[streaming] long pauses between clips

[Mario R. Carro]

Nevermind: transcode + gather + sout-keep *completely* solved my problem. Am 
I missing something?

I guesss I should have googled a little more before posting. Sorry for the 
noise... Anyway, VLC is just great!

Thanks,
MRC

On Thursday 24 April 2008 18:46:48 Mario R. Carro wrote:
> Hi, this is my first message to the list. I'm trying stream playlists
> MPEG2 transport stream clips at SD resolution over raw UDP on a GB
> network.
>
> I use VLC to generate the streaming slaved to the main application,
> controlling it by it's telnet interface. At the correct moments I start
> the playback and then use the enqueue command to continue feeding the
> playlist (while a clip is being played I enqueue the next one and so on).
> So far so good.
>
> The streaming goes OK all the time except for an annoying detail: there's
> long delays between the clips. One or two seconds, I guess. Given that
> some of the clips are quite short (around 10 seconds), two seconds is a
> noticeable pause that I would like to minimize as much as possible.
>
> So the questions to any caritative soul out there are:
> - Is there any way I could make disappear the gap between the clips?
> - If not, is there any way I can help VLC so the gap is shorter?
> - I hoped that queueing the clips in advance would allow them to be
> preloaded and ready to be played when the previous one ends, but that
> seems not to be happening, isn't it? Why not? Is that possible?
>
> Thanks!
> MRC
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