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What exactly happens when i play a HD movie on a small screen?

Say I have an 1920x1080 HD Movie and my screen only supports 1280x1024, how does the pixel mapping work?

Will the video quality improve if i reencode the movie to 1280x1024?

Thanks for replys, eventough it might not be vlc specific

Hi, Im Starting VLC via php $VLC_ID = proc_open("vlc --ttl={$ttl} -I telnet --telnet-host=0.0.0.0 --telnet-port={$port} --telnet-password={$ADMIN_PASS} -d /dev/null", array(0=>array('pipe', 'r'), 1=>array('pipe', 'w'), 2=>array('pipe', 'w')), $pipes); Later on loading a config file with a ...

This is a huge delay, which sould not be caused by vlc. Altough i read a post of a dev that vlc isn't made for "live streaming" if i understand that right, realy low latency is not achieveable by vlc so far. Can you give some information about your settings (streaming and network) maybe &q...

Is your Video out of sync or are you refering to the delay between server and client?

server client delay can be reduced by : Preferences -> Input & Codec Settings -> Default caching policy.

Audio Delay Up/down Shortcut k/j

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Anyone able to use #es in combination with rtp?

Hi chritu, the options depends on what your WDTV HD player can receive, i think you have to do some investigation ;) Port is realy unimportant, use 20000 for example. are you sure you want to use vlm? you need to load a file like this via telnet: new chanel1 broadcast enabled setup chanel1 input mov...

Hi everybody, im trying to make the --sout '#es{}' option working with 2 different rtp streams, but i cant figure out the right syntax. I adopted from the streaming howto where duplicate is used this way: --sout '#duplicate{dst=display,dst="transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128,deinte...

Hi, Im still working on this ;) Well I'm experiencing trouble streaming 720p Movies to the Intel Atom CPU based Clients, the movie works fine if i play it on the local PC (50% CPU consumption). While streaming i get multiple errors resulting in artefacts, the worst point is, the errors are reproduce...

Hi everybody! I'm trying to implement a Multicast Stream (mainly videos but also music) on a local arey network. Latest VLC version on Ubuntu machines. Since it's a very confusing thing when your clients are not synchronized, im asking you which is the best way to "force" it to be always s...