how to stream audio files to STDOUT using vlc

[franky2008]

Hi:

I wanna stream the audio files to STDOUT.

What I want to do is using vlc to stream the audio data to stdout, then another program will receive it as stdin.

But it doesn't work with the option "--audiofile-file -" or "--sout-standard-dst <filename>".

AND:

vlc -vvv http://192.168.1.2/test.wav --sout-standard-access file --sout-standard-dst /proc/self/fd/1

or

vlc -vvv http://192.168.1.2/test.wav --audiofile-file /proc/self/fd/1

can't work, is there anything important I missed?

Thanks!

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

For stream output, you need to configure the stream output, and specify a file format (e.g. --sout '#standard{access=file,mux=wav,dst=-}'. You need to select the "file" audio output (--aout file) if you want to use audiofile-file.

[whome]

See here my STDOUT test scripts, maybe it gives you a help. I have not created a test Windows application to run vlc.exe and read associated STDIN stream.

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set source=http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/battleforterra/battleforterra_h.480.mov set VLC=C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe @REM transcode to STDOUT, cannot be redirected to dump.mpeg, data is written to another console's STDOUT "%VLC%" -I dummy %source% :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=1024,fps=24,acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst=-}} @REM transcode to STDOUT, redirect to dump.mpeg file (opens VLC app UI) rem "%VLC%" -vvv %source% :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=1024,fps=24,acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst=-}} > dump.mpeg