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I believe this functionality (tsocks) has been removed latterly from vlc. I know it works in 2.1.6. Is there anyone that can tell me the latest version of vlc in which tsocks is still operational? Thanks.

Here's an offer, another £10 if you get rid of that tacky thing!

Hello, that horrible 'donate' button is still showing on my android vlc. I have vlc all over the place, I run on Ubuntu, Andronix and Debian. I don't have to suffer 'donate' buttons on those systems. I have donated to Videolan project funds. Why do I have to see that horrible donate button on my and...

I am looking for the --sout syntax to play local audio and stream also to localhost (127.0.0.1 port 1239).
I know it's quite simple but I can't, for the life of me, get the syntax correct.
Something to do with #duplicate ?
Help much appreciated.

The url now appears to be this:-
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... ackages.gz

ok, it's easy:- vlc -I rc --rc-host localhost:1250 {file/playlist} (-d optional to daemonise) echo pause | nc localhost 1250 open up a port (1250 in this case) between your host & clients & have full remote control over vlc. At last, been messing with this for months off and on... Very happy...

ok, this is what I did:- cat vlc_fifo | cvlc --rc-fake-tty mymediafile vlc plays mediafile ok, then did this:- echo 'stop' > vlc_fifo or echo stop > vlc_fifo no effect, also linux prompt does not return, looks like system is waiting for i/o to complete. I know that something like this should work......

Hello, I am looking for a real vlc 'exper't here.. I can easily control mplayer like this:- mplayer -slave -input file=/my_fifo myfile and 'pipe' commands to the fifo with shell scripts like this:- echo 'pause' >my_fifo This works fine with mplayer, How do I do this with vlc please? I have seen post...

I use (c)vlc on my server to stream all manner of media. What I want to do is run (c)vlc from cron (to automatically stream my playlist). This means that wherever I am, all I have to do is log-on to my server & run my media player (pointed to localhost:1234) and my media will be playing. To sum ...

Hello, did you get your HTTP streaming thru SSH tunnel working? If so, would you care to pass on how you did it? I am running VLC on a linux server with a ssh tunnel.
Am trying, without success to stream thu it. Help much appreciated.

Hello,
I just want to stream live T/V (over the internet) from my DVB card on my Ubuntu server to my Ubuntu client.

Can someone please point me to an idiots guide on how to achieve that please?

Thanks,
Richard.