[streaming] Re: VLC VoD Server -- does it *work*?

[Calin A. Culianu]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Michel Van den Bergh wrote:

> Calin A. Culianu wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't understand how VLC client can be working for you guys when
>> there is code explicitly in the client (even in 0.8.5) which *rejects*
>> servers that don't have the identification string "Real" or "Helix".
>> VLC Server seems to have the identification string "VLC Server", so
>> the client *rejects* the server!!
>
>
> If this is the problem why don't you just fix it yourself. It seems like
> a trivial thing.

Well I do and then the client segfaults!  So I guess there is a reason for 
that code -- it's a guard against client bugs with non-Real/Helix servers?

*Sigh*.  What I really don't understand is all these people claiming VLC 
client works with the server.  That has me downright baffled given the 
state of the sourcecode rejecting VLC servers outright..

-Calin

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