BeagleBone Media Center : A Practical Guide to Transforming Your BeagleBone into a Fully Functional Media Center.

Intro -- BeagleBone Media Center -- Table of Contents -- BeagleBone Media Center -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Transforming Your BeagleBone Black into a Media Server -- The choice that is not yours -- You'll still be restricted by their proposals -- You hardly manage your own content -- Your server, your rules -- Powerful and straightforward software installations -- Using dedicated hardware -- 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 -- Booting from an SD Card or flash (eMMC) -- Extending the root limitations on a fresh installation -- Extending your root's partition -- 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 -- Your first administrator action -- General settings -- Site name -- Default language -- Appearance -- Categories -- Comments -- Notification e-mails -- Players -- Popularity -- Tags -- Upload -- File size limit -- Storage engines -- Self-test questions -- Summary.

2. Media Management, Shares, and Social Activities -- How to use MediaDrop through workflows -- Why approvals are required -- Publishing your media -- Auto administrated contents -- Administrator tasks -- Exploring different ways to access your media -- Self-test questions -- Summary -- 3. Examples of Real-world Situations -- Introducing the security role -- An everyday use case - a house in Springfield -- Defining your users list -- Understanding role attributions -- Group management -- Applying groups and users -- Second use case - media management in a company -- Managing policies and groups -- Self-test questions -- Summary -- 4. Getting Your Own Video and Feeds -- Detecting the hardware device and installing drivers and libraries for a webcam -- How to know your webcam -- Setting up your webcam -- Installing and running MJPG-Streamer -- Installing MJPG-Streamer -- Starting the application -- Let's add some security -- I'm famous" - your first stream -- Using our stream across the network -- Starting the streaming service automatically on boot -- Exploring new capabilities to install -- Plugins -- Another tool for the webcam -- Configuring RSS feeds with Leed -- Creating the environment for Leed in three steps -- Creating a database for Leed -- Downloading the project code and setting permissions -- Installing Leed -- Setting up a cron job for feed updates -- Using Leed to add your RSS feed -- Some Leed preferences settings in a server environment -- Extending Leed with plugins -- Summary -- 5. Building Your Media Player -- Introducing BeagleBone capes -- Exploring capes' categories -- Considering a personal Palm Media player -- Functional description -- Physical description -- Installing a system for the expansion board -- Looking at the available operating systems -- Retrieving the latest files, images, documentation, or software.

Installing drivers -- Prerequisites for installing any system -- Considering a virtual machine -- Finding your SD card device -- Listing devices with lsblk -- Using the dmesg utility -- Checking your investigation -- Adapting foreign systems for the installer script -- Installing your system -- Installing and using Android -- Installing and using Debian -- Installing and using TI EZSDK -- Taking a look at TI's linux unique tools -- TI's website -- Developing with Qt -- Using the expansion board with Android -- Using files from a computer -- Installing applications -- Games -- Watching and listening to media -- Summary -- 6. Illuminate Your Imagination with Your Own Projects -- Presenting the "matrix revolution -- The LED matrix -- Introducing I2C -- Wiring the matrix to the board -- Diving into the software -- Example 1 - our first client server application -- Installing the requirements -- Running the example -- Jumping into the code -- Description of the data packet -- Describing the server code -- Questions and suggestions related to this example -- Example 2 - improving the first example by adding functionalities -- From the client side -- From the server side -- Improving the client with Kivy -- Questions and thoughts related to this example -- 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 -- Ease your life with the command line -- Package management -- Get to know what you did previously -- Different ways to find your files.

All you need to know about open network ports -- B. Ideas to Improve Your Server -- MiniDLNA -- Introducing MiniDLNA -- What a DLNA server can do for you -- Installing miniDLNA -- Configuring and customizing miniDLNA -- Subsonic -- Installing Subsonic -- Administering Subsonic -- Changing users -- Restarting the service to apply changes -- Accessing configuration settings -- Advanced configuration -- Troubleshooting -- Index.

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