Many of us wonder how we might distribute our films when we make them. Youtube is a good choice, Roku is another.
I got a Roku and within a day I got my own channel running. It wasn't terribly hard. I haven't published it, but it works on my Roku Stick. There is some stuff with monetization that I haven't tested out.
What you need
A Roku Device
A Roku Account
A Server with your video files.(if you want to do tests you can use an Archive.org account)
Sign up for the developers section
https://developer.roku.com/index
Now all you need to do is make your graphics. Which is pretty simple and not hard to figure out. You can use the example pictures and probably get away with making them in Paint. Or whatever graphic program you want. The Roku site tells you the dimensions.
The hard part is the feed. A feed is simply a bunch of URLS with descriptions. Here is an example feed.
https://api.myjson.com/bins/4tu28
The example feed is not terribly readable. I used this address to re-parse the code into a readable state.
http://www.jsonschemavalidator.net/
When you make changes you can upload the feed to the same place as the sample feed. Or your server, however you want to do it.
https://api.myjson.com
My advice is test this feed out and then go through the code and change the URL addresses. Feeds are pretty simple to code.
This is documentation on this.
https://github.com/rokudev/feed-specifications/blob/master/direct-publisher-feed-specification.md
These addresses helped me out
https://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=96670
I have it mostly figured out. If you're working on a Roku page and need help then let me know. I'll try to help. Mainly all I've done is replace the twitch link with a link the Night of the Living Dead. But that's all you really need to do.
I got a Roku and within a day I got my own channel running. It wasn't terribly hard. I haven't published it, but it works on my Roku Stick. There is some stuff with monetization that I haven't tested out.
What you need
A Roku Device
A Roku Account
A Server with your video files.(if you want to do tests you can use an Archive.org account)
Sign up for the developers section
https://developer.roku.com/index
Now all you need to do is make your graphics. Which is pretty simple and not hard to figure out. You can use the example pictures and probably get away with making them in Paint. Or whatever graphic program you want. The Roku site tells you the dimensions.
The hard part is the feed. A feed is simply a bunch of URLS with descriptions. Here is an example feed.
https://api.myjson.com/bins/4tu28
The example feed is not terribly readable. I used this address to re-parse the code into a readable state.
http://www.jsonschemavalidator.net/
When you make changes you can upload the feed to the same place as the sample feed. Or your server, however you want to do it.
https://api.myjson.com
My advice is test this feed out and then go through the code and change the URL addresses. Feeds are pretty simple to code.
This is documentation on this.
https://github.com/rokudev/feed-specifications/blob/master/direct-publisher-feed-specification.md
These addresses helped me out
https://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=96670
I have it mostly figured out. If you're working on a Roku page and need help then let me know. I'll try to help. Mainly all I've done is replace the twitch link with a link the Night of the Living Dead. But that's all you really need to do.
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