How to set up a VOD playlist ?

[Stuntman]

Hi there,
I would like to set up a VOD playlist with some files all present in the same directory.
How can I do that ?
kind regards

[VLC_help]

So you want to make VOD streaming server or you want to add some VOD locations to your playlist?

[Stuntman]

I want to do both but on two different sides.
Server : VOD Streaming server (set up via VLM already)
Client : A playlist file in which I could find all my VOD file possibilities.
Btw the way I succeed by streaming a classic SD movie with a .mpg extension but it doesn't work for a .wmv 1080 HD movie.

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## ## ## VLM HTTP interface ## This file can be loaded as is in VLM. ## Comments starting with "##" were added by the HTTP interface. ## You can remove them if you want to. ## # VLC media player VLM command batch # http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ new channel2 broadcast enabled loop setup channel2 input "D:\servers\Stream_Files\Top Gear-07x05-2005.12.11.avi" setup channel2 output #standard{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=225.141.11.1,name=Channel 2} new channel1 broadcast enabled loop setup channel1 input "D:\servers\Stream_Files\Eureka-01x02.avi" setup channel1 output #rtp{mux=ts,dst=225.141.11.2,sap,name=Channel 1} new channel3 broadcast enabled loop setup channel3 input "D:\servers\Stream_Files\Aviator_SD_dvd.mpg" setup channel3 output #standard{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=225.141.11.3,name=Channel 3} new channel4 broadcast enabled loop setup channel4 input "D:\servers\Stream_Files\CrazyHorse_SD_mp2_ps.mpg" setup channel4 output #rtp{mux=ts,dst=225.141.11.4,sap,name=Channel 4} new film vod enabled setup film input "D:\servers\Stream_Files\CrazyHorse_SD_mp2_ps.mpg" new film2 vod enabled setup film2 input "D:\servers\Stream_Files\HD\1080\The_Magic_of_Flight_1080.wmv" new film3 vod enabled setup film3 input "D:\servers\Stream_Files\Top Gear-07x05-2005.12.11.avi" ## ## end of export ##

[VLC_help]

but it doesn't work for a .wmv 1080 HD movie.

You get any errors to VLC log?

For client playlist I think only option is manual playlist creation.

[Stuntman]

Now it's working fine. I just made a stupid mistake in my folder organization.
I'm streaming a SD video (codec MP42) I get the audio but not the video :/
Any idea ?

[VLC_help]

VLC log should show errors if the packetizer cannot remux the audio or video track correctly. One option is to trancode the file during streaming.

[Stuntman]

Here is what I get from my server :

It seems your FFMPEG (libavcodec) installation lacks the following encoder:
H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10).
If you don't know how to fix this, ask for support from your distribution.

This is not an error inside VLC media player.
Do not contact the VideoLAN project about this issue.

I tried to transcode the video in various format without success.

[VLC_help]

VLC shouldn't use FFMPEG for H.264 encoding. It should use x264, which is broken in 0.9.x (under Win32). So if you change your transcoding command, you should be able to produce working stream.