[Owncloud] Integrating MediaTomb

[Robin Appelman]

Making both use the same folder structure wont be enough, (future)
things like encryption, sharing, mounting external sources wont work
correctly with anything not using OC_Filesystem

- Robin Appelman



On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:13, Frank Karlitschek <karlitschek at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> thats a cool idea. This would be very helpful for ownCloud users to stream media via upnp and dlna.
>
> The problem is that ownCloud is pure php and we don´t want to include any binary code into ownCloud itself.
> But we could build an ownCloud "App" with php which acts as a bridge between ownCloud and MediaTomb which has to be installed on the system independently from ownCloud obviously.
> Or we could integrate it as an optional feature into the existing media app.
>
> @Robin: What do you think?
>
> Cheers
> Frank
>
>
>
> On 18.01.2012, at 04:58, Mark Constable wrote:
>
>> Just curious if there is any interest in integrating MediaTomb as
>> part of ownCloud?
>>
>> Being able to upload and manage files that are then made available
>> to any upnp/dlna device seems to make a lot of sense to me.
>>
>> The "integration" could be as simple as documentation on how best
>> to setup MediaTomb to use the same folder structure as ownCloud or
>> embedding the MediaTomb web interface within ownCloud and providing
>> some extra MediaTomb management facilities.
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> Frank Karlitschek
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