Hi All, > > I am running Linux Mint 13 on my laptop in which I have a collection > of movies and TV series. My bro an iPhone 5 on which he likes to watch > them and i watch them on my laptop. Currently I use iTunes on Windows > (its a shame that i dual-boot for this alone) to transfer to iPhone. > Since many of formats are unsupported on Iphone, I use Handbrake to > convert to mp4 and then copy them over which is a tedious process. > > One thing that I have in mind is to setup a local media Server that > will host all this content and probably transcode + stream the content > and access via wi-fi? > > http://alternativeto.net/software/plex/ - Options I have looked at are > 1) Plex 2) XMBC 3) Subsonic > > But some of them do not have an iPhone app that can be installed > freely. Tried Air Video, it works well in Windows though with limited > features. > > Am looking for FOSS applications that work in Linux env to do the job > ? Any ideas / prior usage experience, please share? Guidance will be > much appreciated. >
You can try with MediaTomb- Opensource UPnP media server for streaming the media through WiFi. http://mediatomb.cc/ Am sure you can find lot of players for DLNA/UPnP streaming Video/Audio.MediaTomb is also providing an web-based interface for playing Videos. > -- > Cheers, > Anand Radhakrishnan > When there is a drive, there is a path. [C:\>] > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > -- Siji Sunny _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
