[vlc-devel] VOD : freeze while the multicast input is not there

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le jeudi 2 octobre 2008 18:26:28 Sébastien Escudier, vous avez écrit :
> Quoting Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem at videolan.org>:
> > > Right, and I see no other way to achieve this (sending the same
> > > broadcast input to clients, on demand, with vlc).
> >
> > Using broadcast mode...
>
> How ?
> Maybe with a software which accept clients request for the stream, and then
> create a vlc broadcast output for each one ?

That's the whole point of the broadcast mode.

> Vlc vod do this automatically.

No. VOD creates one input per client. Contrary to broadcast, this allows the 
client to seek or pause. Obviously, if the input does not support seek nor 
pause, this is a complete waste (plus you get all the VoD bugs - broadcast is 
much more stable).

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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