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pranav-prakash / RokuCast

Cast videos from chrome to roku
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"Play On Roku" as an alternative to the custom channel #7

Closed DrewML closed 7 years ago

DrewML commented 8 years ago

Hey!

To start with, thank you for the work on this extension! I was very happy to find it.

I wanted to point out that you could eliminate the necessity to maintain your own Roku channel for this. The Roku team actually includes a channel built in ("Play On Roku") that developers can use to play video content, without having to create a separate channel. It can be accessed on Roku 2+ devices.

An example post to the device would be:

/input/15985?t=v&u=https://14-lvl3-gcs-pdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/278/6/151394301/464549211.mp4?expires=1452986239&token=01e6cb04e5a360356311f&k=http://yourhostnamehere.com/splash-roku.png&videoName=https://14-lvl3-gcs-pdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/278/6/151394301/464549211.mp4?expires=1452986239&token=01e6cb04e5a360356311f&videoFormat=mp4

Parameters: u - URI of the video videoName - Name to display on the Roku device for the video k - URI to an image to use as a loading screen

It looks like all you might have to do is make a modification here

This is the method that the Connect SDK uses to play videos on Roku.

pranav-prakash commented 8 years ago

Wow nice find — I'll update the code and readme when I get a chance.

Cheers!

Amandysha commented 8 years ago

Amazing! @DrewML I love what you just suggested. Thank you very much. :clap::clap::clap:

Amandysha commented 8 years ago

@pranav-prakash Btw, any plan to update extension to support HLS Streaming (M3U8)? It will be great! :raised_hands: :raised_hands:

pranav-prakash commented 8 years ago

@Amandysha Yes I just added it. Do you have any sample videos to test with?

Amandysha commented 8 years ago

@pranav-prakash I tried send mp4 and m3u8 media from this demo link: http://www.gravlab.com/2013/10/26/example-sample-http-live-streaming-m3u8-embedded-player/ . Mp4 works fine but m3u8 dont work.

Arzte commented 7 years ago

Any update on this?

pranav-prakash commented 7 years ago

@TheDoctorsLife

https://github.com/pranav-prakash/RokuCast/tree/playOnRoku

Try that branch out. Since we removed the need for companion app, the extension should be all you need.

If it works well, I can probably just make that the main branch. You do lose the ability to see cast history though, but I guess that's an acceptable tradeoff.