Play video stored on the rasp from remote pc

[mcgyver83]

Hi, I attached to the raspberry an usb hdd with some videos. I installed xbmc to use the raspberry as mediacenter but now I want to see the videos from my laptop from remote.
How can I achieve that?

[mcgyver83]

None?

[mcgyver83]

I have the raspberry running xbmc attached to the tv, I have an usb hdd attached to the rasp with some videos.
I want to play these videos also from my laptop.
How can I do this?

[SirLagz]

I'm pretty sure XBMC would have some sort of DLNA server. Look into that.

[mcgyver83]

Ok, I'm going to check. So the key is to use DLNA.
I have also to find something to play video from dlna on my ubuntu.

[mcgyver83]

This is a remote interface to control remotely the play of something on the xmbc instance. It's not related to stream/push/play content from remote

[mcgyver83]

I want to play the rasp usb hdd attached video on a remote pc, my laptop.
This is my goal.
I don't want to start playing video from remote with remote interface

[elatllat]

smb or nfs will share your drive with your laptop. there is an smb client and server included in raspbmc.

[SirLagz]

VLC will play from DLNA servers on ubuntu

[mcgyver83]

Great!
I'll investigate!
nfs or smb VS dlna?
Which one is the best?

[SirLagz]

Great!
I'll investigate!
nfs or smb VS dlna?
Which one is the best?

I'd use DLNA. Much less hassle once you get it up and running.
Cross platform, Android / Apple / Windows / Linux / Mac will all be able to play from the same server without having to muck around with mounting / shares / etc.

[Slim44]

I use openelec distro of XBMC on my Pi, you can map the Pi to your PC in My Computer and then browse your media. For example mines located at \\192.168.1.10\Media\Media Storage(Name of HDD attached to Pi)

Using VLC i can then open any file stored on the HDD attached to the Pi and play on my PC. I would recommend using a cabled connection as wireless is not good enough for streaming large media files 4-6GB upwards probably wont work.

You will have to turn on UPnP and allow devices to control the Pi, this can be found in XBMC settings

Hope this helps

[mcgyver83]

Great!
So in this way is like a streaming, so I can start seeing the movie without end the complete transfert.
But where this feature is linked to xbmc?

I have a smb share configured on the rasp and I connect my desktop windows pc with this share, I'm able to see files in the external raspberry but xbmc isn't taken into the game yet.

[mcgyver83]

I tried again: in Nautilus on ubuntu 12.10 I added the ssh connection folder //192.168.1.7/Movies, browsed the folder and opened an avi file with VLC but it doesn't reproduce it.