- BeagleBone Media Center
- Table of Contents
- BeagleBone Media Center
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. 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
- BBB Debian – prerequisites
- Setting up a dedicated database
- Step 1 – set up a Python virtual environment
- Step 2 – installing MediaDrop
- Step 3 – basic configuration file
- Step 4 – copying content from the initial data
- Step 5 – filling the server database and contents
- Step 6 (optional) – full-text searching
- 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
- 3. Examples of Real-world Situations
- 4. 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
- 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
- Presenting the "matrix revolution"
- Diving into the software
- Example 1 – our first client server application
- Example 2 – improving the first example by adding functionalities
- Example 3 – creating animated graphical patterns
- Following the project's requirements
- Where to find help on the Internet
- Looking at the differences from the previous example
- Looking at the concepts of the matrix edition
- Browsing the code
- Compilation time
- Describing the GUI
- A quick tour of the code
- Looking at the main functions
- Questions and thoughts related to this example
- Summary
- A. Troubleshooting and Tricks to Improve Your Server
- B. Ideas to Improve Your Server
- Index
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