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Re: "is it possible watch videos without the web and https?"
RSS torrent TV show you van download but i guess you still download the magnet from http...
Sep 24 · 3 months ago
💎 istvan · Sep 24 at 16:49:
Who would have thought it would be so hard to get around the dominant Internet protocol of the last 30 years.
I use a NAS which only exposes SSH/SFTP. I use it for everything: backups, git and also videos only using SFTP. I just use a dedicated player I downloaded on my FireTV-Cube (yes, yes. I know).
You can also watch videos from the NAS by giving the sftp:// link directly to MPV. Maybe also works with VLC.
👺 daruma · Sep 24 at 18:29:
VLC also used to have TV channels... I guess that didn't go through HTTPS.
🚀 DdlyH · Sep 24 at 21:52:
You could do that watching Star Wars over telnet thing?=> telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl/
🦆 CitySlicker · Sep 24 at 22:32:
Yes, you can watch videos without the web. The question is what videos are you trying to watch? Many devices can record and play videos without access to the internet. For example, I can record a video on my phone share it with my computer over USB or Bluetooth and never connect to the internet let alone http. I could also buy a VHS and play it on my VCR entirely without the use of the web.
Are you asking for help with a specific problem you are having or just curious?
💀 requiem · Sep 24 at 23:14:
rtmp:// and rtsp:// used to be a thing. And also in the good ol’days there was also PopcornTime where you could stream videos through bittorrent. Shoutcast / Icecast can also be used to stream video.
However none of these are on-demand. For on-demand video streaming you could use sg like mpv to open YouTube videos. Whether it fetches via HTTPS - likely but you don’t get as much tracking as the HTML content is only processed but not rendered.
😎 flipperzero · Sep 26 at 19:35:
consult the mimetype page on auragem's search engine, there's a multitude of video files there. cheers.
— auragem.letz.dev/search/mimetype/
is it possible watch videos without the web and https?