Watching video on a LAN

[Gérard BIGOT]

2009/9/22 Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com>

> Yo,
> We have a small network at home. At the moment I watch vids on a notebook*
> via
> Firefox which is being served by a web-server on the main machine.
>
> * Ubuntu Netbook Remix Jaunty is installed.
>
> This leaves the video playing up to Firefox and it's various (confusing)
> plugins. Some videos work, many do not (in divers exotic ways.)
> Also, FF tends to crash -- prob. the plugin's fault. I don't care, it's
> still
> a mess.
>
> When I copy and paste the URL into VLC player -- the results are much
> better.
> Videos tend to play well.
>
> The manual process of finding the link in Firefox, copy, switch to VLC,
> open a
> menu, paste the URL is too tedious. (Not to mention too complex for others
> in
> the family!)
>
> 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?
>
> (I don't want to copy the video across before it plays. It must stream.)
>
> I am having horrible thoughts of trying to write some solution in Python --
> but before I start coding and lose sight of the next six months, I thought
> I'd
> ask here :)
>
> \d
>


I suggest sshfs? That way you mount the remote directory on your local
machine. And vlc sees it as local.

ssh/scp  does all the heavy networking by itself.

You can also directly open ssh:// URLs in VLC ...

G.

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