[streaming] Re: Controlling VLC

[Stefan Seyfried]

"Richard Ham" <rich-lists at edit-co.com> writes:
 
> The perl script that was sent by Stefan is currently having dup2, pipe

wow, that is behind my scope. In fact, this record.pl script was the
first time me using "fork/exec" - if i had known that vlc could be
talked to on stdin i would probably just have used
"open(VLC,"|vlc --someoptions");
:-) but i'm still learning. Another small thing i programmed last
weekend was a "video on demand-server", which reads a channel name from
stdin and then starts "vls -d udp:@address dvb:"Channel Name" since
i could avoid digging through the telnet interface of vls and also avoided
a strange VLS lockup which occured after a lot of DVB channel switching.
This must happen since my wife and kids are using this system to watch
and record TV and i am often away from home :-))

> and so on added so I can talk to vlc during its life span, and issue
> commands and recieve the results. When I get some more time after
> dinner, I'll get into it and see what happens......

Well, maybe we could get together a bunch of useful tools which could
go into some sort of contrib directory, so not everyone has to start
over from scratch when inventing new innovative uses of videoLAN :-)

regards,

   Stefan
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 different places, just write a Unix operating system." -- [Linus Torvalds]

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