[vlc] Re: VLC Input from Pipe

Derk-Jan Hartman hartman at videolan.org
Wed Nov 9 12:10:41 CET 2005


Broken tydemux .
It was an issue with a version of VLC.

DJ


On 8-nov-2005, at 20:56, Angus Davis wrote:

> On 11/8/05 11:27 AM, Benjamin Pracht wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005, Angus Davis wrote :
>>
>>> Thanks, that was helpful, but I am still not having success.   My  
>>> syntax is:
>>>
>>> cat stream.ts | vlc --intf=dummy --rc-fake-tty -vvv /dev/stdin -- 
>>> sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,url=10.0.1.197:8080}'
>>>
>>> in lieu of "-vvv /dev/stdin/" I have also tried (none worked):
>>> stream:///dev/stdin
>>> file://dev/stdin
>>> file://-
>>>
>>
>> Well, there seems to be bug in the id3 module that makes it crash  
>> when
>> getting probed. Could you provide a backtrace ?
>>
> I actually think the problem is in the next step, where it tries to  
> pick a demuxer.  I am not too familiar with how to use gdb so I am  
> not sure how to generate a backtrace.  I will RTFM and see if I get  
> anywhere.
>> You can force a demux using the syntax
>>
>> vlc file/ts:///dev/stdin
>>
> That was the trick to make it work.  The following command line  
> sort of works:
>
> ./test-mpeg2 | vlc --intf=dummy --rc-fake-tty -vvv file/ts:///dev/ 
> stdin --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,url=10.0.1.197:8080}'
>
> However, this works significantly better (stream instead of file):
>
> ./test-mpeg2 | vlc --intf=dummy --rc-fake-tty -vvv stream/ts:///dev/ 
> stdin --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,url=10.0.1.197:8080}'
>
> Others interested in doing something similar (VLC streaming out  
> directly from a capture source) should note that you may replace  
> the command "test-mpeg2" with any command that spews out transport  
> stream data to /dev/stdout.
> Thank you for all the help with VLC.  Now, as for getting ieee1394  
> to reliably capture mpeg2 TS data from the DCT-6412, that is  
> another story :-)
> -angus
>
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