I have video DVDs, I convert them to ISOs, then I watch them using VLC. If I convert the DVD movies to MPEG, or some such video format, I don't know if I can retain all the features like subtitles and various language audio tracks. At this point, I'd rather not do them all over again, so I'd like to use them as they are. I can watch them from PCs using Samba and I can also watch them from Linux boxes using sshfs. My only problem is with iOS, right now, but it looks like the VLC folks might fix that. Mike On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Justin Krejci wrote: > Odd not old > > -------- Original message --------From: Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> Date: 11/25/2015 8:06 PM (GMT-06:00) To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] streaming videos to iPads from Linux server > How did you come to have a collection of video files in .iso format? Seems like an old choice to make intentionally. > > -------- Original message --------From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> Date: 11/25/2015 11:11 AM (GMT-06:00) To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] streaming videos to iPads from Linux server > Thanks to all for the help. I think all of the ideas were good except > that they don't happen to work with ISO files and almost everything I have > is in ISO files! > > Here's some more info on what I've tried: > > It looks like VLC for iOS will be supporting smb protocol soon: > > https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=128455&p=431357&hilit=ios+smb#p431357 > > Meanwhile, I thought I might be able to buy an app that would make this > work. So far, it hasn't worked. I installed this on the iPad: > > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filebrowser-access-files-on/id364738545?mt=8 > > Now I can see the ISO files on the Linux servers SAMBA share, but the next > problem is that the .iso file type isn't associated with VLC, so I can't > click on it to load it into VLC as if it were a local file. The > FileBrowser does offer the option to stream the file to a program. If I > do that, and stream to VLC, it will open an http connection -- I guess the > FileBrowswer becomes a web server -- but that doesn't work. VLC can't do > streaming of ISO files by http, apparently -- I tried that already using > Apache on the server. > > So nothing is working and maybe nothing can work until VLC supports smb, > which is supposed to happen within a month from now. We'll see about > that! > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list