default behavior:On demand or broadcast?

[ncsuapex]

Judging from this command would you say that the default behavior in vlc is "on demand" or "broadcast"?

cvlc -v file.wmv --sout "#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=512,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=128}:std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=:1234" --loop

From what I've read on vlc I would say this is considered "on demand" as Ive seen documentation that describes how to set up a broadcast stream. Am I correct? The reason I ask is, we have an application that we are trying to stream a video into and it works when we do an "on demand" stream in Windows media service but not when we do a "broadcast". This vlc stream works in our app so that also makes me think it's "on demand"


Any ideas?

thanks!

VLC version 0.9.6 Grishenko
Centos 5.1

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Using the playlist, it's always broadcast. You can only use VOD with VLM or with the API bindings.

[sixxkilur]

the mmsh is a Broadcast protocal

[xtophe]

It's all depends how you define on-demand and broadcast

from a network point of view, it's on demand because the client has to request the server to receive the stream.

From a video point of view it's broadcast because the client just get the video currently playing. it can't decide at which point to start.