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RTSP and HTTP, while similar in construct and format, are both application layer protocols - HTTP cannot encapsulate RTSP (or vice versa)

Hi, I am trying to embed VLC on a SBC using linux, does anyone did or know anything similar was tried/done? Any pointer is appreciated. Also, any particular SBC (barnd) is good for small application like VLC? I am targetting US 200-300. Thanks! I have done this, but found the memory and CPU footpri...

Thnx mate, I haven't thought about doing it multicast. I think bandwidth won't be a problem( 1 Gb connection ) so max 100Mbit/channel aught to be enough.. For that number of unicast clients however, you may run into problems with hardware throughput and bottlenecks - Given that the clients will all...

I want to create my own STB based on VLC media player. I have implemented VLC within a STB-type environment by way of a customised ubuntu server build which starts up Mozilla Firefox within a vesa X server and VLC has been installed as a Mozilla plug-in. Mozilla Firefox has also been customised to ...

Well, I've read some Live555 material, and from what I can see, trick play can be implemented directly in Live555 by implementing some C++ pure virtual functions which (to put it simply) give the server the information on which byte offset the seeked second of the video is located. The problem is t...

While there are means for remote control command code inteception (Zenith Superport, Philips Smartport, etc and IR receptors/blasters) with respect to digital media control, these means are limited to hospitality IPTV set-top boxes (Tilgin Mood 200, Amino 110H) and exceptionally unlikely to be incor...

Can we 'pause' and 'play fast' MPEG-TS (*.mpg) file when using it as an input stream in our configuration file using vlm. for VOD(using telnet interface)

new test vod enabled
setup test input "test.mpg"

Note: test.mpg is a MPEG-TS file

Pause - yes, play fast - no.

The specifics of this integration will depend very much on the specifics of the DRM system and it's client implementation - This integration should not be particularly difficult as the modularisation of the VLC codebase reduces the scope of code where code needs to be modified and updated.

I'm testing Amino 110 with UDP multicast streaming. I don't know why it doesn't display video, only audio, when I play divx movie. Do you have same problems? But, when I tried some .flv movie from YouTube it's display v&a (when transcoding to mpg2v). The Amino 110 does not support MPEG-4 part 2...

While RTSP is similar to HTTP with respect to the protocol sematics, RTSP cannot be carried directly through a HTTP proxy -- unless this proxy also supports RTSP. This is not however a configuration which I have seen in any standard HTTP proxy application - I have however written a dedicated RTSP pr...

No.

Thanks robc,
But how do you pass that variable to the RTSP stream in VLC?

Using VLC as a RTSP client, you may be able to use the --start-time <time> parameter, but I have not tested this at all and would not be surprised if it does not work or has unpredictable results at this point in time.

A description of the form of the RTSP Range header can be found in RFC2326 - At the moment however, there is only a partial implementation of the Range header within the RTSP server component of VLC.

The patch which I submitted for Amino STB interoperability with VLC was incorporated into the main VLC trunk and as such this functionality should be available with nightly builds and subversion checkouts. As it is however, I have not tested the nightly or subversion builds for some time, but will s...

For RTSP at least, it might be a bit hard, as it uses non-HTTP requests. RTSP can certainly be rather easily done, the only major requirement is that a) the destination RTSP server can send data through to the original client (for UDP data streams, this is trival to configure - and indeed for the n...

Sorry, I was away for a few days... Ok, let's drop the whole interoperability issue for now. I would settle for MMS VOD streaming. Unless you can show me how to stream MMS on demand, you are incorrect in saying that MMS VOD streams can be started, stopped, or otherwise controlled. If you check my V...

The --sout-keep argument is separate to --sout - Try this: vlc -vvv --extraintf logger -I http --http-src /usr/share/vlc/http/ --http-host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8090 --logfile /var/www/stream.html --logmode {html} /mnt/space/experiment.m3u --sout-keep --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=asf,url=xxx.xxx.xxx....

The problem I've been unable to solve so far is how to get VLC to create one continuous stream, instead of having the clients drop between files every time.

Anyone know if VLC can do this? Something like a crossfade, perhaps?

Try using the --sout-keep flag.

Unfortunately, while I cannot comment on the implementation of VOD for HTTP/MMS streaming within VLC (as I have not used it at all), I am quite certain that the MMS protocol can provide full VOD support (with fast-forward and rewind) on other platforms (Windows Media Services). With respect to RTSP ...

I was able to set up an RSTP VOD stream in VLM to another VLC client (both through LAN and over the Internet). But no other media player is able to open that RTSP stream. There are many players (and media devices) which can interact with VLC for video-on-demand through RTSP - In particular, have a ...

While there may be a number of options depending upon how you launch VLC to stream content, you are probably best advised to investigate the telnet interface of VLC where the status of streams can be displayed through the show command.

Does offset parameter work when stream via VLC. Meanning when I put following url to VLC client or any other RTSP client it doesn't work; rtsp://<server>:<port>/<path>;offset=<seconds> I've couldn't find anything in webforums, only command line parameter for vlc client which I am not really looking...

The answer is yes, but it is not an insignificant task to achieve.

Unicast UDP streaming does definitely work between VLC and Amino set-top boxes. In terms of configuring this however, while it sounds like you have got it sorted out on the server side with VLC, on the set-top box, you must supply the source address when specifying the UDP source URL. eg. udp://192....

This option is for fast UDP streaming where a specific destination IP address and port number can be defined for the output TS stream. From a cursory review of the ts module source, this is affected through the creation of the UDP socket for streaming immediately within the TS demux module rather th...