BeagleBone media center : a practical guide to transforming your BeagleBone into a fully functional media center / David Lewin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewin, David, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microcontrollers.

BeagleBone (Computer).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Lewin David: David Lewin was introduced early to electronics and computers by TRS-80, Atari, and Commodore 64; he has never quit since then. He spends his free time watching out for technology for the next generation of embedded systems when he is not exploring philosophy. David is a passionate and creative embedded developer who spent 20 years working for automotive companies such as Renault, Peugeot, and Faurecia, as well as for satellites with Thales Alenia Space. He currently works in Sophia Antipolis, the French Riviera Silicon Valley, designing industrial embedded systems.

Summary:

Whether you are a hobbyist or a professional, this book will get you fully equipped to resolve the most commonly occurring media-related challenges. If you want to expand your horizons beyond lighting an LED and push the limits of your board, this is just the book for you. Working knowledge of BeagleBone is assumed.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 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""

""Chapter 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 MJPEG-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""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 9, 2015).

ISBN:

9781784390228

1784390224

OCLC:

903965783