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
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