Publish small movies with VLC

[iClou]

Hi

I am new on VLC and I have a conceptual question.

I have several small movies which I have to publish through the Internet, so the movies can be watched from different people.
(I have a root server running with Linux on it).

Is is correct when I set up a VLC server (http interface) and publish these movies through this server (how does the publish work?)
Is it possible to password protect these movies somehow?

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Thanks for any help.
Mike

[funman]

For streaming you can see http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-h ... to-en.html

For password protection: you can't

[iClou]

Thanks

The how-to explains how to stream a file, which is fine.

My questions is how do I publish these streams?
Is the http internal server for that purpose made of?
If so, what are the requirments from a client perspective?

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Thanks for your help.
Mike

[funman]

you publish your videos by giving an url to access it to your friends,
http internal server is made for configuration of vlm,
for the client, running vlc is a must

[iClou]

Ok I got that, but I think I do not understand vlc, see my questions below:

a) What is the added value of a vlc server if I have to provide the URL?

b) Then I can prepare each video accordingly (with transcode/ffmpeg) and put them on a server, again why should I then use vlc server?

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Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Mike