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Beaglebone Media Center

By : David Lewin
Book Image

Beaglebone Media Center

By: David Lewin

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
BeagleBone Media Center
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Ideas to Improve Your Server
Index

Chapter 4. Getting Your Own Video and Feeds

"One server to satisfy them all" could have been the name of this chapter. We now have a great media server where we can share any media, but we would like to be more independent so that we can choose the functionalities the server can have. The goal of this chapter is to let you cross the bridge, where you are going to increase your knowledge by getting your hands dirty. After all, you want to build your own services, so why not create your own contents as well.

More specifically, here we will begin by building a webcam streaming service from scratch, and we will see how this can interact with what we have implemented previously in the server. We will also see how to set up a service to retrieve RSS feeds. We will discuss the services in the following sections:

  • Installing and running MJPG-Streamer

  • Detecting the hardware device and installing drivers and libraries for a webcam

  • Configuring RSS feeds with Leed