[vlc-devel] Removing libvlc_vlm_*

Devin Heitmueller dheitmueller at ltnglobal.com
Wed Jul 11 20:57:16 CEST 2018


> On Jul 11, 2018, at 1:57 PM, RĂ©mi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> VLM is a proof-of-concept of multiple inputs in a single VLC process. It 
> achieves that with some ad-hoc configuration file/script syntax. Its usability 
> is not exactly great, but, subject to stream output limitations, it works.
> 
> AFAIK, "production" VLC users often just spawn one VLC process per input. The 
> only VLC feature that actually mandates VLM is the RTSP VoD server - which 
> hardly anybody uses. I guess though that a few people actually use VLM through 
> configuration files and/or the remote control or HTTP interfaces.

FWIW, mosaic generally also requires the use of VLM.

Devin

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