[vlc] streaming output question(s)

[Alexis Guerin]

Hello,

I am giving a try to the streaming feature of VLC 0.5.1 and i have a few 
question about it.

 - It doesn't seem to be possible to send the video output both to the network 
(or file) and to screen display, or better, to the network, to screen display 
AND to a file.
Is there any plan to implement that? That would be a great feature.

- What are exactly the MPEG-4 streaming features of vlc?
On the streaming feature page of your web site, it is written MPEG PS/TS muxer 
and AVI muxer. These 3 format are available via in the interface for output 
to a file, but only the TS muxer is available for output to the network.
So my question is : how is the MPEG-4 compressed stream muxed in a TS stream? 
Is it the same as for an MPEG-2 streams? Is it a "standard" (common)  way to 
stream MPEG-4, and is VLC the only client able to read such a stream?

- I tried to stream a file containing MPEG-4 video (DIVX) and MP3 audio (I 
also tried the same file with AC3 audio instead of MP3 --> same result), and 
it is worked, but the video is bad during a few seconds (during 5-10s I can 
mostly see gray blocks on the screen) and it then come back to the normal 
quality.
Have someone else seen this problem or i am doing something wrong?
The MPEG-4 file plays fine on VLC without streaming so it is not a corrupted 
file , and it's not a bandwidth pb either since I can stream MPEG-2 file 
without any pb.

- A last question is about transcoding. Does anyone know if it is possible to 
make VLC use stdin as an input? What I want want to do is to send the output 
of transcode or mencoder to vlc.
but it might actually not even be possible to send the output of mencoder on 
stdin... any comments?

Thanks for your comments,
And thanks for this great software!! These new streaming output capabilities 
are very interesting, especially the divx streaming one.

Alexis
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