Serving up Plex/TV

Bernard Mentink bmentink at gmail.com
Wed May 4 14:45:07 PDT 2016


Hi Matt,

No worries, was just hopeful ... maybe I can run that stuff virtually.

By the way Matt, great to meet you again, I remember you from back in the
old Amiga days :) .... great machine that was too ....
Awesome to see some of the Amiga finding it's way back into BSD ..

Cheers,
Bernie

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com> wrote:

> Yah, I don't think it will work.  I know there is some work being done on
> web cam interfaces but I don't think anything is close to operational yet
> (and possibly never).  It hasn't been a focus.  Sorry Bernard!
>
> -Matt
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Tim Darby <t+dfbsd at timdarby.net> wrote:
>
>> I don't know about tvheadend, but the last time I checked on Plex, there
>> was no version available for DragonFly. When I looked at the FreeBSD port,
>> I discovered that it was simply downloading the FreeBSD binary from Plex
>> and this can't run on DragonFly. So, unless something has changed, it's not
>> possible to run Plex server.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Bernard Mentink <bmentink at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> I am very new to DragonFlyBSD and have just installed it on some
>>> hardware to play with and also installed the  Lumina desktop.
>>>
>>> My interest is in setting up a server to do mainly file and Plex serving
>>> tasks.
>>>
>>> However I can't see any of my necessary apps in the Repo.
>>> These are:
>>>
>>> 1. Plex Media Server
>>> 2. Tvheadend
>>>
>>> Tvheadend will need cuse4bsd.ko kernel module and the webcamd driver to
>>> expose my dvb-t device nodes to tvheadend .. (these are all available on
>>> FreeBSD)
>>>
>>> Has any porting effort gone into any of these programs? Or am I on my
>>> own .... ;)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bernie
>>>
>>> --
>>>
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>>
>>
>


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