remote activation of VLC

[Sara]

How can I run VLC from remote computer?

My application (C++) runs on different machine (IP) than the VLC, and I need to activate VLC within my application. What should I do?

10x:)

[markfm]

Operating system?
Is it that you need to start VLC on the remote computer, or any reason you cannot have it running up front, just need to control what it is playing/streaming?

[Sara]

The C++ app will run on windows and the VLC on linux.
I need the VLC to read RTSP stream of amr and MPEG4.
The app running on win machine should activate the VLC on the remote Linux machine with the URL to read

[The DJ]

well first, VLC doesn't yet support AMR audio, because there is no Free and Open Source implementation of the codecs, only the official reference codec, which falls under the copyright of the 3GPP governing body of these codecs.

second, any number of methods can be used for remote activation, but basically i would just launch VLC on the server with the http web interface (vlc -I http) and then from the windows machine you can call the correct url and vlc will start playling. (see http://servername:8080/ after launching vlc to get a webinterface. If you look at the pagesource you will easily understand how to construct your URL's for remote controling).

[Sara]

Thanks for yr help

As for the amr support - We did some changes in the src and now we can hear the audio (when we play a 3gp file locally), but still have some problem when using RTSP. In that case we can only see the video.

Maybe we need to do some changes in the Helix(video streamer) configuration?
Maybe in the livedotcom?

Any idea?

[The DJ]

more likely live.com liveMedia library i think. Try their mailinglist.

[Sara]

Regarding the HTTP interface -

As I described before, I need to activate the vlc that runs on linux from my c++ app, running on windows machine.
I wonder what is the request I have to use in order to make the vlc read my stream and convert it to TS format.

At first, I used to activate the VLC on the same local machine and I used the command line : vlc -vvv rtsp://192.118.51.178:554/videoBlogger/blabla.3gp :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=2048,acodec=mpga,ab=192,deinterlace}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,url="C:\TS_Files\test.mux"}} vlc:quit

Now the vlc is running on linux with the http interface and I still need to use it for read and convert my stream. Need one cmd line or one request and can not use the browser.

Can you help? I dont understand how to do it.

Thanks