Anyone know a good way to stream videos from a Debian server to an Android Device?

hostnoob

MP4, MKV and AVI videos

On a PC you can just open the URLs in VLC, but this doesn't work in Android's VLC Player (I think because it doesn't support webserver passwords.

Silvenga

Plex (or MX Player if you don't want all that - can open network streams).

hostnoob

@Silvenga said:
Plex (or MX Player if you don't want all that - can open network streams).

Thanks, I just tried MX Player and that wouldn't allow me to play a password protected HTTP stream either

What would be ideal is a video player that lets you set a HTTP URL (for a directory) and store a username/password and when you load the app you can select any video and it will stream it.

I guess I will have to look into Plex. Do you know how much RAM it uses?

netomx

@hostnoob said:
I guess I will have to look into Plex. Do you know how much RAM it uses?

http://user:password@server/file.mp4

Works for me

Silvenga

hostnoob said: Do you know how much RAM it uses?

Less than 20MB on my server. You might also try Samba shares too. Have you tried accessing your server through a browser, then clicking a video. Hopefully the browser will detect the link and open it in MX Player (and maybe provide Basic Auth).

hostnoob

@netomx said:
Works for me

You're right, I was just expecting a prompt for the user/pass.

Thanks

Jeffrey

Plex worked great.