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Church FTP Media Server

5 postsstarted by eanderson 4,226 viewsoriginal topic

eanderson
New Member
#1
Does anyone know if there is a server to download videos from the church? It would be really nice to be able to rsync to get newly publish media.

If not has anyone created such a collection. I would be a shame for each of us to create a media collection by going to the website for each video.
Eric Anderson
Lead Java Developer
Stake Technology Clerk
russellhltn
Community Administrator
#2
eanderson wrote:If not has anyone created such a collection. I would be a shame for each of us to create a media collection by going to the website for each video.
The problem is the legal ability to redistribute the content. Without church permission, that's a copyright violation.

But there are ways that members have made it eaiser. I'd suggest reading USB Flash setup for Come Follow Me videos on Roku Player.
Have you searched the Help Center? Try doing a Google search and adding "site:churchofjesuschrist.org/help" to the search criteria.

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johnshaw
Senior Member
#3
Unfortunately the solution that was tested this year, developed internally by the Church, will not apparently be available for next year as well. This is pretty sad.
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rknelson
Member
#4
eanderson wrote:It would be really nice to be able to rsync to get newly publish media.
USB Video Manager is a free tool referenced in the post above that downloads an entire library to your computer with one click. As new videos are added to the library (which users update about once a quarter) re-downloading will only download the new files. It currently includes libraries for over 2500 different videos from lds.org.
dwariner
New Member
#5
Edited 1 time, last by aebrown on . Reason: Link to topic
Another tool is the Meetinghouse Library. For details and discussion, see this topic: Meetinghouse Library Project.