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stevesutt89

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From: Newcastle Australia

Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 46

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play videos through ssh

I'v been trying to play videos through ssh using codeine, mplayer and totem.  they can play the videos if they are copied to my local hdd, but not if i try to play them through ssh (ie by pointing them to the address sftp://steve@192.168.X.XXX/home/server/video.avi).  Totem gives the most descriptinve error message saying:
The playback of this movie requires a SFTP protocol source plugin which is not installed.

does anyone know what it is that totem wants me to install, or another way around this?

josomebody

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Registered: 2008-06-20

Posts: 190

Re: play videos through ssh

If you don't have a problem with using VLC, you can set it up to serve over a UDP port. On your video server run

vlc --sout udp:192.168.<machinewith.videoplayer>

you can pick videos from within vlc i think. if you wanna run it from the command line (your server has no X or you wanna run it from your remote machine through ssh with no -X) add

-I curses

as an option, or just list the video files or playlist in the command line.

To open your stream on the other box, run

vlc udp:192.168.<video.server>

See if that suits your needs.

EDIT: You might also have some luck mounting the remote drive with sshfs.

Last edited by josomebody (2008-06-22 02:13:24)

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stevesutt89

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From: Newcastle Australia

Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 46

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Re: play videos through ssh

i was unable to get vlc working, but i could play movies when i mounted a sshfs filesystem!

Thanks for the help!