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I have VLC 1.1.11 installed on an Ubuntu box and have configured a playlist from a channels.conf file. It works great and I can change to any channel In the playlist. I am also streaming the current channel of that box to other clients, which also works fine. Is there a way to stream the channels.conf playlist so I can change channels from the remote client, or can I only view what is being played from the source of the stream?

Thanks for any pointers.

Raymond

No.

You may have misunderstood my question; you can indeed change the playlist channels on the remote box via the http interface. This is my working scenario.

1. Create a channels.conf with dvbscan or scan
2. Set it as the default playlist under "preferences, playlist"
3. Set the default interface to http remote control under preferences and set the source directory to /usr/share/vlc/http
4. Create a script similar to this command: vlc -vvv dvb:// :dvb-adapter=0 --sout '#standard{access=htp,mux=ogg,dst=10.10.1.10:8181}'

To stream and play:
1. Launch the script from the box with the digital tuner
2. On the client machine open a browser to http://ipofmachine:8080 (your playlist will display all channels in channels.conf)
3. Open up vlc and launch the network stream (http://ipofmachine:8181)
4. Changing the channels will stop the player, but when you click "play" again, it will stream the new channel.