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 Watch the video files you have on your home linux box remotely!
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Ok this is way cool! you can stream the video files that you have on your home Linux system to your work system. Better yet via ssh/ssl no one but you will know what it is! I was able to do this simply by firing up vlc and using the streaming wizard under "file". The trick is to use http ( I leave it at the default of port 8080 ). When I made the ssh connection I port forwarded 8080. Thus when I ran VLC on the system that I'm sshing from I point it to the network stream "http://localhost:8080" and viola! I'm looking at the file I picked on my home system. Even though it's going through a ssl tunnel the video looks dead on, crystal clear and no audio pops. The cool side effect is that anyone looking at network traffic will see a normal ssh connection and will hopefully assume that large files are being moved via sftp or something.
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