From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RPehj-00039c-BV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:22:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDFE121C1CB; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D83C21C1A9 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyd10 with SMTP id 10so5396054gyd.40 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:21:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=LjbGAIbmGdVrnjpHraG+SCRi8zGWX4sTHA6kqWaoo+U=; b=ej2z7pjgMfROpkeu1HqqARroGJsR2kYKXF4qKVQ8eSY6zcq6ggrWcelDiUEJ96EIZ6 U5SekugLGXbsgNtE8hKLVSfuYXv2Fi0iK2/o7jo5dnthqi+Uphum1ZlyvnjF8eRjG+Q8 FVLi80uH/dRbDWJfvvp304Pymh/BSKcGTRqU0= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.124.9 with SMTP id me9mr4375355obb.1.1321208477433; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:21:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.149.33 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:21:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:21:17 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ? From: Mark Knecht To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 140b817a-1a5c-4f01-9349-f8ee89ab2bb2 X-Archives-Hash: d63172ef6209dea06345df05bfc7f307 Hi, Pandu asked a similar question a few days ago about serving up files, but mostly for distfiles IIRC. It got me thinking about doing the same sort of thing, but this time to serve up MP4 video files for my Kindle Fire as well as other computers on _only_ my home network. Sort of an in-house Mark's Watch Instantly setup. I've now got a few hundred gigabyte of mp4 files ripped with Grant's suggested app Handbrake. They look good on my desktop playing in xine. When the Kindle Fire arrives I'd like to have a web server running on my private network that Silk (Amazon's KF broswer) could access, possibly presenting nothing but the alphabetical folders that the video files are in, and then if I select one it starts streaming that file. My main issue isn't really the lightest in terms of memory or CPU usage, but rather something that's VERY easy to setup the config so that I don't have to spend much time reading manuals. From browsing around a lot of pages on the web it seems that there are a number of small & light servers (in terms of memory anyway) in portage. Some names: fnord, thttpd, boa, monkeyd & cherokee. Does anyone know if one of those would fit my main need of just being extremely simple to setup and keep running for this one purpose? Thanks in advance, Mark