[vlc] Re: Advertising available programs?

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004, Josef Wolf wrote :
> Hi!
> 
> I have created a setup where several programs can be requested from a server
> via several (http) URLs.  I can get a Playlist with
> 
>   vlc http://server/x http://server/y http://server/z
> 
> This works pretty well.  But I would like to go one level of indirection
> further: I'd like the server to advertise which programs are available.
> Something like:
> 
>   vlc --program-list http://server/programlist
> 
> and vlc would get the list of available programs from this URL.  Is such a
> thing possible with vlc?
> 

In the case of http streaming, the easiest would certainly be to
generate a playlist (m3u) file and put it on the website. Automatic
generation of this file will probably require some scripting however...

-- 
BigBen

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