[streaming] Re: VLC as a VOD server

[Pablo Andrés Orellana Vega]

Hi,

this a mini How-To. I found It in the videolan forum. (I recommend use the
VLM configuration, it really work for me)

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To Quote:

*Video On Demand*
Basic example

First launch the vlc

*% vlc --ttl 12 -vvv --color -I telnet --telnet-password videolan
--rtsp-host 0.0.0.0:5554*

where:
*12* is the value of the TTL (Time To Live) of your IP packets (which means
that the stream will be able to cross 11 routers).
*telnet* launches the telnet interface of the vlc.
videolan is the password to connect to the telnet interface.
*0.0.0.0* is the host address.
*5554* is the port on which you stream.

Then you connect to the vlc telnet interface and create the vod object

new Test vod enabled
setup Test input my_video.mpg

You can access to the stream with:

*% vlc rtsp://server:5554/Test*

where:
*server* is the address of the streaming server (IP or DNS)
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OR YOU CAN fire up vlc's gui and select File-Open Network Stream- and select
rtsp and rtsp://server:5554/Test

*AND THEN* What Really works for me (to quote again, from up the page)

Configuration Files
A VLM configuration file is a list of command lines : one line corresponds
to one command line.

To create a configuration file, just edit a text file and type a list of VLM
commands. Beware of recursive calls: you an put a load (file) in a
configuration file which can lead to recursive inclusion of the same file
and result in VLC's crash.

As of versions > 0.8.1, any line where the first non white space character
is a # is considered as a comment.
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So anyways, your configuration file look like this:

new test vod enabled
setup test input test.mpg

new test2 vod enabled
setup test input test2.mpg

save it with your videos with a .vlm extension

and then, cd into the directory where you have your videos,
and fire up vlc by typing

*vlc --vlm-conf nameofconfigfile.vlm --ttl 12 -vvv --color -I telnet
--telnet-password videolan --rtsp-host 0.0.0.0:5554*


you know, I guess we could leave out the telnet and telnet-password flags,
now that we are feeding it via a vlm-conf
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Regards,

Pablo O.


2007/4/5, Ajmal, Humayun <Humayun_Ajmal at mentor.com>:
>
>  Hi,
>
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> I want to setup VLC as a VoD server in Windows .Anyone can list the steps?
> I have setup the IP and port in the Prefrences->VoD->RTSP VoD, but how to
> set the path for the contents the server will stream?
>
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>
> Thanks
>
> Humayun
>
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