Watching video on a LAN

[David Gerard]

2009/9/22 Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>:

> 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.


I routinely play video over the network here. Files on a USB disk
attached to a server and served over SMB. Works fine, Ethernet or
wifi.

This may require mounting the SMB share. In GNOME, Totem Movie Player
does all this pretty transparently.


- d.