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Title: Ideas for Streaming Media
Post by: Henrod on March 02, 2010, 04:31:34 PM

Basically I'm looking for some plausible ideas on how I could stream my media library out to wherever I want. I have an extensive movie collection on a few external hard drives, a server running Ubuntu, and a very robust internet connection. What I would like to do is be able to access my media from anywhere. Anyone have any ideas?

Title: Re: Ideas for Streaming Media
Post by: Justinph5 on March 02, 2010, 04:36:28 PM

So what situation are you wanting to set up? Are you talking about plugging the HD's into the server, and gain access to them? If thats what you'r thinking of doing, then wait for someone else to answer... I've only used Ubuntu once... :P

Title: Re: Ideas for Streaming Media
Post by: Henrod on March 02, 2010, 06:22:52 PM

I'm looking for any way to stream my digital content out so I can access it when I'm not at home with decent quality. Remote login solutions do not work. So basically I'd like to turn my server into a media server accessible over the Internet. My own personal online On-Demand library.

Title: Re: Ideas for Streaming Media
Post by: skitzo on March 02, 2010, 08:02:58 PM

You could try WinAmp remote, dunno how well it works but you make a login and then can access your whole winamp library from a web browser. (assuming where you're going has internet and a computer.)

Title: Re: Ideas for Streaming Media
Post by: flip on March 06, 2010, 09:02:15 AM

Curious if skitzo's idea worked for you.

Title: Re: Ideas for Streaming Media
Post by: skitzo on March 06, 2010, 11:55:14 AM

As a note I just checked it out to try and access it here at my grandmother's and the host computer needs to be runnning the winamp remote program in order to access it.

Title: Re: Ideas for Streaming Media
Post by: Zorchenhimer on March 06, 2010, 05:21:40 PM

There was some software I used a while ago that did exactly what you are looking for.  Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.  It was a web interface that used php, the getID3() library, and  the JW Player.  If I somehow remember it, I'll post a link here.

Title: Re: Ideas for Streaming Media
Post by: ViciouZ on March 11, 2010, 02:07:13 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/29/how-to-stream-almost-anything-using-vlc/

That might come in handy, even if the screenshots are a bit out of date.

Title: Re: Ideas for Streaming Media
Post by: lekky on March 14, 2010, 12:46:04 PM

i use gmote, mainly because it has an android client so i can get my movies/music/etc literally anywhere.

Title: Re: Ideas for Streaming Media
Post by: Henrod on March 18, 2010, 11:58:01 AM

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to give a crack at this now that I'm home from vacation.

Title: Re: Ideas for Streaming Media
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