[vlc] Re: streaming screen capture

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Julien Le Cléach wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The aim of our work is to capture screen with vlc (windows / vlc 0.8.5) 
> and stream it in real-time.
> For that, we used a command like :
> 
> vlc screen:// :screen-fps=30 
> :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=512,scale=1}:standard{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=192.168.54.120:1234} 
> 
> 
> On the other side, we use vlc to see the stream.
> 
> We first tried without any codec but client didn't get the stream.
> Then we tried many codecs but mp4v and wmv2 seemed to give the best 
> results.
> We didn't get to work with h264 or theora. Sometimes it crashed, 
> sometimes client didn't read anything.
> 
> The problems are :
> 1) after transcoding, the image produced is really awful
> 2) there is a delay of 3 seconds between any action on first screen and 
> result on other screen
> 
> Can anyone tell me what could be the best parameters for having a 
> correct image with real-time compliance ?
> 
> Thanx.
> 

Try with :screen-fps=5 first. The encoding takes a long time and VLC 
isn't doing anything smart with the screen atm. I think real-time is out 
of yours and vlc's reach.

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman

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