[vlc] Re: howto setup VLC server like VLS ?

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Nice to hear the whole story :)

Anyway vlc can autoload vlm confs on startup.
I'm not sure what the cmdname is. Since I use the wxwin Gui, but u can set
it in the preferences under advanced>other.
It works quite well,

Cheers
Jonas Larsen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf
> Of Jim Duda
> Sent: 29. august 2005 17:53
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc] howto setup VLC server like VLS ?
> 
> I've been playing with streaming from both VLS and VLC from my PVR-350
> card.
> Both VLS and VLC seemed to work *okay*, but not perfect.  I found there
> was
> some video and/or audio stuttering at times.
> 
> Then I *really* RTFM and noticed that --cr-average 1000 is required for
> the
> IVTV drivers.  That made a huge difference and vlc seems really solid now.
> I now want to transition from VLS to VLC, which seems to be the preferred
> recommended approach since VLS isn't in active development much anymore.
> 
> I'm currently using the VLS telnet management interface such that I can
> start and stop the stream based upon a simple telnet connection (I'm using
> a telnet socket for control).  With VLS, this works really well.  I simply
> start VLS as a daemon process and use the telnet interface to "start" and
> "stop" the stream on demand.  It's important for /dev/video to be closed
> when the stream has been stopped.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to get the same behavior with VLC using the
> VLM telnet interface of VLC.  I cannot seem to figure out how to get this
> to work.  I want to start VLC as a deamon and have it ready to stream the
> PVR whenever a telnet interface issues a "control play" command.
> 
> I think I understand how the vlm configuration files work.  What I cannot
> seem to figure out is how to get vlc to read a configuration file when vlc
> is launched.  Is this possible?
> 
> So, I want a configuration file like this:
> 
> new livetv broadcast enabled
> setup livetv input pvr://
> setup livetv output #standard{mux=ts,access=udp,url="224.0.0.1"}
> control livetv stop
> 
> I'm hoping the above configuration file would setup the livetv stream and
> leave /dev/video closed until another telnet session opened up and issued
> "control livetv play"
> 
> How can I get vlc (vlm) to read such a configuration file on startup?
> 
> Jim
> 
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