With the arrival of the Mezzmo Roku app, I'm using it more and more often as it provides a consistent interface across my equipment. It's a great start but I think a couple tweaks would make this a killer app. Here are a few ideas for your consideration that resulted from my playing with the app:

Transcoding options (independent of Roku app wishlist)
  1. add an option to pre-transcode any new files added to a playlist to one or more specific devices. Most of my files seem to need to be pre-transcoded for my Roku3. Having to manually trigger this each time a file is added is a pain.

  2. add an option to automatically replace original content with pre-transcoded content. Because I'm streaming almost entirely to / through the Roku box, I'd like to have the option to minimize the storage duplication and keep only content targeted for it.


Roku app wishlist
  1. when the Roku app starts, I'd like an option that uses a previously identified Mezzmo server automatically; don't ask me to select it or to search for another. If the previously identified server can't be found then give me the option to search for one.

  2. provide a way to rate the content (video, music and photos) through the Roku app. Ratings are displayed but I don't believe they can be modified.

  3. provide a way to set the Mezzmo screensaver timing to something other than 5 minutes

  4. add an option to display selected metadata during photo screenshow (Eg file name, date, etc) as an overlay or defined area on the screen.

  5. the UI for streaming music playlists is static. The UI should be updated to highlight the song currently being played and/or it's position within the playlist
    • Assuming the static UI issue is fixed: provide an option to override both the Mezzmo and Roku screensaver so that when playing music the metadata info is displayed.


Thanks!