Streaming over internet with seeking?

[grantemsley]

I've been reading the forums, searching the internet, etc for a way to get this working. I have bits and pieces working, but can't wrap my head around the whole thing.

I want to be able to SSH into the my linux server from work, run "vlc my_video_file.avi ....something does here....", start vlc on my windows work computer, watch the video, and be able to seek (because maybe I've already watched the first half), pause, etc.

I don't want to have to reencode the videos beforehand, because I have lots of videos that will never be watched remotely.

Can anyone point me in the right direction here? I've gotten just basic transcoding and streaming to work, but can't seek it.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You can't do that, at least not by running VLC on the server. You can use SFTP to download the files, or any other file transfer protocol that can be tunneled inside SSH (e.g. HTTP with SSH port forwarding). Then you can use VLC on the client.

[grantemsley]

The entire process doesn't have to go over SSH, I can use any ports/protocols needed.

I have tried it that way, just opening the url from the web server, and it works great. I can even seek through the file properly (although the seek bar doesn't show the right position, seeking does work). However, it requires me to have enough bandwidth on the client side to download the video in real time.

I need to transcode it to a lower quality to suit the available bandwidth.

[Christoph904]

hi,

i have exactly the same problem posted here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=84108&start=0

have you found a working solution?!

please let me know, thx

[rogerdpack]

there's a web and telnet interface (or was the telnet interface deprecated?) they might help you