(2015-02-19, 18:18)Icebergx Wrote: Wow!!! This is exactly what I was looking for. I was planning to get a new RBPi and install Kodi on it, and I've just got myself 1TB (soon to be unlimited) of storage, so this could be the ultimate setup to start streaming video from my own Cloud library.
How responsive is OneDrive to streaming video? Are the one drive servers able to stream say a 10GB movie to a home Kodi system without any problem, or does playback tend to be jerky?
Also, is there anyway to automatically download torrented files/videos directly to OnDrive, rather than going via my PC/Mac? It would be great to start a torrent downloading, switch off my machine and, next time I switch it back on, the dl is completed and in my OneDrive... Is this possible?
I too am a member of the "unlimited" club
I've been focused on syncing my google drive content and uploading, etc, rather then actually making use of the playback yet. So far, I've uploaded 2.1 TB. Because of my vested interest in OneDrive, you can expect more focus by me over the upcoming weeks on this plugin.
So far only playback of the original quality over KODI is supported. Like Google Drive, OneDrive has transcoding available, but the streams are not in the ideal format -- they are segments (a keen to AdobeHDS), but they also break down streams into separate audio and video. You would normally feed through this through ffmpeg to combine them into one. I'm not sure if there is a way to feed them through KODI (which uses ffmpeg behind the scenes) to playback while downloading and combining. Thus, this will be one of the later things I look at.
Regarding your last question, it depends how computer sciencey you are
My local hard drives are all filled up with data and media. Don't plan on buying anymore. All my new media, acquired legally or otherwise, is downloaded directly to a VPS I've purchased ($15/year). Download is much higher than my home internet, since VPS instances tend to me located in data centers with fast access to the internet. I upload from the VPS (again at a speed 10-20x faster than at home), directly to OneDrive and Google Drive, and then I stream my accounts when I want to view the content. Newsgroups, direct downloads, etc, is typically what I use. Direct downloads could be files on sharing sites, or files/streams directly from NBC/ABC/CBS etc, running something like AdobeHDS.php, wget, curl, etc to capture the media so that I can playback at a later time. Bittorrents are supported on most VPS. There are other services like Hive.IM that have bittorrent support built in. But I download whatever I accumulate on those other services to the VPS to upload to OneDrive and Google Drive. To use VPS, you'd need to be familiar with linux. I used to use a raspberry pi (later replaced by a cubieboard2) at home as my "download/upload" machine that I leave on 24/7. Did the job nicely, with of course the "slowest" point being my home internet. The VPS I essentially treat as a "raspberry pi in the cloud" -- command line linux, 128MB/256MB memory, 1 core, etc -- with the difference being that it's on a backbone to the internet, so I sometime see speeds up to 100MB/s down depending on the source.