Video Streaming from a Public Directory

Stream videos from a public directory hosted on your server directly into VLC media player using Node.js.

Why this?

• Automatically fetch and list video links hosted on your server.

• Stream videos one by one in VLC player.

• Easily start or continue from any video.

How to use this?

Step 1: Fetch Video URLs

• Open the URL of the directory in browser.
• Open getVideoUrls.js and copy the code and paste in browser console.
• It’ll give you an array of video links. Just copy that.

Step 2: Add URLs in links.js

Open links.js and paste the copied video URLs array there.

Example content of links.js:

const videoUrls = [
  "http://your-vps-server.com/videos/video1.mp4",
  "http://your-vps-server.com/videos/video2.mp4",
  // ...other video URLs
];

Step 3: Start Streaming the Videos

Open the terminal and run this command:

npm run start

This will open VLC and start streaming the videos one after another.

Step 4: Continue from Any Video

If you want to resume from a particular video (say the 3rd one), just change the index value in the video.js file.

Future Plan:

Next, we’ll automate video link fetching using Puppeteer, so URLs will be scraped directly from public directories without manual copy-pasting.