#60·streama

Google Drive hotlinking support

Author: phi0xCreated Aug 3, 2015Updated Feb 14, 2024
LabelsEnhancement

I've yet to find a media server app that allows the offloading of transcoding to be handled by Google Drive via hotlinking media.

I currently use Google Drive for my storage needs of my media due to travelling around a lot so I find it cumbersome to carry around extra drives.

Google Drive does all the transcoding work for me, depending where I stream from, I can select what quality I want to receive. This puts no pressure on my system and I don't have to keep a server running at home and pay for a beefed up internet connection to stream abroad. Google handles all of that for me.

What I can't do with Google Drive is have a nice UI like streama.

If Streama could put a feature in where you can host a streama VPS and hotlink to Google Drive accounts, I think that would be a really great feature to have. For people that want to use streama outside the home and don't have the internet connection bandwidth to stream abroad in high quality, Google Drive is one of the best options. (clouds in general). I'd be willing to pay for a cheap VPS to have streama running on where I could login to it anywhere I am and stream my hotlinked Google Drive files.

Also I have a couple of Google Drive accounts so it would be great to have support for multi-account importing and even just an input field where you can input a google drive hotlinked URL would be sufficient.