DVD to ISO and DVDshrink was a popular application 10 years ago… > On Nov 26, 2015, at 5:13 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> 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 > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list