Remote start streaming on several clients

[torbenjuhl]

Is it possible to start play back of a stream on several clients. i need to start the clients from a remote pc?

[xtophe]

Yes. Depending the streaming protocol it take 1 time the bandwith (multicast) or n time the bandwith (http,...).

To start your vlc remotly, you can use :
- vnc ou ssh
- the http interface of vlc

[torbenjuhl]

I need to start and stop play back on 21 clients from a multicast server
They need to be started with one command and not induvidually.

[xtophe]

Then, i guess you can write some script to do that.

If you want all your clients to start at the very same time you can have a look at network syncronisation

Network synchronisation
--netsync-master, --no-netsync-master
Act as master for network synchronisation
(default disabled)
--netsync-master-ip <string>
Master client ip address

http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/VLC_ ... -line_help
hth,

[torbenjuhl]

I can see that there is a possebilety to set vlc up as master in the interface/netsync options, and it works, but i can only start play ant stop.
I would like to control fullscren and if the video is in the forground,
can i enable these controls or is it possibel to set up a client as master,
i have only got it working on the streaming server (vlc) not (vls).