I don't know why the previous thread was deleted but the question remains.

If mycast should ever go down, we would be stuck. It honestly seems to serve no purpose other than a useless middle-man and just slows down the whole connection process.

Can't the orb servers just stream their own web server?

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"DITTO"

Would love to get an aswer to this question from Orb support.. Maybe we could get the web code and run them locally inside of our own networks? THat would be awesome..

I've been working on a "hack" that will bypass it and go through a local web server. I have been able to rather easily bypass the proxy that is required, however developing a web interface will require some work. It would make things *much* easier if I had somebody who could develop a web interface for me. Please e-mail me at goldstmarc[at]gmail.com if you are interested. I don't expect this post to last long before it is deleted so yeah.

Hi

Is it possible to run MyCast locally ?

I don't use Orb for streaming out of the house just use it on the local LAN, just concerned that if the MyCast website is down then my media sharing system goes with it.

Kev

Unsderstood -- about two months ago mycast was down.. and I couldn't stream because of mycast.. when I could theoretically I do not even need it..

But there is no way that I know of as of now.. I even wrote an API to bypass mycast, but it still has to authenticate the users against ORB's central database of username/passwords.. .. Also this was doesn't require that you know your external WAN IP address.. In addition.. You would still need to provide an interface to browse files.. Like mycast does.. Which then would require a webserver application somewhere as well.. (maybe orb could distribute the mycast interface for users to host locally as well).. So if you want security, authentication, and ease of setup, this is probably the best way

That said, the app could store username/passowrd for each individual user on each individual machine.. but that individual is now responsible for securing their username/password database files rather than ORB.. But it is possible if the app would do it, given that you know your external WAN IP address and could provide an interface to browse files .. It would require the community wanting it to function as such, because it would probably require a significant amount of work ( i would be willing to help ).

To conclude it would be cool if there was the capability to authenticate and browse files locally without going to ORB servers (personally, I would use it), but that would need to be an install option or something because not all of ORB users care about this technicality and do not want to spend the extra effort to get it set up as such. Further some may have a difficult time just getting all the info for it (WAN IP address, and providing a hosting location for a browsing interface like Mycast)

So count my 1 vote for a custom install option to authenticate locally (bypass orb servers all together) - but by default it should be the current normal configuration.

Add my vote for a local system as well, thats 2, anyone else want to add their vote ??

Its shouldn't be difficult for the developers to release a version that would run locally.

Can I ask that an admin / developer give us an answer to this question ?

Kev

Ditto :] that be awesome!

ADD MY VOTE AS WELL

I also vote for this, I have already requested it, but I doubt it will ever happen.

To be honest with modern Web 2.0 I don't really get why the page should be at Orb's host with placeholders for our media, instead of exactly the opposite (I for one don't feel the urge to contrast their need to push additional content etc. - after all something must keep the product free).