[streaming] Re: Piped input to VLC

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005, Epelde Gorka wrote :
> 3.- Going back to the original question on the thread, isn't there any
> way to
> control it through VLM? As i told before i was thinking in piping the
> stream to
> vlc and working from the VLM. Maybe using more than one pipe. The idea
> VOD is to offer
> 10 programs and to send the requested ones. This is because, the medium,
> for example 
> wifi, can't support those 10 programs. Using the way above, if i want to
> change the 
> channel i have to enter the server through ssh stop all the streamings
> and execute a
> new command line. 
> 
> I have been testing the use of pipes with normal command line trying:
> 
> -Normal pipes: 
> 	1. stream | vlc 
> 	2. Inside vlc opening /dev/stdin 
> 	3. Choose a program
> 	Results: Few seconds of viewing, looks like too slow (messages
> output)
> -Named pipes:
> 	1. mkfifo pipevlc
> 	2. stream > pipevlc
> 	3. Inside vlc opening pipevlc
> 	4. Choose a program
> 	Results: Same as above.
> -Vlc command line way
> 	1. stream | vlc - 
> 	2. Choose a program
> 	Results: Works OK.
> 
> How is the "-" treated in VLC? Isn't the input a usual pipe?
> 
> I was thinking in opening multiple pipes for the stream, one for each
> program, 
> because i think that pipe is one to one.
> 

You could try using vlc stream://pipevlc, or stream:///dev/stdin ... It
might help.

-- 
Benjamin Pracht

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