[streaming] Re: Other output messing the binary Stdout?

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

If you used --quiet you should be fine regardless.
I think it's more that stdout is a stream instead of a file, so VLC  
cannot go back in the file and update the headers with the correct  
information and stuff.

DJ

On 16-nov-2005, at 11:07, Polyphem wrote:

> Hello VLC-Community,
>
> I'm currently playing around with the binary Stdout option an run  
> into a problem.
>
> When I use
> standard{access=file,mux=asf,url='test.mpeg'}
>
> the resulting local file is healthy and plays in VLC and WMP. When  
> I try to capture the binary output from Stdout with
>
> standard{access=file,mux=asf,url=-}
>
> and than create the movie with an external program, it is  
> corrupted. I took hex look at the binaries and it seems that 99.9%  
> are identical. Only in the top 2-3 header rows and the bottom 2-3  
> footer rows the Stdout file looks sligtly different.
> I looked up the Stdout function here:
> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/file/trunk/modules/access_output/file.c
>
> Is it possible that these:
>
> msg_Dbg( p_access, "using stdout" );
> msg_Dbg( p_access, "file access output opened (`%s')", p_access- 
> >psz_name );
> msg_Dbg( p_access, "file access output closed" );
>
> come in my way? Are they also parsed to the Stdout and I have to  
> deactivate them somehow, or do those Messages need to be invoked by  
> a special debug option (which I did not found until now)?
>
> Anyone had this problem before? Is it possible that VLC mixes other  
> Stdout output into the stream? Invoked it with -q, --quiet, but are  
> there other parameters to tell VLC not to write other output to  
> Stdout?
>
> Thanks and Best Regards
>
>
>

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