[streaming] Re: vls vs. vlc

[Larry Kelly]

Hi Alexis...

  Thanks for the response.  One thing I want to make clear is that I'm not
faulting anyone for VLS/VLC development, nor am I faulting VLS/VLC.  In
fact, I hold the developer's in the highest regard.  These guys are awesome.
They have inspired me to also try to contribute if possible.

  What I am trying to do is to give some input as to what might give the
users the best of both worlds.  Thanks to your message, I now understand why
the two programs came about with such different internals.  But, my point is
that would it not help both sets of developers to have some standard common
interfaces for functions which would need to exist in both?  IE:  Both
programs can be used to stream DVD's, and both programs can stream other
MPEG2 and some MPEG1 files, etc.  It just sounds like a good mechanism for
handling this would be to start with a good common input module, and work
from there.

  I would be willing to invest some time in looking at pulling the best
input capabilities from both into a common library.  But, the intent of my
post was to see if anyone else was working on that already, or looking at
massive changes to the input modules on either VLS or VLC.

  I just did not see any sort of a roadmap for VLS or VLC development on any
of the websites, and did not know if some commonality had ever been
discussed or even developed.  Wanted to be sure I wasn't investing time
developing new code which someone else had already started to generate.

  An additional question -- has anyone looked at creating output code that
would periodically inject the MPEG1 header info into an outgoing stream in a
transparent fashion?  A number of MPEG1 files I have come up against do not
contain periodic pieces of the header info, and therefore won't stream
properly.  It seems like some sort of intelligent output code could solve
this problem without having to change the original MPEG1 file.

  Thanks --

  -Larry Kelly

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