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Windows 2000 Pro SP4, 640Mb, 1.4GHz Pentium 4, NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX VLC 0.8.1, but also comments on nightly build 20041213. 1. 0.8.1: when I select Extended GUI/Audio/Volume normalization, the CPU usage of VLC goes to 98%, and it becomes unresponsive. Soundblaster Live! audio card, homebuilt box. Thi...

I do it by setting the equalizer, then opening up Settings/Preferences and press the Save button. This also saves the volume BTW.

markfm - loaded the clip from your ftp site, ran it using my settings, and it finished at 1.38.99. ran it using your settings, and it finished at 1.39.66, exactly the same as your result. However :( ran it using my clip and the picture stutters, and the sound is garbled. Returned to my settings and ...

Thanks, I missed some - the [mux_ts] section of your vlcrc file contains settings lower than mine. I'll try those and let you know. Tomorrow. Just got back from the pub...

Dave

You should be down to 200 ms No, I'm not getting anywhere near that, it looks more like about 800 ms. I haven't had chance to try it out on-site yet, but here I'm running a 100Mb network through a single hub - whether that has anything to do with it. if you have access to the source files Nah, they...

markfm, The DJ, Gibalou - I've got a few gmail invites if any of you need one.

Partial success! I ran the latest build (on the server), and to be honest it seemed worse than the version I was running before (0.7.2). Went through the preferences again, and in General Settings/Stream output, there's the option to "Keep stream output open". When I mouse over, it says it...

Ok, tried the following on both the server and client ends: General settings/Miscellaneous/Minimize number of threads checked Modules/access/access_udp Cacheing 300->0 Modules/access/access_tcp Cacheing 300->0 Modules/access/access_file Cacheing 300->0 Modules/sout access/access_output_udp Caching 3...

Aaaahhh, suddenly I'm inundated ! Thanks guys... Yeah, it would seem to be unimportant (hell, what's a second between friends??) but unfortunately they have put a fade-out at the end of the their videos, and they're not seeing it fade. Hence they are unhappy. I'll try your various suggestions. Again...

Thanks
I've read your suggestion, and I'll give it a shot.

I'm serious about the idea of paying, though. It is a high profile system out there, and there may come a point when I need something solving that I can't do myself.

Dave

I'm using VLC as a multicasting solution at quite a high profile location - Las Vegas airport. Unfortunately I've got a problem - see my posting here: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=4473 . As you will see, as of today I have had no replies. I understand that this is all free, and I apprec...

VLC 0.7.2, Windows 2k I'm successfully multicasting, but have found that the clients are losing the final second or so of a multicast video. I'm guessing that this is something to do with caching or latency. I note that when the server end starts up (I'm using VLC at the server, not VLS), it takes a...

Couldn't find any reference to S16N anywhere on the videolan.org site, but I tried it: vlc --extraintf=logger -vvv audio.wav :sout=#transcode{"S16N"}:transcode{acodec=mpga,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,url=239.20.30.40:1234}} and got this in the logger window: [000...

VLC-0.7.2, Windoze 2k I'm successfully multicasting video files, but I can't figure out how to stream audio only files, eg .wav files. I tried from the command line: vlc -vvv audio.wav --sout udp:239.20.30.40:1234 and I get a lot of output in the logger window, of which the most likely bit is this: ...

Thanks Sigmund, but: SoftwareDave@development ~/vlc-0.7.2 $ cd src SoftwareDave@development ~/vlc-0.7.2/src $ touch vlc.c SoftwareDave@development ~/vlc-0.7.2/src $ make vlc make: *** No rule to make target `vlc'. Stop. SoftwareDave@development ~/vlc-0.7.2/src $ cd .. SoftwareDave@development ~/vlc-...

Yeah, I found I could do that with plugins. It's when you have to do something like change a header file. I can't figure out the dependencies, so I have to do a make on the whole thing. Also if I change the vlc.c file, then try make within the src directory it doesn't do anything, I have to make fro...

Yes, that worked. I did try something similar before - see earlier post - but I was obviously on slightly the wrong track. After your post I sniffed around a bit more, I found p_input->p_vlc->b_die and yes, that does the trick, thanks. However, in the meantime I'd written a separate monitor app, whi...

Yeah, there is, I could try it, but my main problem is terminating the app. I'm really on a big hack here. I don't actually understand how this software works, particularly when it comes to accessing data between the main app and the various plug-ins, so, for instance could I get the window handle f...

Fishing for another clue here... :) I'm looking at this timeout option. Within the Read function in modules/access/udp.c, a call is issued to net_Read. This is a blocking call, and so if there is nothing coming over the network stream, net_Read does not return. Hence it's not straightforward to impl...

Yes, I think that might be the answer. I do know the duration of the video stream, so I could do a forced termination. In fact, I can detect at the server when the server vlc terminates (because I'm using vlc:quit) and then issue a terminate command from the server. That's going to be simpler than d...

Thanks DJ, I had this feeling someone was going to say that :( I think I may have a shot at sending an "end of stream" packet from the server when it detects the end of the input. I suppose the problem there though is what if the client doesn't receive it. Maybe I need a timeout as well......

VLC 0.7.2, Windows 2k pro. I need to have the client application quit automatically at the end of the UDP stream. I'm aware of the vlc:quit option, but while that works at the server end (it streams then quits, as expected), it has no effect at the client end, which just sits there with the last fra...

Thanks Gibalou, I do understand that there is no warranty, and I did think twice about bringing up the problem in the first place - I don't want to appear a leech or anything (Hey here's this free code! Why don't you guys make it do what I want? And for FREE!!!). Now that you've explained the malloc...

Thanks for explaining, Sigmund. Leaves me in somewhat of a dilemma, though. On the one hand this does look a good system, it does what I need it to do and I have the source code. On the other hand, I have a high profile customer (Las Vegas airport) and I will have to support this code, when I feel a...

Hmm, well that's a new way of looking at it. In the example I quoted it would mean the application writing to an illegal area of memory. Depending on the OS that would cause a core dump, GPF or maybe you could trash the system, rather than the application failing gracefully. Yes, under 32-bit OS's y...