[vlc] Re: VLC Input from Pipe

Benjamin Pracht bigben+spam at videolan.org
Sat Nov 5 18:37:05 CET 2005


On Fri, Nov 04, 2005, Angus Davis wrote :
> ./test-mpeg2 -r 0 | vlc -I rc -vvv /dev/stdin --sout 
> '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,url=10.0.1.197:8080}' --rc-fake-tty
> 
> It does not work.  It reacts to the MPEG2 TS data as though they are 
> commands, generating errors such as: "unknown command `?+'_U`.?f', type 
> `help' for help"  Instead of "-vvv /dev/stdin" I have also tried "-vvv - "
> 

Well, both these syntaxes work here. You can try file://- too...

> I have tried but failed to find any clear explanation of how to "pipe" 
> an input into vlc.  Is there a special URI syntax to specify that VLC 
> will be called in a piped fashion?

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Benjamin Pracht

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