They are local files only. I have used xbmc, and wide variety of other media center apps, and wanted for fun, amusement, and to see if i can, to create a light weight alternative. In the bash script you specify your movie folder and a folder where all the www files will be stored. Then the bash script parses and creates all the necessary html, js files. I am in middle of switching my coding from just generated straight html to generating json data that can be used in several places. As I said this is a work in progress, and I still have a lot of work to get it really 100% looking nice, and error-free, and so forth. Then I will make it available open source. On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012, Craig Rosenblum wrote: > > I am already working on a web-based movie player page, as an alternative >> to using software, based on a bash script that generates html based pages >> that allow me to scroll through local movies and then play them. Not done >> yet, but getting closer. >> > > By "local" do you mean on local drives? Are they DVD ISOs or MPEG files > or what? > > > > I love working on bash scripts. And I was always a big fan of automating >> things on windows, so I look forward to learn how to do automation in linux. >> > > I guess it's kinda like this: > > dos batch --> bash script > scheduler --> crontab > > I'm sure the suggestion to learn python or perl was a good one, but I do a > lot in bash and I think it is very worth knowing. It helps a lot to have > bash skills when you need to do something quickly from the command line. > You can do a lot with bash. > > Welcome to the club. > > Mike > > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120520/ecdf2f4d/attachment.html>