Channel Selection Display

[Cindy Lai]

Hi,

	Thanks for your reply. But I would like to clarify my question. I know that the interface of vlc : click on "Net", select "Channel server", write its IP address or DNS name. Then, I can see a new section "Network Channel" on the interface. Select "1" and click on "Go!" to select the channels. 

	My question is how can i modify the codes in order to change the interface of channel selection to, say for example 'Bloomberg' instead of numbers like '1', '2', '3' ?

	I'm looking forward for your advice.

Thx,
Cindy


-----Original Message-----
From: Tristan Leteurtre [mailto:tristan.leteurtre at videolan.org]
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 4:38 AM
To: vlcs-devel at videolan.org
Cc: chusibau at netvigator.com
Subject: Re: Channel Selection Display


On Thu, Oct 03, 2002, chusibau at netvigator.com wrote:

> How could I modify the codes to have a dynamic channel selection with
> specified names of channels instead of numbers like "1", "2", etc, in
> VLC after I've installed the VLCS and specified in VLC?

I don't understand very much your question and purpose, but if you want
to modify the communication method between vlc & vlcs, you should have a
look in src/misc/netutils.c for the vlc-part.

The core of this communication (the request) made by the vlc is in
src/misc/netutils.c:220 :

    /* Build the message */
    sprintf( psz_mess, "%d %u %lu %s \n", i_channel, VLCS_VERSION,
                       (unsigned long)(mdate() / (u64)1000000),
                       psz_mac );

    /* Send the message */
    send( i_fd, psz_mess, MESSAGE_LENGTH, 0 );

and the request is received and parsed with miniVLCS in
miniVLCS/vlcs.c:114 (from the network module of CVS)

if( (i_len = ip_socket->Receive( p_buffer, sizeof( p_buffer ))) < 0 )
{
  (...)
}
p_buffer[i_len] = '\0';

if( sscanf( p_buffer, "%2s %d %d %17s", psz_channel, &i_version,
           &i_time, psz_macad ) != 4 )
{
  (...)
}

Maybe look here for implementation of what you want.

-- 
Tristan

Please answer to vlcs-devel at videolan.org and not to my personnal address
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