[vlc] Re: Video On Demand using FTP

Sigmund Augdal sigmunau at stud.ntnu.no
Mon Oct 6 17:32:53 CEST 2003


On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:25:24PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> "corentin hache" <corentin_hache at hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Do you know if it's possible to make Video On Demand using FTP instead
> > of FTP.
> 
> Of course it's possible.  I don't know if anyone actually does it, or
> the software exists, though.
The software exists and it's name is VLC. VLC can play from ftp servers.

> > Because HTTP protocol doesn't support files bigger than 1GBytes.
> 
> Doesn't HTTP allow the size to be unspecified?
I've never heard of such a limit, and I've spend quite some time reading
that spec.

Sigmund

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