[vlc] Re: how automatically quit after playing movie in opie-vlc

[Gildas Bazin]

On Sunday 30 March 2003 20:16, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
> > 
> Well it is vlc:quit and it does not work on opie, gpe, redhat when using 
> a network input. Thus "opie-vlc udp://@:1234 vlc:quit" or "vlc 
> udp://@:1234 vlc:quit" does not work. I verified this with 
> vlc-0.5.3-test1 and assume vlc-0.5.2 has the same omission. Could 
> someone verify this?
> 
> Why doesn't it work with network inputs? Well a network input cannot 
> detect an EOF situation. It could happen that no packets arrive during 
> some time, but a little later there are new packets. So when is the 
> stream ended then? There is no way to tell for sure.
> 
> This situation can only be fixed when client and server talk directly 
> with each other, e.g. with RTSP.
> 

True, I forgot that.
An alternative would be to use the http input of vlc (that would mean 
unicast of course).

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Gildas
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