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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

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

For password protection: you can't

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

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

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