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On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 19:45:38 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Wow! That certainly qualifies for the simple part! The trick seemed to |
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> be to cd to the video directory before running python, but once I did |
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> that I am able to get video. |
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> One 'problem' if you will is the video isn't streaming but rather the |
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> whole file is being copied and then xine is being run. That leads to |
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> no disk space over time. |
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It is not streaming, because you are not running a streaming server and in all |
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likelihood the video file is not in 'streaming' media format. Therefore when |
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you click on the link the ipod downloads a complete file. |
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> Is this a function of Firefox being set up to use xine as opposed to |
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> some other app or plugin? I'd really like to understand a little more |
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> about getting it to stream instead of copy, if possible. |
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You can have a true streaming server (MMS, RTP, RTSP) or you can have a |
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webserver (HTTP) which serves streaming media format files. |
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Have you tried setting up vlc as a streaming server on your PC? It will also |
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transcode files into streaming media. |
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Alternatively, use a device with a large enough storage on it to be able to |
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save the whole of the downloaded file. |
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> The other thing I just tested was accessing the server using my wife's |
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> iPod Touch. It can browse to the video files but then Quicktime |
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> doesn't play them. Back in the python terminal I see a lot of message |
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> like this: |
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> 192.168.1.243 - - [13/Nov/2011 11:44:26] "GET /H/Howard%27s%20End.m4v |
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> HTTP/1.1" 200 - |
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> Exception happened during processing of request from ('192.168.1.243', |
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> 49450) Traceback (most recent call last): |
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> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 284, in |
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> _handle_request_noblock |
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> self.process_request(request, client_address) |
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> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 310, in process_request |
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> self.finish_request(request, client_address) |
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> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 323, in finish_request |
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> self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self) |
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> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 641, in __init__ |
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> self.finish() |
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> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 694, in finish |
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> self.wfile.flush() |
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> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py", line 303, in flush |
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> self._sock.sendall(view[write_offset:write_offset+buffer_size]) |
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> error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe |
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> None the less it's an interesting start. Thanks!! |
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I'm pretty much clueless in python so can't interpret the messages - hopefully |
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someone more knowledgeable will chime in. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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