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If it's just encoding that you want to do, May I suggest piping your output to an ffmpeg instance. ffmpeg even supports various standard streaming protocols, such as rtp, so it also solves that problem for you. I would only use vlc to decode and play video, not to encode it. But that's just me.

Yes! Thank you! That's exactly what I did. (Sorry, read the reply a bit too late). The API would be wonderful, but I'd just be happy with better documentation on how to use the stuff that's already there. I mostly found out how to work imem (what each argument of the release and get functions mean) ...

Thanks for the answer.

I'm thinking to do this as a separate application running with libVLC, rather than an access module. The reason is because I need to send input data (mouse movements, keypresses) back to the server.

Hello! I'm in need of providing a custom stream of data to VLC for it to decode and play. If you must ask, I'm writing my own network protocol, to stream a VP8/webm file using UDP, instead of HTTP / TCP. The idea is that my client opens the UDP stream and pumps it into libVLC for decoding. (the obje...

You can open a file descriptor for a windows file handle using _open_osfhandle, declared in io.h. However, I must be doing something wrong because nothing happens.

How did you solve it with imem? Can you give me some tips? I need to do something similar.