Friday, April 16, 2010

How to Put Roku Box in Development Mode

Here is the instruction to put the Roku Box in developer mode.

Before you are able to load a development application to your box, you must enable development mode on your Roku DVP. When you enter the special remote control sequence:

Home 3x, Up 2x, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right

After that you can install Roku Media server and stream videos off your computer by following the instructions at http://github.com/netguy204/roku_media_server/blob/master/README.textile

This is a good workaround for YouTube. All you do is encode and YouTube file you want to MP4 and you can stream it from the Roku.