[vlc] Re: vlc options on a windows box

[Keir Vaughan-Taylor]

Thanks for that it is mosty helpful. The bat file is working and I 
hadn't come across the options list and would have been flumuxed for 
some time without the hints. Thanks!

I can get the option format from the information field at the top of the 
GUI but there is still some judicious translating to get it into the 
syntax from the options page. I might work it out given enough time but 
it would be really nice if the documentation explained the correlation 
between the gui feedback syntax and the command line syntax

Using the bat command file by adding appropriate options I've got the 
program to run. Looking at the VLC GUI after it starts running shows 
that it knows the correct capture card. This is a good start.  I so far 
haven't deduced the option syntax to get it to stream locally. Also  to 
set the streaming to be say http with a particular port number.

 I tried --sout-display to get local display but this isn't working  I 
tried --access="http,mux=ts,url=192.168.1.100" to get http streaming and 
--sout-transcode-vcodec="mp4v,vb=1024,scale=1"    What am I doing wrong? 
A few more hints would be very appreciated.

For your interest:     I am doing a job for a university laboratory. We 
have the camera observing a robot that is performing scientific 
experiments. Users can control the robot using VNC but VNC video 
feedback is poor so I am using VLC and "broadcasting" as http and the 
users can watch the robot operation on Mozilla. The users are all 
chemists and I don't want them to have to learn the GUI entries. I need 
the VLC to start up automatically with all the appropriate settings.

I agree that  the Windows operating system is pretty confining.

Christophe Mutricy wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 29, 05 at 10:01 +1000, Keir Vaughan-Taylor wrote:
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>>I wish to start VLC when a Windows machine starts so that a number of 
>>options usually selected with the GUI are in place on start up. Easy to 
>>put an alias in the start up folder but there is a problem.
>>
>>The problem is that there is a 
>>limit on the string length of options that you can pass and more complex 
>>streaming options can't be added.
>>
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>Crappy OS
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>>Is there a way of specifying a file where the start up options can be 
>>put. Can anyone suggest a method to do this
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>You can do a .bat file ie a simple text file with your command in it.
>And then made a link to this file in startup.
>
>Btw, i don't know if you already found that, but could be useful
>http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/VLC_command-line_help
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>
>hth,
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