VLC and VBrick

[Talbert, Scott]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christophe Massiot [mailto:massiot at via.ecp.fr] 
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 5:32 PM
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: RE: VLC and VBrick
> 
> >I am sure that the client is receiving the packets.  Here's how: I 
> >wrote a small C program that joins the multicast group and 
> receives the 
> >datagrams. It writes the data from each datagram to a file.  VLC can 
> >play this file just fine.
> 
> That's curious. Make sure that VLC listens to the right IP address 
> and port. Post the output of vlc -vvvvvvvvvv --stats on web page 
> somewhere.

Yes, netstat confirms that VLC is listening to the right port and IP
address.
I have posted the VLC output at:
http://www.techie.net/~talbert/vlc-output.txt

> >I also used the program to write the data to stdout and then 
> I told VLC 
> >to read from /dev/stdin.  This worked, sort of.  VLC was displaying 
> >video, but not very well (probably due to buffering and scheduling 
> >issues).
> 
> It should work better with
> vlc -
> or
> vlc stream:/dev/stdin

'vlc -' works about the same as 'vlc /dev/stdin' (not very well).
'vlc stream:/dev/stdin' actually works well.

Scott

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