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- filefly, on 10/10/2007, -2/+35I don't care if you're an Apple fanboy or not... that's just freaking cool.
- calgone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Or if you weren't being a douche, you'd realize this is for when you are away from home. You just use port 80 to stream the content from your WAN IP address.
- chrisxkelley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9... how about a mac mini for $599 ?
- RadicalEdward, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13On the touch this doesn't work, you have to embed the file in a page, which sux.
- Me1000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7cmd+space
then type 'terminal'
open the application - xGrill, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6you can also do this with mp3s. If you really wanted to, just set your Apache server folder to your iTunes music folder.
- franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Safari on the Touch can't view directories on a web server? That makes no sense at all.
- SpacePirate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6.m4v files will not load by default. To fix this, you have to modify the mime.types file in /etc/httpd, and add "video/x-m4v m4v" to the list (requires sudo), and restart your webserver (turn off Web Sharing, and turn it back on). Afterwards, it works perfectly.
- franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Check your permissions on the Movies folder, and make sure you're pointing your browser at the right IP address. There are a lot of things it could be, but I had a little trouble diagnosing the exact nature of the problem from "no dice."
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7I'm guessing you should leave the predictions to Miss Cleo.
- jaym, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It should be read/execute access to 'Others' in the movies directory (not read/write). Execute allows you to browse the directory, and read allows you to read the movie files.
- aaronmcdonald, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Thats getting old now
- vassar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"sudo chmod 755 ~/Music" works for me! Thanks!
- akf2000, on 10/10/2007, -7/+10Really?? What a pain in the arse, thanks Steve, you ***** software-crippler.
- blackjack75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You could easily write a PHP file that builds that page for you though with an lovely iphone-fomatted listing of your files. There's a package out there to install php in the included apache webserver with a pair of clicks.
I'd love to write that one.. but my country hasn't been blessed by the iPhone yet. - wonginator1221, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I'm getting a 403 forbidden after i place the symbolic link. Help?
- SpacePirate, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5You also need to ensure your Movies folder has read/write access granted to Others. Otherwise, you'll just get 403 Forbidden.
- Me1000, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Why not just use Telekinesis?
it is free and easy to setup, then you can use any file (not just your media in iTunes) - adamchristopher, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3thank you guys very much.
only now its giving me a "In:command not found" every time i try to make the "link" - lpmusix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3uh, you mean just read, why would they need to write it...?
- SpacePirate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3There is a Terminal application in your Utilities folder.
- thenewkasanova, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2ln: illegal option -- /
usage: ln [-fhinsv] file1 file2
ln [-fhinsv] file ... directory
link file1 file2
That's what I get when I type in the command linking to my Movies folder. Please help. - franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3This works great for me, using my iPhone and Mac on the same network. The only problem is, I can't open any of the larger movies, like the feature length ones, because "Safari can't open the page because it is too large."
For TV shows and music videos, though, this works great! - Drizzit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Wrong,
Works on my iPod Touch with a Linux webserver using a NFS mount to the directory it's being served from.
Still trying to figure out why m4v plays and m4p does not. - blackjack75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2be very careful with the spaces.
- wonginator1221, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3oh... no spaces in symbolic links allowed. My iPod touch just tried to download the video. It all came up as garbled text.
- stalefries, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"open the terminal" means to open the application in your /Applications/Utilities folder called "Terminal"
- JamesWilson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You don't write movies with your iphone? Hm. Just me then.
- melmyfinger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2How to do this??
Must stream porn NOW! - JamesWilson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You have to buy it, comes as part of the iLoaf suite
- willclarke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This works - you have to "sudo chmod 755 ~/Music" but that should do it.
However I keep getting an error that "the file is too large" when I do it. Maybe it's because my iPhone is too full? I'll try deleting some stuff and try again. - Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sliced bread is an iPhone web app? Link please.
- pradador, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You could always learn a little about Apache web server and change the root directory to avoid symbolic links. Pair that up with a dyndns dynamic hostname, and you can even make a domain that points to the media folder.
- Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm sure it can do directories - it sounds like it doesn't want to open the file directly. But I'm sure there's some software out there that'll read the directory contents and spit out the appropriate code so you can view them embedded on the page.
- SpacePirate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You raise a valid question. But you get the idea. ;)
- bking, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not working for me. I keep getting 404's, even after following the instructions to a tee.
- mentor972, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12 Steps taken out... make a directory in your Webserver/documents/ folder called "Movies"
Then type the terminal command the RIGHT WAY!...
Example: ln -s volumes/macintosh HD/users/yourusername/music/iTunes/iTunes music/movies Movies
Notice there is no forward slash in front of volumes. Also, if you have spaces in directory names, put a backslash in there...
Example: if the directory is "itunes music" then type "itunes music"
Hope that helps. - Phipman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't know why this guy is getting dugg down, because telekinesis is the best iphone web app since online sliced bread.
- t86y, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Anyone got any advice or maybe some step by steps on how I could stream my videos/music outside of network? It was mentioned in the article, but I am not sure how to do this.
- jaym, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If set up right, the iPhone should have no idea that it is visiting a symbolic link. Most important tho is to give read/execute access to 'Others' in the movies directory (not read/write as SpacePirate suggested above. Execute allows you to browse the directory, and read allows you to read the movie files.
- diggmeplease, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have the same prob as thenewkasanova. Whats the prob?
- kashem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I can't seem to get this to work. The only difference I can figure out is that I have my itunes library on a different drive. I successfully create the symbolic link, but all I get is a 404 on the phone.
- mentor972, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Me too, WTF?
- gothicform, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Oh wow. There's a workaround now so you can view these on the iPhone. How cool it doesn't show up as a proper portable storage device with the necessary player (like say my archos) and instead you have to use a work around. KEWL!!!
- JasonHawkins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Has anybody actually gotten this to work yet? I've tried all sorts of variations trying to create the link, but with very little success.
I can access the default Apache page from my iPhone when I try to connect. However, when I try tagging on "/Movies" it eventually tells me it can't find the server.
These are some of the paths I've tried creating the link with (I have limited experience with the command line):
ln -s "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Jason/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Movies" Movies
ln -s Volumes/MacintoshHD/Users/Jason/Music/iTunes/iTunesMusic/Movies Movies
ln -s Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Jason/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Movies Movies
The first option produces the best results. It creates a an alias for "Movies" in "/Library/WebServer/Documents/" which I can navigate to from the computer via the browser just as you'd expect. It also works on other machines using "http://10.0.1.7/Movies", but not on my iPhone.
Any ideas? Thanks. - Wander2000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hmm, any chance we could get Perian or Mplayer in the iPhone? Most of my stuff isn't in native quicktime format.
- adairnic, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1where are all the comments?
- mentor972, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Edit: Don't need to make the movies folder
- mentor972, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1and what does watching videos on your iPhone from a folder on your hard drive have to do with iTunes?
- adamchristopher, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1what does "sudo chmod 755 ~/Music" mean?
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