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Roku has made official what's been rumored: It wants to go public.
The digital media player maker publicly filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday - the first big step for a company seeking an initial public offering (IPO) of its shares.
The company plans to list shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker "ROKU."
[...] As of June 30, Roku had 15.1 million active accounts on its service, according to the filing. Customers using Roku devices or TV's with its interface streamed 6.7 billion hours of internet video in the first half of 2017 - up 62% from the same period in 2016, the company said in the filing.
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @12:17PM (1 child)
So, is there a simple sample app for serving a channel of your movies to your Roku at home?
Perhaps Python bottle
Hopefully, with the 1:10 voting ratio, the new stock offering won't break Roku with investor weirdness.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday September 03 2017, @12:49PM
The emby media server "channel" is clumsy but works reasonably well. Emby doesn't really understand that it needs to translate iso format into something the roku understands. Relatively normal avi and mp4 files work fine, as output by Handbrake. I have a simple fairly obvious bash script that eats the iso or whatever in one directory, feeds it to handbrake's CLI, and outputs to another directory. I'm told handbrake has a nice gui but I've never used it or needed it.
Emby's funding model is its free but if you pay money the remote NAT busting mobile app works using their central servers as a middleman. I like the software and support it by buying the lifetime subscription or whatever. I don't think the roku channel needs that as you're probably not crossing a NAT boundary.
Emby and its emby app/channel on roku is strangely ahead of and far behind mythtv simultaneously, which is a whole nother topic. I suppose roku is also in strange ways far ahead of and far behind mythtv.
One of the big problems with roku boxes is most have the idea there's one box, the one they have. Of course in reality there are like 30 models over history, so my anecdote above about a box that is about 3 years old is probably WTF to owners of the other 29 models of roku.
Its about as reliable as a windows box. I should have it on a christmas light timer to reboot it regular, but when its not crashed or locked up it works pretty well. My favorite failure mode is when it crashes and the RF remote retransmits a command apparently infinitely. So you pick up the remote, no response, huh batteries must be dead, test the batteries, yeah they're dead, replace the batteries, now we got LED on the remote but the roku is still frozen on the title screen or whatever, now I power cycle the main box and it comes up. Killed quite a few batteries this way.
I've seen the appleTV, my SiL has one, and the roku is about the same, objectively. Of course if you're into drinking the Apple Kool aide, then the roku is trash and and appleTV is a trillion times better.