HTTP Media Server for VLC

We ( actually I and some of my friends ) needed to watch movies and listen to songs wirelessly from a desktop which has all the hard disks attached to it. SMB, AFP, etc were too much of a hassle to set up and not to mention slow, jittery performance. I am looking at you Mac OS ( SMB 1 in 2016 ?). Hence the python script.

Shows the playlist directly in vlc. So that you can click and play :). Both random and incremental seek in vlc is supported. Playing directly in the browser is supported too.

Requires netifaces other than python standard libary. Have fun!

PyPi package - videopy

Installation

pip install videopy

Usage

videopy [-h] [--directory DIRECTORY] [--port PORT] [--foreground] [--stop] [--restart] [--pid PID]

optional arguments:

-h, --help show this help message and exit

--directory DIRECTORY, -d DIRECTORY Directory where the media is located

--port PORT, -p PORT Port the Media Server will bind to

--foreground, -f Start the Media Server in the foreground

--stop Stop the Media Server.

--restart Restart the Media Server

--pid PID Location to store the pid file

Watch

Just run vlc http://[ip-address of the machine running the service]:[1149 or the port the service is running at]/vlc

To play on a html5 enabled browser use http://[ip-address of the machine running the service]:[1149 or the port the service is running at]

Misc

Hope it helps you as much as it's helping us.

Issues and Pull Requests are welcome.

But most importantly have fun.