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I have an app that will generate a transport stream of video and I want to have VLC play the video. I serve up the data to an abstract socket 'unix:myvideo_xfer', can you tell me if VLC player supports connecting to Unix abstract sockets?
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I want to stream live audio. I have Ubuntu 17.04, and ALSA installed. When I run VLC 2.2.6 I goto media - stream - capture device. It shows video device name and audio device name. I select hw:0,0 and leave the video device name blank, and video standard undefined. I then select stream and it shows ...

I have 2.2.6 running on both mac and windows 7. I have an mp4 file that streams fine on mac os, but on windows 7 no packets egress the laptop. I have disabled firewall settings, added a route for the multicast address, still no packets. Question: The interface for streaming on mac for 2.2.6 is much ...

We need to decrease latency in VLC and have VLC use any hardware video accelerators available on the phone. We want to hire an expert to help us out.
please reply to this post if you have the skills.
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Is there a way to see what hardware codecs are available for VLC to use on a given phone? Also if we enable using hardware codecs is there a way to see which CODECS are being used?

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Thanks, Time to study up on SDP.

I am encoding using H.264 and 265. I am not using transport stream. I send to a multicast address and IP port. I run VLC and put 'udp://@225.1.1.1:6000' in as the network URL. Still no video is displayed. Does VLC require a certain encapsulation type to play a stream?
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I have setup gstreamer to send a udp flow. I can see the packets, but when I open the stream with VLC, nothing shows. Are there certain options (tsmux,etc.) that must be used with gstreamer for vlc to play its output?
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I register to receive a multicast udp stream udp:://@224.1.1.1:1234 but after about 30 seconds VLC stops. Do I send in a core dump or something for this?

I tried putting in a URL 'udp://@239.159.0.1:11223' into VLC for android, then streaming the video over WiFi from an encoder. It did not work. Are we able to receive UDP multicast video in VLC for android?

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You were right I uninstalled the libvlc package and it worked thanks.

I did the usual checkout, configure, and make. Is libvlc a different checkout, configure, make? I saw that the api mentioned is in the core source file directory.

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I just built vlc on a raspberry pi. When I run it I get a missing symbol: VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower (revision 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e) [0x15c7bf0] inhibit interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 [0x15c7bf0] main i...

Jean, Thank.

I disabled b-frames, and set caching to zero on the streamer side. We are using the GUI Vlc player, can you point me tot he input code latency? What do you mean the GOP?

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I want to understand the options etc. for minimizing the latency when streaming video between a source and vlc. I have cvlc on the board generating the video, and I am streaming to vlc 2.1.2. Does anyone have the minimizing option settings for both the encoder (source) and the VLC player? Thanks, Y-

I am streaming from a Raspberry Pi using raspivid piped to clvc. The latency is about 6 seconds. I am interested in getting less than a second latency. I am using vlc 2.1.2 player for mac os x. I don't see anyplace to set the cache size. Any help is appreciated.
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