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Hi All,


After tests, i think my biggest problem is to catch an http stream on linux.

The command vlc http://ipadress:port doesn't seems to work. But it's working fine on windows

you can try the framebuffer video output. ( or the caca video output) if you want to display the video without X. If you just want to stream, you don't need X at all Thanks for your answer, I don't know how to use framebuffer output. What i'm trying to do is to set up a streaming server. And among ...

Hi,

I'm trying to play a http video stream and stream it , but my vlc can't play the video stream because there's no graphical interface on my fedora.

Am i obliged to have the X server installed before playing video streams with vlc?

Hi All,

when i stream in http mode, only my vlc client can catch the stream. WMP & real one cannot. Is it normal?

Thanks

When you are having a problem with streaming it is always best to separate streaming from transcoding by making a local transcode to file. BTW, I'm using this command line and it's working fine C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC>vlc -vvv e:\1.mpg --sout #transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb =256,scale=1,acodec=mp3,...