Re: [SLUG] Video File Server

From: Joe Brandt (vzd1s11k@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Feb 23 2010 - 18:26:46 EST


On Tuesday 23 February 2010 06:03:36 pm 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"
>
> In summary:
> I can access all of the directories
> I can select a video
> It will download,
> BUT the player does not start until the file is fully downloaded, it does
> not ask me to save it, once I select the file the download starts as soon
> as it ends the player starts. I have checked all that I can think of but
> have not been able to change the operation to the desired one.
>
> Any insight into this??

You need to configure your server to stream the video.
A quick http://www.google.com/linux (notice the linux on the end) search
reccomends VLC or FFmpeg

Here are a couple of sites to look at.
http://freshmeat.net/articles/video-and-audio-streaming-with-flash-and-open-source-tools
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6720

both are aged, but may still work.

-- 
Joe Brandt
Microsoft Free & Loving it!!!
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