Snapstream: Safari-friendly Linux webpage generator... and a question about Streaming

matt.hocker · #1 (**permalink**) 09-09-2004, 08:28 AM

I have finally reached the point of frustration that I wrote my own script address the issue that I can't download shows remotely from the BTV web interface on my Mac running Safari. Basically, the user interface works (with glitches) for most things, but the recorded shows function simply doesn't work. You can't even change pages. I am sure this is due to non-conforming javascript ... and most frustratingly, this issue is old, going back to the PVS 2.0 days.

Seeing as I didn't think this was likely to be fixed any time soon, I created a script on my linux machine, which mounts /mnt/hush (my hush quiet pc, running snapstream) and just creates a simple web page with the list of files. Here it is:

#!/bin/sh
cd $1
echo "<html><head><title>Snapstream Videos as of" `date`"</title></head>"
echo "<body bgcolor="#ffffff"><center><table width="80%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">"
echo "<tr><td bgcolor="#006600" width="80%">Name</td><td bgcolor="#006600" width="10%">Date</td><td bgcolor="#006600" width="10%">Size</td></tr>"
ls -lth *wmv | awk '{print "<tr><td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\" width=\"80%\"><A HREF=\"/snapstream/videos/"substr($0,57,length($0)-56)"\">"substr($0,57,length($0)-60)"</A></td><td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\" width=\"10%\">"$6" "$7"</td><td bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\" width=\"10%\">"$5"</td></tr>"}'
echo "</table></center></body></html>"

This works fine, and is a simple solution to the problem. Feel free to use as you wish.

Now, the question I have is, is it possible to use anything on Linux to stream these wmv files over the internet? I am looking for an approach that doesn't do progressive downloading, rather to actually stream the files. The Mac version of Windows media player is not very good, so something that VLC could support would be ideal, using the RTSP protocol... any thoughts?

BenH · #2 (**permalink**) 09-09-2004, 10:07 AM

Never had a mac . I play with Debian . I hope you know the linux help sites.

google found this. http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_7378.html

http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/

This is a Windows / Linux / Mac app .

google.com/linux .

matt.hocker · #3 (**permalink**) 09-09-2004, 01:32 PM

That seems like a nice product, but I am looking for an open-source solution. Something using ffmpeg perhaps? FYI, the linux box that I am hosting the website from is running Mandrake 9.2.

crush157 · #4 (**permalink**) 09-09-2004, 01:37 PM

For video streaming on linux, go look at videolan, www.videolan.org

This is a linux streaming solution with realtime conversion as well.

Brett · #5 (**permalink**) 09-09-2004, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matt.hocker

Basically, the user interface works (with glitches) for most things, but the recorded shows function simply doesn't work. You can't even change pages.

The webadmin was completely redone in 3.5 and works fine in Firefox (and I think Safari), plus is open source

.

-Brett

matt.hocker · #6 (**permalink**) 09-09-2004, 01:53 PM

Great about the web server fixes... I await 3.5 with bated breath!

matt.hocker · #7 (**permalink**) 09-09-2004, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crush157

For video streaming on linux, go look at videolan, www.videolan.org

This is a linux streaming solution with realtime conversion as well.

Thanks for the tip, but I don't think will work here. It seems that VLC is better suited to a LAN environment where you know the destination IP. I'm looking for something that I can click on a link and have the stream start up... something like rtsp://xxx.yyy.com/filename

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