A Pre-History of Slashdot

Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by ballenf on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:44PM (#15413130)

I'd look into youtube-dl. I tried all the parental controls on Youtube, Netflix, Amazon and devices only to finally realize that my idea of what's suitable doesn't have an equivalent rating.

There are so many safe for any age videos that have a bunch of kids with the worst, most cynical attitudes and no respect for authority and then wholesome shows with "intense emotion" or whatever that get rated tv-14.

So I download everything and put it on a USB hard drive hooked to a media hub.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by Nition on Thursday October 05, 2017 @07:10PM (#15413272)

I've got an Intel NUC I could do this with. Is there a video player app for iOS that kids could use (i.e. Interface isn't super complex), that'd play remote media?

Edit: Looked into this myself just now. VLC Streamer looks decent, as does Infuse by Firecore.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by nathancahill on Thursday October 05, 2017 @09:38PM (#15413853)

Also check out Plex Server. It's awesome. The management side is particularly well done.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by Nition on Thursday October 05, 2017 @09:51PM (#15413892)

Thanks, will do.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by j_s on Thursday October 05, 2017 @08:47PM (#15413679)

Safari should work well enough with a webserver file listing of MP4s.

You could drag an icon to the desktop for an HTML page with thumbnails if it was necessary to get fancy.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by ballenf on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:55PM (#15419889)

VLC also has a great iOS app that can stream and/or download from a desktop running the companion app.

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