[streaming] Re: Dummies guide to streaming DVDs?

Christophe Massiot massiot at via.ecp.fr
Wed Mar 10 00:15:51 CET 2004


À (At) 22:35 +0000 9/03/04, Jonathan Melhuish écrivait (wrote) :
>Torsten Spindler wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 00:01, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
>>
>>>All I want to do is stream a DVD video over my network, from my 
>>>(headless) Linux server to a single Linux client.  I'd like to be 
>>>able to pause and skip the DVD from my client.  I don't see the 
>>>need to transcode it as I have a 100Mbps link between the two 
>>>machines.
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>I'm currently trying to do the same. One way to do this is:
>>
>>1) Place dvd in server
>>2) Start vlc on server with vlc -I dummy --extraintf http
>server:~# vlc -I dummy --extraintf http
>VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.92 Ourumov - (C)1996-2001 VideoLAN
>intf error: unknown option `http'
>
>Typing "vlc --novideo --noaudio -I dummy dvd:/dev/scd1 
>udp://192.168.0.124:1234" seems to set the DVD light blinking, but 
>no video shows up on the client (which I started with 'vlc 
>udp://@:1234' as instructed).
>
>Anybody got any ideas?

Do you know that VLC 0.2.92 is more than two years old ? Upgrade.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.

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