how to play UDP multicast stream with muted audio

[SubContractor]

Hi

I need to start multiple VLC sessions to play live UDP streams, but I need to mute most instances and have audio only from one main window. It seems streams are handled differently to local files. I can select audio track to "disable" once it plays, but I need it to be like this when the stream starts, as there will be no user intervention.

I'm using commands like this:

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.\vlc.exe udp://@239.255.42.32:1234

--no-audio, --directx-volume=0, --audio-track=0 don't seem to do anything.

How can I do this?

Thanks a lot

Andrew

[#thweiss]

Add --no-sout-audio in your Commandline.

Have a look in the Commandline Help.
- https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help/

[SubContractor]

Hi

Thanks, but that fails to start and gives an error. Checking the docs, sout seems to be for streaming output.

I need to get the streams that already exist on the network and show them on screen. Any idea on how to show the video from a stream but not have the audio from the stream?

[#thweiss]

Try the following Commandline Example for 64-Bit VLC-Player.

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@echo off start "" "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" https://593aed234297b.streamlock.net/gotvsjoerd/gotvsjoerd/playlist.m3u8 --no-audio :sout-keep

[SubContractor]

Great! Thanks a lot Thweiss!!

I dont think I would ever have figured that out.