Best way to stream video via a server without a website

Matthew9170 · 06-04-2012, 06:59 PM

Okay. This may be my first post on LQ but I have been comming here via Google for years. My questions is this: I have a server box running a de-Xorg version of Linux Mint 13, it has an old 80gb IDE hard drive, 5gb RAM (DDR2), Tri-core AMD cpu, an messed up intergrated g-card, I want to have the server be able to run both a MC server (say 40ppl at once) while being able for me to plug in an external HDD and have it stream video on the HDD from either in the house and around the country (USA), but the streaming will only be for people in my family (Brothers, Parents, etc...) as it will have some family related videos on it. I was thinking of doing a FTP server with it but that would defeat it because it would require you to download the video, I want it kinda how say Hulu or Youtube streams video. So is there anyway for me to do this? I already have the MC server running on it fine (Not open to public yet).

Thanks,
Matthew9170

schneidz · 06-04-2012, 07:19 PM

not sure what an mc server is. this mite help (i dont think the script is relevent to you):
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2/#post4416109

Matthew9170 · 06-04-2012, 07:58 PM

MC = Minecraft, that post is somewhat relevent but I want it so anyone with say the correct username / password can have access and it didn;t require xbmc.

schneidz · 06-05-2012, 08:05 AM

oh sorry, i thought mc was media center server...

if you want to share video, the link mentions i use sshfs to share media across the network (mite be a challenge if everyone isnt using linux).

else turn on your httpd server and give everyone a link to your files (i think most clients try to cache/ stream rather than wait for the entire download).

this mite be helpful:

Code:

[schneidz@hyper ~]$ cat ./stuff/netcat.ksh
#!/bin/bash
PL=$(find /root/user/music -name "*.mp3")
NUM=$(echo $PL |wc -w)
{
while true; do
r=$(($RANDOM%$NUM))
s=$(echo $PL |cut -d ' ' -f$r)
echo "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\nContent-Type: audio/x-mp3stream\n\n"
dd if=$s bs=1024
done
} | nc -l -s address -p 8020

Matthew9170 · 06-06-2012, 12:39 PM

Well I am the only one to use Linux and yea I want to do a streaming other than redownloading. With httpd is there a way to make it password protected?

chrism01 · 06-06-2012, 08:46 PM

Do the auth inside the <Directory> sections in the main httpd.conf file, using the Require directive https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mo...html#directory.
Don't(!) use .htaccess file(s) for the reasons stated here https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ho...cess.html#when

schneidz · 06-07-2012, 08:24 AM

some more reading found by googling:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html

frieza · 06-07-2012, 12:02 PM

you could also look into vlc, it also supports the ability to stream over a network and has a way of being set up as a 'video on demand' server