On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 18:49, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 18:17, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe something like Javascript that spawns a vlc process reading from
>>>> the
>>>> right place (/dev/tcp/$SERVERNAME/80 under bash I think)?
>>>>
>>> If I go to a network site, it will spawn VLC as soon as the file starts
>>> streaming. It is something else, I am thinking that something needs
>>> to be embedded in the stream perhaps to tell the receiving end that
>>> this stream should immediately start VLC.
>>
>> Can vlc handle it if you give it the file's URL rather than its name, and
>> let it handle the transfer? If not, maybe do the download into a "file"
>> which is actually a named pipe.
>>
> Yes I can give VLC the URL of the file location, but I would like to
> have VLC present a directory list and the be able to select the file,
> If I am on the local machine where the files reside it is not a problem
> but if I am going to the server as a remote machine then I can not use
> the directory function in VLC. I was hoping to use the web browser so
> as not to have to go in and mount the remote file system in order to
> browse it.
One solution would be: write a script which runs a cgi script
(prettyprinting its output if necessary), then shows the movie at the URL
the cgi script returns, unless it's special. The cgi script presents a
directory listing of the movies, then prints the movie the user selects or
something special if there's an error or the user cancels.
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