<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>How did you come to have a collection of video files in .iso format? Seems like an old choice to make intentionally. <div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 11/25/2015 11:11 AM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list@mn-linux.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] streaming videos to iPads from Linux server </div><div><br></div></div>Thanks to all for the help. I think all of the ideas were good except <br>that they don't happen to work with ISO files and almost everything I have <br>is in ISO files!<br><br>Here's some more info on what I've tried:<br><br>It looks like VLC for iOS will be supporting smb protocol soon:<br><br>https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=128455&p=431357&hilit=ios+smb#p431357<br><br>Meanwhile, I thought I might be able to buy an app that would make this <br>work. So far, it hasn't worked. I installed this on the iPad:<br><br>https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filebrowser-access-files-on/id364738545?mt=8<br><br>Now I can see the ISO files on the Linux servers SAMBA share, but the next <br>problem is that the .iso file type isn't associated with VLC, so I can't <br>click on it to load it into VLC as if it were a local file. The <br>FileBrowser does offer the option to stream the file to a program. If I <br>do that, and stream to VLC, it will open an http connection -- I guess the <br>FileBrowswer becomes a web server -- but that doesn't work. VLC can't do <br>streaming of ISO files by http, apparently -- I tried that already using <br>Apache on the server.<br><br>So nothing is working and maybe nothing can work until VLC supports smb, <br>which is supposed to happen within a month from now. We'll see about <br>that!<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br></body></html>