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If I dig around long enough I might be able to grok enough to see if it's disabled or something I suppose ... but that's about it. Never enough hours in the day!

Was hoping one of the OSX devs knew the answer to this one already

One app I'd like to do this with is a modified version of clover (which is a python wrapped version of the firewire grab examples apple provides in their firewire SDK). I've also got another variation based on apple examples I've been working on that just grabs raw dv streams from firewire. clover: ...

I have no idea whether this is possible, but what are you trying to achieve? I'm trying to pipe in video that I'm capturing with another command line app (from set top box via firewire) and transcode in realtime to x264 or mp4v and then either have it streamed via udp or saved to a local file. Usin...

Bump one more time ..

Does _anybody_ know if it's possible to use stdin on OSX? If so how can it be done?

bump! No body has an answer to this question? I also asked it about 3 years ago and got no answer then ...

The use of stdin is an incredibly useful thing for me and am hoping that I'm just missing something and that it indeed works on OSX.

Actually I've narrowed it down, it seems to only come up when I play a video with a52 or dts audio tracks.

I get an error message with all the files I've tried so far (mp4, m4v, mkv) Audio device is not configured. You should configure your speaker layout with the "Audio Midi Setup" utility in /Applications/Utilities. Stereo mode is being used now. (actually now gets cut off until you resize th...

another thing missing is the ability to go normal size in full screen This feature was never present in VLC and is not announced to be included. Patches are welcome of course, although I don't see a reason why anyway would want to use that... (no offense intended) It can be useful when you are doin...

I can't seem to be able to figure out how to get VLC on OSX to use stdin from CLI ... I've tried using all three of: - and /dev/stdin and stream:///dev/stdin

Any suggestions? Is this possible?

Ok guess I just needed the one in share/http (not sure if the web interface stuff requires lua) but I got it working fine.

edit .hosts file.

Hmm I don't follow. Where is the .hosts file to edit?

Ok I found them ... do I need to edit all 3 of them?

edit .hosts file.

Hmm I don't follow. Where is the .hosts file to edit?

I can access locally via loopback, but any other machine on my network it gives me "403 Forbidden (/)"

haha yes. That wasn't the question, it was more a question of whether or not VLC could handle it. The short answer is yes it could and did, sorta -- (this post is 1.5 years old). The machines just werent' capable of dealing with a 30Mb/s video stream so we ended up going with a hardware based soluti...

This wasn't limited to just VLC either. I saw this same behaviour with a Flash upgrade as well (turning the sampling rate to 96k), so I suspect they might have had something in common (a legacy call perhaps?)

Hi All Just messing around with stuff, and I can't seem to be able to figure out how to get VLC on OSX to use stdin ... I've tried using - and /dev/stdin and stream:///dev/stdin Any suggestions? Is this possible? I've just hacked up dvsave to output to stdout and trying to find a homebrew solution t...

Also have you added/modified any fonts lately? Sounds an awful lot like a font conflict to me. You can check for conflicts by opening Font Book ... if any of the fonts in the lists have little black dots beside them they are having conflicts. (you can sort of resolve this by selecting this option in...

I guess you mean it doesn't support apple's built in digital outputs? I use VLC through my MOTU 2408mkIII all the time running 100% digital with no problems ... Another thing I've noticed as well, is that VLC can even request the hardware to change sampling rate from 44.1k to 48k ;) While at times t...

What speed is your machine, etc ... sounds like it's choking while trying to do some initial cacheing, but that's just a guess.

make sure that the file extensions aren't hidden ... why oh why did they introduce this feature into OSX anyway, it's very windows! yyyyyyuuuucccckkkk.

haha James knows the deal! That's funny.

x264 is not 100% up to snuff with the quicktime H.264 as of yet ... some stuff works some stuff doesn't. I don't have a better answer than that but from what I've tried that's what I've found to date ...

You can find the CLI version inside the Contents of the .app pkg ...

in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC

Why it's all caps I'm not sure, but you can run that directly and pass any arguments needed to it there.

yes this is transcoding. Set it to output a file (and transcode to a different format if you want it to do that).

Have you tried the "Open Disk" from the File menu? (applekey+D)