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Beaglebone Media Center

By : David Lewin
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Beaglebone Media Center

By: David Lewin

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Beaglebone Media Center
David Lewin
Jan, 2015 | 164 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
BeagleBone Media Center
BeagleBone Media Center
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Transforming Your BeagleBone Black into a Media Server
Transforming Your BeagleBone Black into a Media Server
The choice that is not yours
Your server, your rules
Looking at daily scenarios for media usage
Down in the cave is a server without a head – headless servers
Preparing BeagleBone to be a server
Let's get acquainted with our friend – MediaDrop
MediaDrop installation steps
Testing time – "Hello Server"
Switching from development to production
Let's take a walk in our new MediaDrop server
Self-test questions
Summary
2
Media Management, Shares, and Social Activities
Media Management, Shares, and Social Activities
How to use MediaDrop through workflows
Why approvals are required
Publishing your media
Administrator tasks
Exploring different ways to access your media
Self-test questions
Summary
3
Examples of Real-world Situations
Examples of Real-world Situations
Introducing the security role
An everyday use case – a house in Springfield
Second use case – media management in a company
Self-test questions
Summary
4
Getting Your Own Video and Feeds
Getting Your Own Video and Feeds
Detecting the hardware device and installing drivers and libraries for a webcam
Installing and running MJPG-Streamer
Configuring RSS feeds with Leed
Summary
5
Building Your Media Player
Building Your Media Player
Introducing BeagleBone capes
Considering a personal Palm Media player
Installing a system for the expansion board
Using the expansion board with Android
Summary
6
Illuminate Your Imagination with Your Own Projects
Illuminate Your Imagination with Your Own Projects
Presenting the "matrix revolution"
Diving into the software
Summary
Troubleshooting and Tricks to Improve Your Server
Troubleshooting and Tricks to Improve Your Server
Ease your life with the command line
All you need to know about open network ports
Ideas to Improve Your Server
Ideas to Improve Your Server
MiniDLNA
Subsonic
Index
Index

Installing a system for the expansion board

Chipsee provides different operating systems that you can install to start and manage the display. Having a look at these different OSes will help you to choose the one that will fit your project best.

Looking at the available operating systems

Chipsee proposes a wide range of operating systems, which are provided in the following table:

Operating system

Features

Comments

Android

This is versatile and ergonomic and has a large market to offer

This is unsuitable for embedded boards' customization

Debian

This offers rich apps and is documented and open source

The provided version is more desktop- or server-oriented

TI Linux EZSDK

This is vastly documented, good for exploration and learning, and designed for embedded apps

This is not for beginners and has a non-negligible learning curve

We will now look at how to install Android, Debian, and EZSDK and finally see how Android can be used for some multimedia experiences.

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