Watching video on a LAN

[M. Spruell]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:35:54 +0200
> Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is there any other means to browse a restricted location on another machine, 
>> click a video link and have VLC (or other) player open and *stream* that 
>> video?
> 
> Well, what about "Connect to Server" with ssh/sftp?
> Or nfs? In these cases you are simply playing the video from a different
> location, not copying it.
> 
> Seems to work OK here for video files...
> You can select a "default" player for a particular file type using the
> "Properties" in the right-click menu for that type (In Nautilus file
> browser). Most types are handled OK by totem, the usual default,
> assuming of course that you have the relevant codecs.
> 
> Peter
> 
How about a .htaccess / .htpassword secured web page with the files on it?


M. Spruell