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Marc Thomas
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<br><br>On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Justin Krejci <jus@krytosvirus.com> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div>Plex media server. Not sure about ISO support for that though. I backed up 100+ DVDs (thanks handbrake). It works well for when Netflix/ISP is down or for personal video playback. I've downloaded the occasional youtube video and stored that too. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've recently been setting up my media center and server. When I tried out Plex as an option back in April/May, it did not support ISO's. At one point, they did support ISO's, but they have since removed that feature. I went with Kodi for a variety of reasons. And Kodi is available on Android devices. Not sure about iOS devices though.<div><br></div><div>If you are streaming over slower connections from your server than Plex is a decent option. It's transcoding is really good. </div></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I also got a plex pass subscription to have multi user support so I have a guest account that only has access to kid friendly DVDs and personal media recordings.</div><div><br></div><div>It works with Web browsers, mobile device apps (android and apple), my roku, and probably other devices too.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;text-align:left;color:#000000">-------- Original message --------<br>From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l@gmail.com> <br>Date: 11/24/2015 1:57 AM (GMT-06:00) <br>To: TCLUG List <tclug-list@mn-linux.org> <br>Subject: [tclug-list] streaming videos to iPads from Linux server <br><br></div>I have some DVD ISOs on a Linux server. To watch them on a PC, I'll just <br>use Samba to serve a file share. That works great.<br><br>My kids have iPads, but it looks like the iPads don't natively work with <br>Samba. So I'm looking for another way to do it.<br><br>I have VLC installed on the iPads. Is there another protocol that can do <br>this? Using Apache on the Linux server, I could connect by http to an <br>ISO, but that didn't really work -- no sound, no controls and very <br>jittery.<br><br>Any ideas?<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br><a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br></blockquote>