On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Folks,
> I have set up a video file server at my home. This lets me view movies
> and other videos just by going to a web page on the server and entering
> the directory where the videos of interest are (I have both TV series and
> movies and they are broken down into types ect). The whole thing works
> but for one thing, when I select a movie to view, the file is downloaded
> THEN vlc (or movie player it does the same with all of them) starts to
> run. I am trying to figure out what I need to do to start the video player
> once the stream of data starts flowing rather than waiting for the whole
> file to arrive.
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to what I need to do?
>
> I am using lighttpd as the web server, I have the following commands
> setup in the config file:
>
> dir-listing.activate = "enable"
Maybe something like Javascript that spawns a vlc process reading from the
right place (/dev/tcp/$SERVERNAME/80 under bash I think)?
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