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hi everyone

excuse my bad english, but i think this is the best place to get (more) information about video lan and it's possibities.

i try to prepare a video streaming server for unicast (video on demand) connections.
i've read the documentation and found out, that i need to install a http-server, where i can put my videofiles on.
but do i need to install vlc (as a streaming-server) on my server, when i only want to realize unicast connections?
or it's good enough, when i open the file with vlc player from any workstation in my network directly on the webserver?
i tried out a lot and didn't came to a result, which made sense...



thanks a lot!

greets
agent sands

agent_sands
I set up a VOD server using VLS on a Linux computer
what you can do is to store (Perl, bash...) scripts on your http server, and start VLS with those scripts and it works quite ok. You dont need to store your video file on the HTTP server, just the scripts.