[vlc] Re: Accessing VLAN functions via API calls

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Thomas Haas wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>  
> i finally got my ivtv drivers to run and all works fine. I can stream 
> the content of the card (Hauppauge PVR 150) over http, save the stream 
> to a file and display it. I can do this with the GUI or the commands in 
> the shell.
>  
> I am now about to write a program that can trigger this funcitons via 
> code. My first idea was to just call the commands via the system or 
> execvl methods. This works fine but i do not have the ability to check 
> weather the command has executed successfully. I also would like to 
> stop a command after a period of time. The second problem is that 
> system creates a new proccess which is very ressource consuming. So a 
> better method would be to start a thread or do direct API calls.
>  
> So my question is:
>  
> Is there an API (library to include into my program) or a communication 
> over sockets where i can just call functions (or send commands over http
>  sockets) to create, save or to display a stream?
>  
> Another solution would be to get the code for this from the cvs 
> repositories and compile it into my application. But since the vlc 
> project is very large this could be very complicated.
>  
> Thanks in advance,
>  
> Thomas
> 

Thomas, I think you want to use the VOD support of VLC. Start VLC using 
the RTSP interface (see www.videolan.org/doc the Streaming HowTo).

Kind greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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