Hi, Pandu asked a similar question a few days ago about serving up files, but mostly for distfiles IIRC. It got me thinking about doing the same sort of thing, but this time to serve up MP4 video files for my Kindle Fire as well as other computers on _only_ my home network. Sort of an in-house Mark's Watch Instantly setup. I've now got a few hundred gigabyte of mp4 files ripped with Grant's suggested app Handbrake. They look good on my desktop playing in xine. When the Kindle Fire arrives I'd like to have a web server running on my private network that Silk (Amazon's KF broswer) could access, possibly presenting nothing but the alphabetical folders that the video files are in, and then if I select one it starts streaming that file.
My main issue isn't really the lightest in terms of memory or CPU usage, but rather something that's VERY easy to setup the config so that I don't have to spend much time reading manuals. From browsing around a lot of pages on the web it seems that there are a number of small & light servers (in terms of memory anyway) in portage. Some names: fnord, thttpd, boa, monkeyd & cherokee. Does anyone know if one of those would fit my main need of just being extremely simple to setup and keep running for this one purpose? Thanks in advance, Mark
