HTML links to videos?

Greg0986 · 29 May 2012 at 18:59

I have made a small website for home that has information for all my movies and tv shows etc that I have backed up. Is there any way to create a link that opens the video? I want to be able to click the link and then VLC or MPC-HC opens with the selected video playing.

I know this is a long shot but worth a try XD

Cheers!

GravyMonster · 29 May 2012 at 19:04

A normal hyperlink to the video file (assuming it's a local file) should open it up in whatever program you have assigned to that extension.

Greg0986 · 29 May 2012 at 19:11

Ah. Strange, it threw up an error message when I tried that. I had to moves the html folder to the drive that the file was on in order for it to work. How do I do it when the files are on multiple drives?

Greg0986 · 29 May 2012 at 20:19

Ah, I got it working

. Is there anyway I could batch add files? I have a lot (more than 2000) that I would like to add.

GaryH-21 · 30 May 2012 at 00:02

Are they all in the same directory, or scattered about everywhere?

You could use javascript to list all the files in a directory (and subdirectories) that could automatically generate a link to the file

michaelp · 30 May 2012 at 08:57

If they are all over the place i would suggest putting them together for sure

Greg0986 · 30 May 2012 at 10:00

GaryH-21 said:
Are they all in the same directory, or scattered about everywhere?

You could use javascript to list all the files in a directory (and subdirectories) that could automatically generate a link to the file

I've got them all in one directory but in their own subdirectory.

GaryH-21 · 31 May 2012 at 22:49

bump this over the weekend and I'll see what I can work up if you want.

Workin 12 hour shifts right now, so no time until then

But essentially, to do it.... get Javascript to recursively list the contents of directories...