- 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
Author
David Lewin
Reviewers
Eric Feuilleaubois
Naoya Hashimoto
Pei JIA
Chidananda Matada Shivananda
Commissioning Editor
Amarabha Banerjee
Acquisition Editor
Larissa Pinto
Content Development Editor
Neeshma Ramakrishnan
Technical Editor
Faisal Siddiqui
Copy Editors
Dipti Kapadia
Rashmi Sawant
Project Coordinator
Danuta Jones
Proofreaders
Ameesha Green
Lawrence A. Herman
Indexer
Hemangini Bari
Production Coordinator
Manu Joseph
Cover Work
Manu Joseph
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