FTP by default?

[doman]

Hi,

I have all my movies on a server. While browsing through the File Explorer on my server and clicking on a movie-file (avi, x264 etc etc) I want it to stream in FTP in my VLC and play the movie instead of opening "as usual".

What am I trying to do? Is it Video On Demand or how can I set it up?

Have a best weekend )
//Doman

[TB the gr8 1]

That is pretty easy, open VLC, In the menu, choose "open stream" paste the adress to the file and open!
(address to file can be somthing like: "192.168.2.2/movies/movie.avi" or "MY_computer/movies/movie.avi" or maybe if u have a DNS "myaddress.dns.org/movies/movie.avi"

Im trying to do somthing simmilar, i have loads of movies on a server, and i wanna have a website where i can c all the movies, and when i klick on them it shall open and start streaming...
usualy when u make a link to a file, it whants to download the movie first, thats my problem...

[doman]

Hi there,
yes I know about that copy&paste stuff. But that isn´t what I want to do.

When I click on a file via Windows Explorer, placed at a server with a FTPserver active, and VLC starts to play it (as default player) I want it to stream via FTP instead of playing it "as usual".

How to solve that?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

That's an issue with Explorer, not VLC. You need to configure the file extension such that VLC is started with the URL rather than with an Explorer-preloaded file.