Streaming Video From Rackspace Cloud Server Using VLC Player is more easy than you can basically think ! You can completely control the sharing and playing. This introductory article on Streaming Video From Rackspace Cloud Server Using VLC Player is for personal usage or for sharing GNU musics or media only.
Streaming Video From Rackspace Cloud Server Using VLC Player : Basics of the Basics
This Streaming Video From Rackspace Cloud Server Using VLC Player is an introductory article as most common users might find difficultly in configuration without a video guide. We are basically post processing the video. But the next paragraph will give you enough resource and guide for those who can build one self.
Streaming Video From Rackspace Cloud Server Using VLC Player : Steps
Morons do not understand, making a thing complex makes the technology unusable for a basic user. It is basically very easy. Just understand the basic way we have created it :
- First create a Remote VNC Ubuntu desktop with Rackspace Cloud Server.
- Second install VLC Player on it. This needs no guide. Anyone can install VLC Player. The difference is – you will be installing using the TightVNC Player.
- Port 8080 normally will be open.
- Here is the documentation for setup of the HTML webpage (do not read all, we have made it easy) :
1 | http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/apb.html |
As basically it is a webserver, not your desktop, you can use .htaccess only to allow your IP.
Full video guide will be available soon, but you can try yourself too. CHMOD the music folders to 777 (what can be exploited with a music file…). Otherwise it might throw error. If you listen 8 hours of music per day for one month, it will cost you hardly $20 / month.
