Sideloading, Media Servers, UPnP, DLNA, and VR, Movies, and TV

Rad TV has always been supporters of enabling content ownership with technologies like sideloading, local media server support, and even RSS fees.

Rad TV enables you to play content you own by leveraging local media servers like Jellyfin, Kodi, Stremio, Emby, Plex, and more, and you can even attach a hard drive to your PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PSVR1, or PSVR2 to access those files directly.

The VR applications can support up to 8K 3D video content in H.264 or H.265 encodings, and you can mix VR video and traditional video in the same network or drive. There are various different things to consider across devices in terms of encodings and support, but check out the docs for more information.

Sideload VR Video on PlayStation 4, PSVR, and PSVR2, with PlayStation 5 coming soon. Also available on Meta Quest.

Make Your Own Streaming Platform and Easily Test Video and VR with Local Media Servers

Connecting to a local network or hard drive to stream content is important for a number of reasons, for both consumers as well as producers.

• The feature exists and was built originally for VR producers to check their work on the Rad TV platform without having to upload, transcode, and test via the website. This can take hours or days depending on the size of the content and the amount of testing required.

• For consumers, it opens up a world of ability for playing back any content you already own, across devices. 4K movies? Check. 4K or 8K 3D VR videos? Check.

For example, “How can I sideload VR video onto PlayStation VR2?”

1. Sign up for Rad TV Premium

2. Add your videos to a hard drive per the docs

3. Plug in your hard drive to your PlayStation and Log into Rad TV

4. Navigate to Library inside Rad TV and watch your VR or 3D movies.

Producers, Publishers, Studios, and Content owners can launch a TV channel on Rad TV simply by making an RSS feed that users can add to their Rad TV Account.

Launch a TV or On Demand Channel on Rad TV, or Curate Your Own Streaming Service with RSS in Minutes

Rad TV also enables use of one of the Internet’s greatest features. RSS. So many websites and publishers create RSS feeds of their content. It was originally supported on Rad TV to increase the amount of accessible content in VR, but now Rad TV is on Smart TVs, mobile devices, and VR / Game Consoles like PlayStation, so it can support traditional video everywhere and not just VR.

This is great for both producers and consumers of content.

• For producers, they can easily launch a TV channel on Rad TV simply by making an RSS feed of their videos. They can even include their own advertising or sponsored content in-stream. Read the docs to follow the spec.

• For consumers/viewers, just add the RSS Feed to your Rad TV account from the publisher above who followed our spec. When you log into any of the Rad TV apps, it will show up in the library as a channel. Read the docs for more info.

Launch TV channels on Rad TV using RSS

Producers/Creators/Content Owners - The spec for making your own RSS feed to send to Rad TV users is here.

Put your videos in here, and Rad TV users can add to their accounts and view on any Rad TV app across Smart TVs, Mobile, and in VR:

    <title> (The name of the channel)

    <link> (The link to the website corresponding to the channel)

    <description> (The description of the channel)

    <category> (The categories that the channels belong to)

    <image> (Image to be displayed for the channel. Aspect Ratio should be 16:9 with a width of 720 pixels or less.)

        <url> (The url of the image)

        <title> (The title of the image. Not currently used but RSS required.)

        <link> (The url of the channel’s website. Not currently used but RSS required.)

    <item> (The section for a single video)

        <title> (The name of the item)

        <link> (The url of the stream. Important: this should be a direct link to the video, i.e. mp4/mov.)

        <description> (The description of the item)

        <category> (The category of the item)

        <ls:duration> (Total running time of video in seconds)

        <ls:image> (The url to a thumbnail for the item. Aspect Ratio should be 16:9 with a width of 720 pixels or less.)

        <ls:content-type> (360, 180, ff, ar)

        <ls:content-layout> (2d, ou, sbs, ou_fr, sbs_fr, hcap, jpg)

        <ls:feed> (Boolean indicating if the item's url is another RSS feed, i.e. for categorization or folders.)

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