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Hi all, I am trying to use VLC to play back a (an unorthodox...) h264 TS stream in which the resolution (width and height) changes in the middle. For example, it goes down from 352x288 to 176x144 for the same bitrate and frames/second. When the resolution changes, the stream starts as a new sequence...

Hi all, I followed the instructions on http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwinNew to build VLC from source using Cygwin for Windows (I used the source tarball for 0.8.6.e, and the contrib packages for 0.8.6e and gcc-3.4.5, although my Cygwin has gcc-3.4.4) It worked fairly well, I only needed mi...

Typo in my earlier post, should have read: "I tried running VLC as vlc -I rc --rc-unix /tmp/vlc.vty...." In essence I am trying to run vlc: > vlc -d -I rc --rc-unix /tmp/vlc.vty BTW, it work if I choose a telnet interface, i.e. vlc -d --intf telnet. However, for the above case the GUI star...

Hello all; I want to run VLC as a daemon on the background while listening to a unix socket. I tried running VLC as > vlc -I rc --rc-host /tmp/vlc.vty which opens up an interface where commands can be send using a socket; and > vlc -d which sends it to background But I wasn't able to do both at the ...