VLC 1.0.2 input slave

[michaeldjcox]

Hi,

This used to work fine with version 0.9.8.

But fails to produce any output in VLC 1.0.2.

Can anyone help please.

Thanks,

Michael

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vlc.exe fake:// --fake-file="test.jpg" --fake-duration=9999999999 --fake-file-reload=5 --input-slave="music.mp3" --sout="#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=4000,fps=25,scale=1,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2,sfilter=marq@nowplaying{marquee=' '}}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst='output.mpg'}}" --sout-transcode-audio-sync -I rc --rc-host=localhost:5000 --rc-quiet

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main warning: clock gap, unexpected stream discontinuity main warning: feeding synchro with a new reference point trying to recover from clock gap main debug: Buffering 0% main debug: Buffering 8% main debug: Buffering 17% main warning: clock gap, unexpected stream discontinuity main warning: feeding synchro with a new reference point trying to recover from clock gap main debug: Buffering 0% main debug: Buffering 13% main warning: clock gap, unexpected stream discontinuity main warning: feeding synchro with a new reference point trying to recover from clock gap main debug: Buffering 0% main debug: Buffering 8%

[VLC_help]

It works if you remove --input-slave="music.mp3" ?

[michaeldjcox]

Yes it works fine without --input-slave... apart from having no sound.

Michael

[VLC_help]

I will open ticket for this later.

[michaeldjcox]

Thanks very much

[VLC_help]

trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3107
ticket opened.

[michaeldjcox]

Thanks for opening the ticket.

I see some comments on the ticket - is there any likehood of it being fixed?

My internet radio plugin for SageTV relies on the input slave feature to add music to a sequence of images.

My users are stuck on 0.9.8a at the moment.

Michael

[VLC_help]

slave-input doesn't have very high priority so I would guess it isn't going to get fixed anytime soon.

[michaeldjcox]

Do I have any other options both with VLC and outside?

On the face of it the thing I am trying to do (effectively add music to a slide show and output as mpeg) is a less ambitious subset of what input slave is trying to do.

I have tried bridging before (viewtopic.php?f=11&t=56924&start=0&hilit=bridging)

No media player other than VLC seemed to understand its output.

Thanks,

Michael

[VLC_help]

Mencoder or ffmpeg can also be used to create slideshows with music.
http://maulik.freeshell.net/Miki.pl?pag ... shows.miki
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mpl ... 71741.html

[michaeldjcox]

I have tried ffmpeg and it works perfectly.

Given that vlc is based a lot on the work on ffmpeg.

and vlc already does so much

Why can we not just bring this functionality to the command line of vlc?

[VLC_help]

Why can we not just bring this functionality to the command line of vlc?

If slave-audio would work, it should be doable.

[michaeldjcox]

These other tools (Mencoder, ffmpeg) seem to have the basics but I cannot seem to make them operate in a "keep" encoding fashion.

i.e. they giveup when they find the end of a file which is half way through been produced.

Its seems to me that VLC is adding value above and beyond what these tools can do.

Plus my SageTV plugin makes use of other VLC features.

So I want to stick with VLC.

I think its time for me to get involved and see if I can't repair the input slave or add a slave-audio feature.

Michael