdata folder. Here is an Open Source YouTube project referenced in that second thread.Īny unofficial project that plays video's from YouTube is subject to DMCA takedown by YouTube should they decide your project does not fit with their goals. For all versions PC as well as embedded you will need to purchase a license from our online storeto run them beyond the trial period. If you want to play URL's from your device (android/IOS) you would need to run a web server on the device to serve videos to the device. Your channel would then send the URLs to a video playback compoenent which would initiate playback from Youtube or whatever source you send it. In terms of how to do airplay style video playback on Roku, you would use the External Control Protocol to launch a channel with the URLs of the video you wish to play back, or once your channel is launched, us the ECP in combination with the roInput component to send the URL's to your channel. There are discussions on how to extract the mp4 URL from YouTube here and here
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