Ulysses
General => Off-Topic => Topic started by: JamminR on October 03, 2016, 08:10:51 PM
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REQUEST - Contribute to the (very small niche but I'm sure more of the potential niche will love your) open source world of Windows.
Know python? Speak it well for BOTH Windows and *nix? Bored? Looking for a project?
I have just the project for you!
I just got a new toy. Though I love it as a DVR, it's direct use from my house full of Rokus is nil to little (Plex channel, but, it's slow to buffer) due to no native HLS.
I have a new HDHomeRun, transcoding model.
For Roku to use it, it has to support HLS protocol.
I found Ply.
https://github.com/themacks/ply
Problem is, from what I can tell, Ply was based totally on linux.
I don't want to have to fire up a Rasberry or VM just to run Ply.
I spent about an hour last night figuring out Python well enough to figure out Ply was *nix based.
I got it past the cfg.py errors at least by plugging in real strings from the windows version of hdhr_config.exe.
So, that's my request.
Make a Windows version (or, cross platform depending on config file or something) of Ply.
I already have Python installed for some other apps I run (PlexPy, PlexEmail)
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You should check out Windows Subsystem for Linux, AKA Bash (Ubuntu) for Windows:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_guide
There are probably some underlying concerns with using this to solve your problems (security, not sure if linux daemons/processes run in the background unless you have a bash window open), but it's pretty fun to play around with, and it at least lets you get something set up right away. ;)
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Thanks for tip and possible toy to play with, but I'm not sure I want to offend my *nix favoritism by installing it as a MSWin shell.
It it weren't for all my bad microsoft dependent habits, I'd have gone majority linux at home long ago.