[vlc] Re: How to decode video by listening on a socket

[Pedro Sanchez]

On Thu, 2007-10-05 at 10:15 -0400, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 18:38 -0400, Phil Pishioneri wrote: 
> > On 5/9/07 4:17 PM, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Le mercredi 9 mai 2007, Pedro Sanchez a écrit :
> > >>     
> > >>> So my question is, is there any way to specify in the command line
> > >>> the video type of the incoming stream as well?
> > >>>       
> > >> Write a suitable SDP to a file, and tell VLC to open that.
> > >>     
> > > I didn't know I could point VLC to a SDP file directly. I put this file
> > > in Web server and now I just type "vlc http://server.com/clip.sdp" to
> > > get the video going. Great!
> > >   
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Would you mind sharing the SDP file you created?
> > 
> > -Phil
> 
> Not at all, here it is:
> 
> v=0
> o=NNMAS 1 696 IN IP4 47.135.81.46
> s=-
> e=unknown at invalid.net
> t=0 0
> m=video 2002 RTP/AVP 99
> c=IN IP4 47.130.105.187
> a=rtpmap:99 H263-1998/90000
> a=fmtp:99 QCIF=2
> a=maxprate:30.0
> a=framerate:10.0
> a=sendrecv
> 
> VLC doesn't care about the IP address in the c field. It just figures
> out the port to listen on (2002) and the video format. You also have to
> ensure that the SDP video type (99 in this case) matches the RTP payload
> type of the incoming video stream. 
> 
> -- 
> Pedro
> 
> 
One more item remaining: VLC times out and stops listening on the socket
if there is no video stream. My stream may take several seconds to show
up and I don't want VLC to stop listening forcing the user to click on
the play key. Is there a way to tell VLC to never timeout in this
scenario?

Thanks,

-- 
Pedro


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