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Hello, I am trying to use VLC to convert about 25 UDP unicast streams to multicast and I'm having problems with the load on the CPU. After 5 or 6 streams, the CPU use gets up over 90% and the system is unstable. The test server is 2x 3.4GHz & 2GB RAM. It's currently on Windows but I'm not sure C...

Hello, Is it possible to make a button that will open a specific source? I'm trying to put together a skin that has dedicated buttons for a number of network feeds (udp multicast streams). I've tried vlc.play(udp://xxx.xxx....) but that doesn't work. I've also tried to use playlist.add() but can't f...

Hello, Thanks for getting back to me. I downloaded the latest version (0.8.6f) today and get the following results: 1) vlc -I qt --vlm-conf c:\vlm-config.txt = GUI interface opens, VLM config is loaded. The problem is that the VLM playlist command "control test play" doesn't take effect un...

hello, thanks for the suggestion but it won't launch both. the solution i've found is to just use the telnet interface, which allows the VLM playlist to load and start running automatically (with the "control start" command for each transcode). i've written a .bat file which runs on a loop...

I am using VLM to transcode about a dozen high rez WMV feeds (528Kbps) to low rez WMV (96Kbps) so I can embed them all into a website without the CPU overloading. When using the GUI and loading a vlm config file everything runs fine for a few hours, then some of the vlm items stop playing. I think i...