A Roku Channel for Channel 9

Are there any Roku users out there?  I love my Roku.

I wish there was a Channel9 Channel for my Roku.  Anybody have any idea to create something like that?

This week on C9 has a podcast, and I hear that the Roku will have support this fall. I don't know how many people subscribe. But, I have to image that if many people did, other shows would get ported. Were you looking for video content or forum content on your device?

-Josh

I've got one that I use for Netflix. I had to go into the secret menu and cap the bandwidth setting because it was being too optimistic  about my max sustained bandwidth and kept stalling to rebuffer. But now it seems to work fine and the quality is good enough.

I'd love a c9 video channel on it.

Duncanma said:

Out of curiousity, I went and signed up for the Roku Developer SDK to see what would be involved... and in the forum, the first thing I see is your post and the reply about using the MP4 feeds...

 

It would be interesting to know what the optimal bitrate/resolution would be for the Roku, as our MP4 files are intended for portable devices and are probably much lower resolution than the device supports. If you can find specs, post them here...

I have the HD box. I think it listed up to 3.0Mbps on the secret menu. By default it tries to autoconfigure the bitrate but I found that it unreliably measured my (unreliable?) 3 MBps DSL and then constantly tried to step down the bitrate, rebuffering each time. I currently have it set to 1.5MBps.

Duncanma said:

Duncanma said:

*snip*

After a bit more digging around, I think the advice you received (that Roku doesn't support WMV so you should use the MP4 files) is not necessarily accurate. I've seen some posts say 'Roku supports WMV playback, but not live streamed WMV' and as far as I know, netflix is sending WMV content to the Roku...

 

 

[update] Yep, it definitely supports WMV ... you should download the SDK and give it a whirl making a 'channel' that displays and lets you pick from our WMV High feed on the home page...  http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS/WMVHigh/Default.aspx

 

I'm a bit busy myself, and I don't have a Roku

I think it's the CDNTwo channel that doesn't support WMV in RSS feeds.

I may have to play with this SDK

@spottedmah:Mediadfly is the "gateway" to RSS feeds.  Add your RSS feeds to Mediafly then go to the Mediafly channel on your Roku box.  I don't have a Roku device, but I have looked into what it takes to bring internet video into these set-top boxes, and I have used Mediafly on my smartphone. I'm waiting to see what the Boxee Box has to offer.