Being a linux using iPad owner is a bit of pain. As there really isn’t good way to easily transfer files from computer to iPad. Or so I thought, until I again decided to do some googling. I don’t know why I hadn’t found this info earlier. But anyway, here goes.
There are only three steps to take
1. Start webserver
2. Open page with browser
3. Watch videos
First I found my way to this page. From there I found most of the info needed. I hadn’t realized that I could start basic webserver using Python.
python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()"
But alas, it didn’t work for me. I got following error:
ImportError: No module named SimpleHTTPServer
Back to google. Where I found this page. Things have changed when moving to Python3 and new command for the same effect is:
python3 -m http.server
For viewing the videos I used OPlayer as mentioned in the first article. There might be other options as well but OPlayer works for me. In OPlayer you just point built in browser to your computers ip-addres and click on file you want to watch. You have option of either downloading or streaming the selected file. I had better luck with downloading and that allows for offline use as well.
