On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote:
>
> On Nov 14, 2011 1:25 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>> 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
>>
>
> Try:
>
> python -m SimpleHTTPServer <port number> &
>
> (the trailing ampersand detaches the process and makes it run in the
> background)
>
> Or for something that survives a logout, try:
>
> nohup python -m SimpleHTTPServer <port number> &
>
> Of course, RAM usage will be huge compared to the lightweight HTTP servers,
> but I can't think of a simpler thing atm.
>
> Rgds,
>
Wow! That certainly qualifies for the simple part! The trick seemed to
be to cd to the video directory before running python, but once I did
that I am able to get video.
One 'problem' if you will is the video isn't streaming but rather the
whole file is being copied and then xine is being run. That leads to
no disk space over time.
Is this a function of Firefox being set up to use xine as opposed to
some other app or plugin? I'd really like to understand a little more
about getting it to stream instead of copy, if possible.
The other thing I just tested was accessing the server using my wife's
iPod Touch. It can browse to the video files but then Quicktime
doesn't play them. Back in the python terminal I see a lot of message
like this:
----------------------------------------
192.168.1.243 - - [13/Nov/2011 11:44:26] "GET /H/Howard%27s%20End.m4v
HTTP/1.1" 200 -
----------------------------------------
Exception happened during processing of request from ('192.168.1.243', 49450)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 284, in
_handle_request_noblock
self.process_request(request, client_address)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 310, in process_request
self.finish_request(request, client_address)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 323, in finish_request
self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 641, in __init__
self.finish()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 694, in finish
self.wfile.flush()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py", line 303, in flush
self._sock.sendall(view[write_offset:write_offset+buffer_size])
error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
----------------------------------------
None the less it's an interesting start. Thanks!!
Cheers,
Mark
