Category5 wrote:

We too use Vimeo Pro for our Roku feed. When you're a pro user, you can visit the "Video Files" tab and grab the direct links for all the hosted files.

We had been using S3 with Cloudfront, but that became cost prohibitive. I was shocked to find Vimeo Pro was so cheap and would work, and did some testing where it actually ran very, very fast. Doing a wget on one of our Vimeo-hosted files, I am still in awe at how cheap it is.

The one thing with Vimeo is that the filenames have a ? in the name. My solution was to build a stream server which uses header redirects to point users to the file. This works GREAT for Roku but also our RSS feeds. Another nice thing is that it allows us to track a great deal of information about each and every view -- see https://status.category5.tv/. An easier solution might be to simply use YOURLS or another link shortener (to hide the ? from Roku, which tends to break things in some cases).

See http://v.cat5.tv/a/2hpFuOQ7/v/e/i/1410/q/hd/CAT5TV-383-Memories-of-Me-HD.m4v <- if you grab it with wget you'll see what's "actually" happening behind the scenes... but the inevitable endpoint is... you guessed it... Vimeo.

Blackhawk wrote:

Would putting a shortcut link to the download (like when using the videos from archive.org) work with Vimeo?

<?php
$link = file_get_contents("type URL here");

preg_match_all(
    '/(http.*.m3u8)/', //this tells it to find and grab the m3u8 link

    $link,
    $otherthings, // will contain the article data
    PREG_SET_ORDER // formats data into an array of posts
);

foreach ($otherthings as $otherthing) {
    $link = $otherthing[1];


// clear out the output buffer
while (ob_get_status())
{
    ob_end_clean();
}

// no redirect opens link
header("location: $link");
}
?>

bwschulz wrote:

Hello, yes, I have found that also to be true that AWS S3 has served us reliably too - though Direct Publisher conversion shut down our Grande Projecte, pray thee only temporarily so that reliability of service hasn't been tested yet at Roku. So check this out - What I thought was interesting to note, after reading many posts about trouble with reading the JSON config files or retrieving content or getting brand assets, or rather failing to do all those tasks -- that right here, in this forum, for my posting profile, I found the "offsite Avatar option" in account settings which I tried to link to a well before posted image of your truly discouraged author, and that fetch failed in error from S3. I am sure it is an easy explanation to work around the problem but I find it an unfortunate timing that the Roku forum account profile photo replace feature failed to retrieve a simple 146x146pxl jpg from my open non locked down non intensive permissions guarded plain old image file bucket at S3 - so my avatar image remains poignantly empty.. the schulz 

brentonhouse wrote:

I understand that you can use Vimeo (and possibly YouTube) for hosting videos on Roku, but I don't know the endpoints that you would use for either of these hosts.  

Does anyone else here use Vimeo to host a video for a Roku Channel and if so, what endpoints are you using?

stubbstarbuck wrote:

brentonhouse wrote:

I understand that you can use Vimeo (and possibly YouTube) for hosting videos on Roku, but I don't know the endpoints that you would use for either of these hosts.  

Does anyone else here use Vimeo to host a video for a Roku Channel and if so, what endpoints are you using?

Vimeo Pro provides an HLS link that works very well. We've been using that for a few months without a hitch. It's very easy to integrate.

Here's working code for you for an episode object.

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"id": "someuniqueidentifier",
              "title": "The title of the video",
              "content": {
                "dateAdded": "2017-04-15T22:21:37+00:05",
                "videos": [
                  {
                    "url": "https://player.vimeo.com/external/alongstringofcharacters",
                    "quality": "HD",
                    "videoType": "HLS"
                  }
                ],
                "duration": 3016
              },
              "thumbnail": "https://domain.com/image.jpg",
              "episodeNumber": 2,
              "shortDescription": "Basically the title. About this length to display well.",
              "releaseDate": "2017-04-15T22:21:37+00:05"
            }