Handle HD Stream fast

[Gobelz]

Hi,

I want to use VLC for iOS for streaming HD from my receiver to my iDevices. I use the MobileVLCKit and it's working great on Non-HD Streams.

But if I run a HD stream it's not so quick whit streaming to my iDevices. How can I improve to stream with a good speed on my iDevices.

I hope someone can help me with this.

Thanks,

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

The cpu is probably too weak.

[Gobelz]

Is there a way to tweak with mediaoptions? Lower the frame rate? Lower the video quality?

[Gobelz]

Is there anyone with an idea? I didn't get a solution by myself.

[garybb]

you have to use av-foundation framework and you must be an iOS developer.

setup a localhost server that serves your local or remote files to apples HLS, your localhost server listen on 8080 (or any other port).

The HLS format that you can transmux(not transcode) with vlc gives to then accerlated h.264 decoding support. It´s a limitation of iOS SDK not VLC!

as far as i have seen the new vlc 2.xx iOS came with some examples, so you have everything to make it possible. it will not work out of the vlc box.

currently the iOS compilation seems to be broken, i still wait for a feedback from a vlc developer how has access to the iOS git to fix the issue.

gary

[Gobelz]

Hi Jean-Baptiste Kempf,

I know you are a active developer of VLC, thank you for that, really!

I have a question about to handle the HD stream fast. The HD stream comes from a local network stream and is playing great with the original VLC source from git.
I have implemented mobileVLC to my own project to stream some local URL's. It's bad how it is streamed, it's lagging all the time.

If I look at the source in the original VLC app it doesn't make clear which media options you use to get the stream played.

Now is my question: What media options do you use? and do you include some other options to the media url file? This will really help me! I'm stuck now for a couple of weeks.

Thanks!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

mobileVLC CPUs are slower than desktop. this is probably your issue.