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I don't know if I am in the right forum, so please move this if necessary. As the subject states, alternate stream if primary isn't available is what I am trying to accomplish with the alternate stream being just a jpg. I have been tasked with trying to find a viable solution to monitor our multicas...

Not saying that mine is the most stable of choices, however, I do run 63 instances of VLC at one time on a 65 inch TV for monitoring channels on our network. I am doing this with Linux Mint 14 and VLC 2.0.4 twoflower without a hitch. That being said, I am running a quad core i7-3770K @ 3.50Ghz w/32G...

This is how I have gotten it to work on Mint using the cvlc command and streaming multicast.
cvlc --width=240 --height=180 --sub-source="marq{marquee=Ch. 002 VOD Barker from Local Content Server 01}" udp://@239.1.0.2:2122 2&>1

As the subject states, I am looking to autostream different Multicast address on the same channel every 20 secs, indefinitely in a loop. This is for channel monitoring to ensure that all channels are in service. Some help on a where to start with the config file would be a great help. Here's what I ...