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I have to Virtual Machines (Ubuntu 18.04) which are running on the same internal network. The Server-VM stores a video in a folder which is shared to the Client-VM using Samba . The bitrate of the video looks like this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/jcy60.png Now I use the VLC-player (version 3.0.3) to ...

Does anyone have experience with this issue or can provide a concrete solution for achieving this?

When I stream a video from a VLC server to VLC client on another machine using http , I can choose the size of the client cache (in milliseconds). I used a 1000ms cache for the receiving side. Then I noticed, when the bandwidth of the connection is lower than the needed video bitrate (used a bandwid...

Maybe a little bit late, but you can use ffmpeg to add the frame number to your video permanently. Description of how to do it is here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15364861/frame-number-overlay-with-ffmpeg and here: https://superuser.com/questions/542989/how-to-tell-video-frame-number-in-vlc...

Short for multiplex(er), a.k.a. file format.

Thanks for your answer!

The video file I am streaming has an H264(AVC) video stream and an AAC audio codec. It is saved in the .mp4 container format.

What is the multiplexer doing with it? Is it just changing the container format?

When I use VLC to stream a video file with the command line, I have to tell, what kind of " mux " I prefer: vlc --network-caching=1000 -vvv <file> --sout '#http{mux=ts,dst=:8080}' What does mux mean? What is done by muxing ? I am not having any trouble with it, I just want to understand wh...

I have VLC 3.03 installed on two Ubuntu 18.04 Virtual Machines (VirtualBox 5.2.10) which are both running on an Ubuntu 18.04 host. Now I am trying to stream a video file from one VM to the other VM (internal network). Using the GUI and setting everything up, it worked for a few times but suddenly as...