[vlc] Re: Playback of raw PCM audio / Real-time muxing

[Sigmund Augdal]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:51:26PM -0600, Mitchell Mebane wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have a project where I need to be able to take a network audio stream 
> and save it to disk while playing it. After looking at several 
> solutions, I believe VLC is currently the best suited to my needs.
Which protocol are used here? If it is rtp then you need a .sdp file for vlc
to play this source. if the mjpeg also is in rtp then you can write one sdp
for both and vlc should be able to mux them.

Sigmund

> 
> The file I am trying to open is streaming data as raw PCM, signed 
> 16-bit, little-endian, mono, 8000 Hz. When I try to stream it directly, 
> it doesn't work. When I use the "Dump raw input" option, I get a data 
> stream I can import into Audacity, but that doesn't fulfill my need to 
> playback in real time while recording.
> 
> I also would like the ability to open this stream as well as an MJPEG 
> stream and play them in sync while muxing the data and saving it to 
> disk. I have been unable to find an option in VLC to open separate audio 
> and video streams. Is this possible?
> 
> If VLC can't do these things, are there any other products, free or 
> commercial, that can?
> 
> I'm using VLC 0.8.1 under Windows XP.
> 
> I've been looking at the VLC how-to, and in Chapter 4 
> <http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html#id2529330> of the 
> manual, it mentions "VLC should be able to recognize the file type. If 
> it does not, you can force demultiplexer and decoder (see below)." 
> However, the document does not actually cover this topic. I see that vlc 
> has a --codec option, but I don't know what options to pass to this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mitchell Mebane
> 
> -- 
> The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
> --Aristotle
> 

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