Stream video and audio over LAN and WAN

[susan12]

I have over 100GBs of audio and video files on my PC that I would like to access at anytime. Whether it's around the house or on the go. 9 out of 10 places I'm usually at have highspeed wifi connections so I'm not too concerned about streaming over the 3G network; although it would be nice.

Basically, I want to set my PC up as a private media/file server that I can access from my rooted Droid X 2.2.....cheaply, free if possible.

I'm actually surprised that this device doesn't have streaming capabilities over local wifi networks. I can transfer files over from my home network and then play them but that requires a lot of wait time and uses a lot of space on the phone.

I know how to configure ftp and http servers with DNS if that helps. http would take a long time to code and can't be updated quickly so I'm hoping it can be done with an ftp server.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

Susan

[edwardw]

VLC appears to have a FTP access module, did you try ftp://username:password@youripaddresshere.net/ in the Open MRL?

[Nrby]

I want to do something similar

Strangely enough if I use the link with the username and password it works.
but I want to browse a complex folder structure and every folder i tap on askes for user and password and at the point if I enter the login infos it doesn't continue

any help ?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Use 2.1.16