June 22, 201214 yr Hey guys I own a blackberry playbook, and one of its few slight issues is that it can't browse/playback from SMB shares. Now, a fine gentleman got annoyed that there was no official support for streaming media from networked devices and wrote a nice little lightweight server using PHP and LightTDP, leveraging the browsers ability to playback practically any video or audio you can throw at it. It's actually really rather good. Now, as it stands I am running those two programs on my windows box, which serves the web page with my network shares available on them. However, since this is somewhat inefficient (and requires having both my windows and unraid box fully powered on) I was wondering if I can get this same kind of arrangement running directly from the unraid tower. Since there are both PHP and LightTDP packages available it strikes me that its possible, but I wouldn't know where to start. You can see the work that the original developer has done here: http://forums.crackberry.com/playbook-apps-games-f243/got-irritated-wrote-media-server-my-pb-687532/. It would seem (to the very untrained eye) that since neither php or lighttdp are platform specific, that it wouldn't be hard to port the existing code over, but like I say, I just don't know enough to try. Any help you guys could give me, would naturally be greatly appreciated.
June 22, 201214 yr have you looked at "subsonic" as there is a plugin for it already and works wonders..... Myk
June 22, 201214 yr +1 for subsonic. I wouldn't be able to get through my work day without it. and there's a blackberry playbook app for it too. http://www.subsonic.org/pages/apps.jsp#sonicair
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