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Collection of sample channels for side-loading on your Roku device
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Roku channel set up question #60

Open salcedocharlotte opened 1 year ago

salcedocharlotte commented 1 year ago

I want to create my own Roku channel, I have already set developer mode on Roku and created a developer Roku account, I understand creating the JSON file is needed, but where do we host the videos? And how are they encoded? Can we use a call function to call videos from different sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, rumble on certain categories? If I have unlimited storage on Google Workspace can I use that and link it to the JSON file, if so how do I do that?

I'm a web designer and have some programming knowledge, I am trying to learn on my own by creating interesting projects if Im asking to noob of a question could you recommend a book on setting this up?

VenomousMinds commented 12 months ago

Hopefully you've figured it out by now, but in case anyone comes by with the same question, this page might help: https://developer.roku.com/en-gb/docs/direct-publisher/getting-started/video-hosting.md

To answer though, yes, you are to link your videos from an external hosting site. Personally, I prefer DailyMotion or just straight up YouTube. I have no clue about the other questions you asked. I'm stuck on a different part and it's really irritating. Looks like there isn't a lot of helpful discussion in here either.