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This issue is driving me nuts. It makes the player almost unusable when controlling a live PTZ camera.

I'm using the Python VLC bindings to play an RTSP stream from a PTZ security camera. It works great, but as I watch the camera over time the buffer keeps increasing, until the lag is so great that the camera is impossible to control. When it increases VLC prints this message to the console: [03d0e1d...

Is anyone able to get this working on Windows? On Windows 7 with Python 2.7 I get the error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Projects\easyptz\EasyPTZ.py", line 340, in <module> vsnprintf = ctypes.cdll.msvcrt.vspnrintf File "C:\Python27\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 37...

Thank you, the option "--no-osd" suppresses the filename being shown! It still shows the thumbnail, but that's less of an issue for me. And interestingly I can still draw messages on the screen when I init with "--sub-source marq". So it doesn't disable the marq feature. Thanks a...

Looking under the hood, it looks like it's hard coded into video.c. Here's what vlc.py calls when it takes a snapshot: def libvlc_video_take_snapshot(p_mi, num, psz_filepath, i_width, i_height): '''Take a snapshot of the current video window. If i_width AND i_height is 0, original size is used. If i...

Sure, see here: http://gizmoware.net/dropbox/screenshot1.jpg Note the filename of the saved screenshot written on the video window, as well as a thumbnail of the screenshot at top left. > Are you sure it's libvlc-specific and not coming from your python bindings? Looking at vlc.py, I don't see anyth...

That's what I'm using. The issue is that when using the Python bindings for VLC(the file you linked to), the output from VLC is printed to the console (which I know I can suppress with "--verbose=-1"), but I can't figure out how to hook the output for my script. In other words I'm trying t...

Oops, I just posted almost exactly the same question. You posted after I read all the threads on this last night. Ha, I hope we can figure this out!

My thread:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=146794

[Edited to add: oops, @Moriquendi posted almost exactly the same question while I was writing this. It's here fyi: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=146788&p=481599 . I'll leave this up in hopes that it helps us solve the problem] I've read through all the threads on recording ...

I'm taking a screenshot like this: fname = "whatever.png" result = self.player.video_take_snapshot(0, fname, 0, 0) It works well, but prints the filename to the screen and a thumbnail of the image. Is it possible to disable that behavior? Maybe one of the marquee options? I've tried disabl...

Sorry I wasn't clear. I can see all the output, but I'm trying to catch the output with my script so it can process it. Specifically I'm trying to detect when the stream rebuffers (i.e. when the player outputs "[0623b578] main input error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (pts_delay in...

I'm using the VLC Python bindings (vlc.py) under wxPython on Windows, and trying to read the output from VLC. I'm playing an RTSP stream (security camera) and especially interested in the messages shown when it restarts the stream: [0623b578] main input error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too la...

When I have VLC playing a video in fullscreen mode on a secondary monitor, clicking that file again makes it play smoothly in VLC. In other words, restarting the file doesn't cause any flicker. However, if I click a *different* file that's a different pixel size, VLC momentarily comes out of fullscr...

Well I found some more options in the help file produced from commandline with this command: vlc --advanced --help It looks like the option --no-video-deco might be what I'm looking for to get a minimal instance, and --video-x and --video-y might be intended to position the window. But none of those...

I'm trying to launch multiple instances of VLC at various positions around a large monitor, with specific sizes. I want there to be no menus whatsoever, just the video area. Currently I'm not seeing a way to prevent the menus from appearing from commandline. All I'm seeing from commandline is the --...

Have you made any progress with this? I'd be very interested in getting this working...

I'm wondering if there's some way to syncronize VLC, so two different computers are playing the same video, at exactly the same time?

Or maybe there's some other way of accomplishing this?

Thanks for any help.