Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
After submitting a video, it needs to be validated before it is made available online.
As such, consider these scenarios:
• You just came back from holidays and want to show your photos
and videos to friends on your TV set and also let them add comments.
How about unrelated or inappropriate comments?
• Your daughter would want to have her own space to publish her media
and share it through Facebook from her laptop.
Don't you think this should
be supervised a bit?
• Meanwhile, your kid wants the last Disney movie from the VOD provider
on his tablet, right now!
What about account credentials?
Standard media readers are DVDs, CDs, hard drives,
network attached
storage
(
NAS
), game consoles, or any software/device that lets you
listen to music or watch movies. The server we are going to set up
replaces all of them with many additional capabilities.
These examples, taken from everyday life, are easy to implement with MediaDrop as
long as you consider the BeagleBone Black server as the center of it all, instead of just
being a media player.
Publishing your media
When you first connect to the interface, simply click on
Upload
, as shown in the
following screenshot. You will be redirected to the principal interface where you
need to fill in the media details, as in the following screenshot.
•
The title of the post
: This will appear beside the thumbnail.
•
The author's name
: This will have implications related to user's rights.
• An email address.
•
A description
: To let your readers know what is it all about. Keep in mind that
it will also be used when you share the post, so it's better to write explicitly.
• Optionally, you can also do the following:
° Pick up some categories to define your upload group membership
