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I am trying to run VLC 0.8.5 as a Windows Service from the command line, and I have tried two variants of what I believe would have worked in 0.8.2 C:\Documents and Settings\Ross MacGillivray>C:\"Program Files"\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc. exe --ntservice-install --ntservice-name 'VLC' --ntservice-ex...

As of VLC 0.8.2, the following command line would start VLC as a service C:\"Program Files"\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe --ntservice-install --ntservice-name 'VLC' --ntservice-extraintf telnet --ntservice-options "--vlm-conf c:\satin.cfg" --rtsp-host 192.168.1.99 The VLM configuration pa...

I am trying to launch VLC 0.8.5 as NT service using the preferences GUI of wxwidgets.

Is there a 'HOW TO' on launching VLC (in conjunction with VLM) from the GUI preferences?

/Ross

I have been using VLC for sometime and more recently VLM. I have configured VLM as a server on Windows XP SP2 a while ago, and I have it serving a dozen or so VOD objects successfully. However, the one feature that is missing from VLM is the ability to use SAP (or an equivalent protocol) to announce...

Does anyone know if there is a binary package for Cygwin with the IPv6 libraries? Most of the errors above are coming from the lack of an IPv6 library component in Cygwin. I can find an unofficial set of libraries that are not fully integrated with Cygwin, and require hand splicing into Cygwin. I'm ...

I am trying to compile the 0.2.4 version of the MiniSAP server on top of a Cygwin environment. The instructions on how to compile are sketchy, so I did the following E:\minisapserver\miniSAPserver-0.2.4>sh $ ./configure $make --makefile=MAKEFILE The ./configure generates the MAKEFILE, but the make u...

Many thanks for the sample file /Ross

OK, so with regard to the above two questions question 1 - would you mind posting a working example of a VLM configuration file that will load multiple objects. I am running VLM as an NT service, if that makes a difference. question 2 - Does anyone know if there a 'How to' for using the minisap serv...

I have two questions about VLM:

i. Has anyone managed to successfully load more than one 'Video on
Demand' object through a single VLM configuration file?

ii. Is there anyway to use the SAP server to broadcast the availability of
Video on Demand Objects?

/Ross

I have hooked up a VLC client to a VLM server in a semi-successful manner. The VLC client and the VLM server are both VLC 0.8.2-test2. Both the client are server machines are running XP SP2. The VLM server is running as an NT service, and there are some problems with getting the server to load more ...

I am setting VLM up as a VOD server (music on demand actually, but this is a detail). Can SAP announcements be used to inform a VLC client of the availability of VOD objects in a VLM server? If they can, how do I setup either VLM or the mini-sap server to automatically announce the availability of V...

I have VLM running successfully as a NT service on Windows XP SP2. See my post on this topic from Thursday June 9, 2005 http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=9784 The service automatically loads a configuration file called satin.cfg, which is located at c:\satin.cfg When I load a single object t...

In the following parameter: --ntservice-options "--vlm-conf c:\satin.cfg --rtsp-host 192.168.1.99" everything between the quotes is a string (with blanks) that pertains to the --ntservice-options parameter. In other words the general syntax of --ntservice-options is --ntservice-options &qu...

With regard to item i. You are correct when I added the --rtsp-host option within the ntservice-options string as follows, everything started working: c:\program files\videolan\vlc>vlc --extraintf ntservice --ntservice-install --ntservice-name "VLM Server 6" --ntservice-extraintf telnet --...

I am testing the VLM server with the VLC 0.8.2-test2 release on a Windows XP SP 2 server. I have installed VLM as an ntservice with the following command line: c:\program files\videolan\vlc>vlc --extraintf ntservice --ntservice-install --ntservice-name "VLM Server 6" --ntservice-extraintf ...

I have the ESD plugin for VLC successfully installed (I think) into VLC 0.8.1 on Debian Unstable. VLC is running and I have enable the ESD plugin using the following path preferences --> output modules --> audio output module --> EsounD audio output What I am not clear on is where to configure the I...

A manual load of the configuration file also fails. I also tried entering the "new" and "setup" commands one and a time. The VLM telnet commands are accepted, but as reported previously the .mp3 file will not play. The behaviour when using the "new" and "setup"...

I installed VLM (VLC 0.8.2-test1) as a ntservice using the following command line: C:\Program Files\Videolan\VLC>vlc --extraintf ntservice --ntservice-install --ntservice-name "VLM Server 4" " --ntservice-extraintf telnet --ntservice-options "--rtsp-host 192.168.1.99 --vlm-conf s...

Ok, great thanks for the answer. I am assuming that if I am starting VLM as a service the automatic load option has to be included inside the the ntservice options as follows: c:\program files\videolan\vlc>vlc --ntservice-install --ntservice-name "VLM Server" --ntservice-extraintf telnet -...

I have VLM (VLC 0.8.2-test1) running as a Service on Windows XP Home SP2 successfully. One of the new features with VLC 0.8.2-test1 is the ability to load a configuration file into VLM automatically at the startup of VLM. Can someone describe the method for loading a configuration file in VLM at the...

In my posting above (see the copy of the posting below), I indicated the correct syntax to load a configuration file with a fully defined path to a VOD object into VLM on a Windows XP SP2 server. Unfortunately, after further testing I discovered that while the configuration file described below will...

ok, point taken about the parser.

Is there a log file for VLM on the server?

I've looked for the usual suspects *.log, *.txt, *log*, but nothing stands out
as a log file.

/Ross

Here is the resolution to the issue: Password: Welcome, Master > show show media : ( 0 broadcast - 0 vod ) schedule > new satin vod enabled > setup satin input c:\"program files"\videolan\vlc\moodyblues\satin.mp3 I used double quotes around "program files". However, the syntax I ...

Here is the error message I received when I performed the setup step by step - manually. Password: Welcome, Master > show show media : ( 0 broadcast - 0 vod ) schedule > new satin vod enabled > setup satin input c:\program files\videolan\vlc\moodyblues\satin.mp3 setup : Wrong properties syntax /Ross

I am loading an MP3 file into VLM as a VOD object, in order to create a music server. I start VLM as follows on Windows XP SP2. c:\>vlc --intf telnet --rtsp-host 192.168.1.99 VLM starts successfully. I then telnet to VLM from a client machine using putty and log into VLM - No problem. If I place the...