[streaming] Re: streaming functionality - vlc vs. vls

[Gildas Bazin]

On Friday 11 April 2003 04:15, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the big difference at this point between streaming
> in vlc and streaming in vls is as follows:
> 
> (note I'm using GNU/Linux as my reference)
> 
>  - no DVB in vlc
False. Unless you are talking about the LinuxTV DVB drivers supports. We do 
have a satellite access plugin but I'm not sure it is maintained and in a 
working state anymore. Though that could easily be fixed.

>  - more MUXers in vlc
>  - more audio and video formats in vlc
>  - no IPv6 in vlc
False. VLC fully supports IPV6.

>  - no telnet interface in vlc
True but there is a "remote control" interface that could be used for this 
purpose. Adding a telenet interface shouldn't be very hard either.

>  - and no "interface" API for future interface development in vlc.
I would rather say: no clean API for interface development (for the moment 
at least).

> Question #2: if it is, what's the future development status for vls?
> Aside from the telnet interface, why would I use vls instead of vlc??
> 

Can't really answer these questions as I'm not involved in vls development. 
But I guess one advantage of vls could be that it is more lightweight than 
vlc and thus should be more efficient at what it does. It could also be 
more stable for the same reason, althought I'm not exactly sure it is ;)

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Gildas
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