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Title: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
Post by: KeystoneCop on February 28, 2011, 07:12:43 pm

The subject said all I can ask.

Title: Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
Post by: Listener on March 01, 2011, 12:41:03 pm

What model?

If the Roku can function as a DLNA renderer or player, you may be set.

Bill

Title: Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
Post by: KeystoneCop on March 01, 2011, 01:06:40 pm

The ROKU is an XD

I will try to play with My Media,
A simple personal media server and channel for streaming your music, video, and photo collection to your Roku
http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?t=25955

and this one  http://roksbox.com/home/ 

Thanks for the reply

Title: Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
Post by: gigglez on April 10, 2011, 11:11:48 am

Did you ever get this to work?

Title: Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
Post by: KeystoneCop on April 10, 2011, 11:15:49 am

NO  I gave up............

Title: Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
Post by: DarkPenguin on April 10, 2011, 12:20:14 pm

I couldn't get any of the roku media channels to work.  I just said screw it and went with Pandora when listening via the roku.

Title: Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
Post by: csimon on April 11, 2011, 04:23:57 am

Quote from: KeystoneCop on March 01, 2011, 01:06:40 pm

The ROKU is an XD

I will try to play with My Media,
A simple personal media server and channel for streaming your music, video, and photo collection to your Roku
http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?t=25955

From the link above, it looks like it is able to stream from a "web server", and it gives a guide on how to install something like Apache. I'm not quite sure how this works but I guess you put your media files in the web server's root directory and the folder is then accessible by HTTP, i.e. http://yourservername/mediafiles/music....

In other words, it doesn't use DLNA as its streaming protocol, therefore it won't work with MC.

However, since MC does contain a web server for its WebRemote functionality, you could investigate putting your media files in a subdirectory of the MC web server (the pathname must be discoverable somehow, the path for customisable WebRemote skins is known...) and seeing if you can access those files by http.

Title: Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
Post by: tunetyme on April 14, 2011, 12:49:08 am

Thanks for the post.  I was looking into a Roku box.  Not anymore.