Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Transforming Your
BeagleBone Black
into a Media Server
Sharing files, watching movies, listening to music, and all the other media-related
activities are abundantly proposed as Internet services. Any provider can propose
an MP3 aside topics and eggs; you have to choose among subscriptions that most
of the time include items that you don't need or never use. The chapters in this topic
won't discuss these online services that, if you do the math, cost you a lot, including
questioning your privacy, of course. Instead, you are going to be like these providers,
and the best one too. Why the best? Because you are the person who is best placed to
know what you need. Indeed, as you will know how to implement the services that
please you, you'll have the functionalities that will suit you the most.
The choice that is not yours
I'm sure you'll prefer to select the applications you'll like to have at home instead
of choosing among the fee subscriptions that providers impose on you.
Let's use an example: if you subscribe to
Netflix
or
Spotify
, you pay for the music
or video titles you choose among their catalogs. It is obvious that these on-demand
content providers offer an impressive choice, but this implies the following two
major drawbacks.
