[streaming] Re: VLM syntax...an update

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Anthony Benjammin DeNardo III wrote:
> I have 5 hauppague cards encoding 5 separate streams.  if I launch 5 
> instances of VLC, I can see the SAP announcements, and all 5 "channels" 
> can be viewed.
> 
> I cannot: launch one instance of VLC ,and get VLM to stream these 5.  1 
> works fine, can't get the second to work
> I cannot: launch these streams from the command line.
> 
> from the GUI, I select Open Capture Device, which translates to pvr:// 
> pvr-device=/dev/video1.  I can't find anything in the vlc man page which 
> suggests this is an option from the command line.  the ONLY difference 
> in the 5 streams is the X in /dev/videoX.  the cards are assigned 
> video1-video5.  again, opening them individually per instance of VLC 
> works fine, even all of them simultaneously (with 5 instance of VLC).
> 
> this is not a stable solution for broadcasting our content.  have I 
> found a limit in VLC, or is someone else able to stream 5 streams from 5 
> capture devices in one box?  are there truly functions available from 
> the GUI which cannot be accessed via the command line or VLM?
> 
> 
VLC is capable of streaming from multiple cards. The real limit you 
should worry about is hardware.

It would help the videolan team enormously if you could provide us with 
the vlm-config commands and vlc commandline used in this endeavor. I 
assume you run vlc from a Linux system.

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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