Streaming a video from Linux to Windows

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Lews_Therin

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I'm trying to stream a 3.4 gig video with sound from a Linux server to a Windows desktop over a Lan. The desktop has mplayer installed, so it should be able to use most streaming formats.

The first server I tried was just apache. However, because the file was so large it couldn't be downloaded.

Second, I tried ffmpeg. That deleted the file to be streamed, and made me very angry.

Does anybody know a good streaming server that will not kill my files?
 
you could try using VLC, especially considering VLC is short for VideoLan Player or something very similar.
 
Sounds like you're trying to stream a dvd. Samba is the easiest way to go about this.

 
I have used Samba to stream music, and videos to both Windows and Unix hosts with no problems with large (1 -2 gig) files . As long as you don't have a piss poor network connection, and there is no bad IO bottleneck it should be fine.
 
It's not *exactly* streaming video, but it serves the same purpose. The way I do this is to mount a network drive, say Q: and then play a video file that's on that drive, in mplayerc or whatever floats your boat.

 
I'll second (third?) the use of samba - I've done it several times before - movies on a mounted samba share, watching them on a Windows machine while the files themselves are on an OpenBSD machine.
 
Yeah I don't think streaming is the best solution in this situation. You'd probably be better off exporting a share containing the file(using samba or nfs or something(does windows even support nfs?)) and then accessing the file though that share.
 
Samba seems to be working - I just thought that using a network FS would be much slower than streaming the video.

Thanks a bunch.
 
Not to sound too illiterate, but what is the difference from streaming a video like you are doing and simply sharing out the resource with samba for instance and opening it with mplayer, xine, or what ever.

I am confused with this "Streaming" terminology.

Thanks!!!

Joe
 
EmbraceThePenguin said:
Not to sound too illiterate, but what is the difference from streaming a video like you are doing and simply sharing out the resource with samba for instance and opening it with mplayer, xine, or what ever.

I am confused with this "Streaming" terminology.

Thanks!!!

Joe
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He wondered about a way to stream it (webcast-style), but the collective agreement was that sharing it with samba is a better idea (and easier).
 
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