Thus Chuck Hast hast written on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:03:02PM -0500, and, according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
> 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.
>From the bits I've been skimming, it sounds like:
1) You want VLC to stream videos from your fileserver
2) You can access the files by URL or NFS/Samba
3) VLC will stream the videos if you access by URL, but not by a
local filename (I.E. NFS/Samba)
4) You want to provide a directory listing front end to VLC
5) You want VLC to stream teh file and begin playing immediately
instead of copying the whole thing
Are these correct?
If so, it sounds like you need some way to browse the filesystem and
when you choose a file, start VLC with that URL.
I see 2 ways to accomplish this:
1) Setup a pseudo-directory that mimics the actual directory. Each
"file" in this directory actually contains code that redirects to a
corresponding URL. When you open this file with VLC, it see that and
opens the URL. You'd want this pseudo-directory regenerated automatically
periodically.
2) Use a web browser to browse through an http generated directory
directory listing. When you click on a file, the browser starts VLC and
it starts streaming with the server.
Apache can easily be configured to provide directory listings, but I'm
not sure about lighttp.
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