Watching videos over HTTP from a VPS
February 8th, 2020
Does anybody know of some sort of video library/management system that I can install on my VPS, to watch videos that I download?
Basically, I have SickBeard/Sab running on my VPS and at the moment I just copy/paste the link to the TV show/movie I want to watch into VLC – and then watch it from there. But, it would be cool if I could watch it straight from the web. Ideally it would be nice if I could browse through folders (ie my downloads folder) and then choose a video, and then stream it.
I guess what I’m looking for is some sort of HTML5 media management system. Does anybody know of a good one?
Thank you
Are you looking for an actual web compliant video player to install?
Or will that be done client side? If so, a simple directory listing would let you browse through the folders and choose a video or song.
Thanks for the reply,
At the moment I am just using apache to browse through the directories to watch videos (this only works for MP4 files though). So I guess a web compliant player/server is what I am looking for. I am running CentOS if that helps. I’ll keep looking, maybe there is a linux app somewhere out there that will do what I’m looking for.
VLC has a streaming function doesn’t it? But I think with VLC you have to choose a specific file to stream, it’s not really stream on demand
Edit: Apparently you can stream a playlist over VLC and then access the playlist via the web interface. That would be very useful. Maybe there is a plugin that will update the playlist by checking my downloads folder for new files at a time interval that I set?
If you wanna stream h264, you might wanna check this out:
http://h264.code-shop.com/trac
Awesome, looks like it may be what I need. I’ll let you know how I go.