Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 19:45:38 Mark Knecht wrote:

> Wow! That certainly qualifies for the simple part! The trick seemed to
> be to cd to the video directory before running python, but once I did
> that I am able to get video.
> 
> One 'problem' if you will is the video isn't streaming but rather the
> whole file is being copied and then xine is being run. That leads to
> no disk space over time.

It is not streaming, because you are not running a streaming server and in all 
likelihood the video file is not in 'streaming' media format.  Therefore when 
you click on the link the ipod downloads a complete file.


> Is this a function of Firefox being set up to use xine as opposed to
> some other app or plugin? I'd really like to understand a little more
> about getting it to stream instead of copy, if possible.

You can have a true streaming server (MMS, RTP, RTSP) or you can have a 
webserver (HTTP) which serves streaming media format files.

Have you tried setting up vlc as a streaming server on your PC?  It will also 
transcode files into streaming media.

Alternatively, use a device with a large enough storage on it to be able to 
save the whole of the downloaded file.


> The other thing I just tested was accessing the server using my wife's
> iPod Touch. It can browse to the video files but then Quicktime
> doesn't play them. Back in the python terminal I see a lot of message
> like this:
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> 192.168.1.243 - - [13/Nov/2011 11:44:26] "GET /H/Howard%27s%20End.m4v
> HTTP/1.1" 200 -
> ----------------------------------------
> Exception happened during processing of request from ('192.168.1.243',
> 49450) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 284, in
> _handle_request_noblock
>     self.process_request(request, client_address)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 310, in process_request
>     self.finish_request(request, client_address)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 323, in finish_request
>     self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 641, in __init__
>     self.finish()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 694, in finish
>     self.wfile.flush()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py", line 303, in flush
>     self._sock.sendall(view[write_offset:write_offset+buffer_size])
> error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> None the less it's an interesting start. Thanks!!

I'm pretty much clueless in python so can't interpret the messages - hopefully 
someone more knowledgeable will chime in.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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