Can MTS become a ROKU channel?

[DavidCC]

Sorry! I realize it's protected content, I'm a subscriber too, what I didn;t realize is the forum was not pay protected... so that's why I haven't put any more content on there. I was pretty excited when it worked, I apologize for breaking the pay-wall by putting the channel code here.

BUT it's pretty easy to set it up with a password and subscription access. I've done it for PeggyBank.com (but they don't run it any more). I don't know how access to the MTS videos is controlled (what software etc) but it might be possible to directly link access to MTS videos with access to the Roku channel. But if not there are other ways to control channel access based on subscription so the short answer is Yes I have figured out how to do that. But the channel code I posted earlier is not protected so I need to kill it.

It costs like $50/month to host the "channel" -not per user but total- and I only have a free account at InstantTVChannel.com right now, so I can't configure it to do that atm. But wait a basic $50/mo account I can setup a password protected channel. Go check out that site it's pretty cool really.

It can either be shared password - where everyone knows the same password; Or if you can add pages to this site, you can set the whole "enter this code at 10thPlanet.com" style Roku registration.


edit - killed it. sorry!!!

[Chris Ludington]

The wordpress controls access to the techniques. That's technically not accurate but for the sake of this discussion we'll leave it at that. So essentially if you could force the channel to require a valid access to the "techniques" section of this site that would serve as a buffer for those that don't pay and those that do. So far I have not been able to do that with either my tech guide, tech app, or the roku app. I'm not the webmaster here and this I don't have access to certain things. The webmaster is probably pretty busy and taking on new projects might just not be an option. You'd have to ask him. But yeah, there are some cool things we could do with the media but again, we can't post (publicly) links that will bypass the login system.

[Kurzy]

Umm, I just plug my laptop into a Largescreen plasma TV with an HDMI cable and watch it like that. Smart TV's should be able to stream from your phone too, shouldn't they?

[DavidCC]

Twonky is kindof spastic, maybe its my router but it drops the MTS feed every few minutes. The youTube app never does so I think it's something between whatver powers the MTS video feed and the Twonky app.

and yes laptop would work too but it just not as cool as having a 10th Planet TV channel!

I'm going to look into InstantTvChannel vs Wordpress. Maybe we get lucky there

[DavidCC]

So far I have not been able to do that with either my tech guide, tech app, or the roku app.

if I get this figured out you will be the first one to know!

[Matt Thomas]

I'd just be happy if I could get the MTS player to work with Chromecast.

[DavidCC]

Well it looks like Instant TV Channel has a WordPress plugin designed for just such a situation.
https://www.instanttvchannel.com/roku/wordpress

If "The Powers That Be" want to go forward with this, looks like it could be done kindo feasily - integrate the MTS subscription database with a Roku channel's password protection - I'l help if you want me to, I've setup a protected Roku channel before. I hope you do have time to work on it and I hope you think it's a good idea, because I would use it all the time.

thanks!