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KeystoneCop

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Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
« on: February 28, 2011, 07:12:43 pm »
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Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
« Reply #2 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/ 

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Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2011, 11:11:48 am »
Did you ever get this to work?
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Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2011, 11:15:49 am »
NO  I gave up............
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Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
« Reply #6 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.
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Re: Is there anyway to use Media Center with a standard ROKU
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2011, 12:49:08 am »
Thanks for the post.  I was looking into a Roku box.  Not anymore.
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