Streaming a playlist to lan. m3u vs xspf
Posted: 12 Jul 2017 20:35
Hi,
I'm using VLC to stream a directory with movies to multicast addresses, this all works fine except for the -random which doesn't seem to be exactly random but rather a fixed random.
Anyway, I thought I would stream an m3u playlist which I can randomly build via another script and stream that, but that doesn't seem to work.
When I stream the m3u playlist it just plays locally and doesn't get streamed. But if I save the m3u playlist as a xspf and run the exact same command, then the playlist is just properly streamed to the clients on the LAN?
I don't get this, why is VLC treating these 2 playlist differently?
Any ideas?
Thanks
Berk.
I'm using VLC to stream a directory with movies to multicast addresses, this all works fine except for the -random which doesn't seem to be exactly random but rather a fixed random.
Anyway, I thought I would stream an m3u playlist which I can randomly build via another script and stream that, but that doesn't seem to work.
When I stream the m3u playlist it just plays locally and doesn't get streamed. But if I save the m3u playlist as a xspf and run the exact same command, then the playlist is just properly streamed to the clients on the LAN?
I don't get this, why is VLC treating these 2 playlist differently?
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This plays local:
"D:\Playlists\Channel1.m3u" --sub-autodetect-fuzzy=4 --sout-keep :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=4096,fps=25,scale=1,acodec=mpga,ab=366,channels=2,samplerate=44100,scodec=dvbs,soverlay}:std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=239.x.x.x:1234}
This gets streamed:
"D:\Playlists\Channel1.xspf" --sub-autodetect-fuzzy=4 --sout-keep :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=4096,fps=25,scale=1,acodec=mpga,ab=366,channels=2,samplerate=44100,scodec=dvbs,soverlay}:std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=239.x.x.x:1234}
Thanks
Berk.