[vlc] Re: Status about streaming of packets

[Michael Butler]

This is the exact problem I have been having! From what I can tell there are
tickets to have it fixed by 0.8.5, but in the mean time I have been trying
to hack it to do what I want with no success. I would be interested to see
if you find a solution.
 Mike

 On 10/26/05, Christoph.Malz at t-online.de <Christoph.Malz at t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> I am streaming a video from one computer with vlc and I am receiving it on
> another computer with vlc.
> On the receiving side I am dispalying the video on a TV using the video
> output of the receiving computer.
>
> So before I start streaming a video, the background of windows of the
> receiving computer is shown on the TV.
> When I start streaming the video an extra video window opens on the
> receiving computer displayig the video.
> The problem is now when I pause or stop the video on the streaming
> computer the extra video window does not close on the receiving computer, so
> that I see the paused video on the TV and not the background of windows.
>
> Is their a possiblity to close the extra video window when no packets are
> streamed?
> Or is it possible to get by an own written application a status from vlc
> if packets are currently streamed on the receiving or sending site , e.g.
> by using telnet?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help!
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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