video files over network

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whiskers · Post by **whiskers** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:01 am

when in windows, i could stream files from another windows computer and play it on this one without having to copy the file on to the computer. I cant find a way to do that on linux. any suggestions?

thanks

denstark · Post by **denstark** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:30 am

If you used nfs, and just mounted the share on the other computer, i think it would do what you wanted it to

whiskers · Post by **whiskers** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:06 am

couldja clear up what nfs is? it has to be a seperate server with that filesystem on it right?
im just trying to get media files from another computer.

denstark · Post by **denstark** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:11 am

whiskers wrote:couldja clear up what nfs is? it has to be a seperate server with that filesystem on it right?
im just trying to get media files from another computer.

Its like mounting filesystems over the network. So you can share, say, /movies on one computer, mount it on the other one, and it will be like you have that same /movies on that computer. Its pretty easy to set up.

whiskers · Post by **whiskers** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:12 am

couldja tell me how, or point me to a tutorial? that would be much appreciated. thanks

denstark · Post by **denstark** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:46 pm

whiskers wrote:couldja tell me how, or point me to a tutorial? that would be much appreciated. thanks

http://syscrash.hopto.org/syspages/showpage.php?id=2

That is a great nfs tutorial, it makes it so easy to set up.

whiskers · Post by **whiskers** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:49 pm

this requires that i have a central server on which the files must be. is there any way i could mount the drive on another computer and play the files like that?

denstark · Post by **denstark** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:00 pm

whiskers wrote:this requires that i have a central server on which the files must be. is there any way i could mount the drive on another computer and play the files like that?

This doesn't require you to have a "central" server, just a server. It will do just like you said, mount the drive on another computer and you can play them just like that.

GaMMa · Post by **GaMMa** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:10 pm

NFS is a solution, and samba is also another solution. All you have to do is emerge samba and you'll be all set. I've only used gnome, and things work fine there, but heres what you have to do in gnome.

Make sure you have the samba USE flag enabled by putting it in /etc/make.conf then do a emerge -auD world --newuse and make sure gnome-vfs is included in the upgrade. Gnome applications have smb:// (samba protocol) support, so you can simple open a directory in nautilus, find a video stream, double click it and open it in totem. Gedit supports opening text files over this network.

The great thing about this is that you don't have to make any changes to the Windows computer, things will just work. You can choose your own directories you want to share back in samba, and I think either http://www.gentoo-wiki.com or the Gentoo documentation pages have a guide on that.

whiskers · Post by **whiskers** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:42 pm

GaMMa wrote:NFS is a solution, and samba is also another solution. All you have to do is emerge samba and you'll be all set. I've only used gnome, and things work fine there, but heres what you have to do in gnome.

Make sure you have the samba USE flag enabled by putting it in /etc/make.conf then do a emerge -auD world --newuse and make sure gnome-vfs is included in the upgrade. Gnome applications have smb:// (samba protocol) support, so you can simple open a directory in nautilus, find a video stream, double click it and open it in totem. Gedit supports opening text files over this network.

The great thing about this is that you don't have to make any changes to the Windows computer, things will just work. You can choose your own directories you want to share back in samba, and I think either http://www.gentoo-wiki.com or the Gentoo documentation pages have a guide on that.

is there a way to do it with kde? ex. emerge totem and gnome?
thanks

DooBeDooBeDo · Post by **DooBeDooBeDo** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:40 pm

Same way with KDE add samba USE flag and emerge --newuse kde

whiskers · Post by **whiskers** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:31 pm

but what do i do next? when i try to play the file with realplayer, it downloads it from the other computer first before playing it. this can get annoying with larger files. kaffeine simply says that it can only play local files.

denstark · Post by **denstark** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:39 pm

whiskers wrote:but what do i do next? when i try to play the file with realplayer, it downloads it from the other computer first before playing it. this can get annoying with larger files. kaffeine simply says that it can only play local files.

It SHOULD just download a buffer and continue to download the rest as its playing...

thawn · Post by **thawn** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:37 pm

This does not work with mplayer for me
I have gnome-light, samba and mplayer installed
i have gnome-vfs emerged with the samba use flag
but whenever I try to open a file on a windows share it simply says:

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Couldn't display "smb://....".

any ideas?

video files over network

video files over network

how about mplayer?