Music CD streamin'

Aqualung · Postby **Aqualung** » 30 Nov 2003 06:16

First of all, lemme thank the VLC development team for this fine little program. I am running the latest 0.7.0 - test 1 version on my home LAN, and while I've managed to stream just about everything (DVDs, avi clips, mp3 files etc.), it has been impossible so far to stream good ol' music CDs. How do I do this? What am I doing wrong? Can ordinary music CDs be streamed with VLC? [Edit: I just cannot stream .wav files]

The second essential problem that bothers me, is that I just do not get video on my secondary monitor. Is there a setting that allows display on secondary monitors? Something with overlay in advanced video settings maybe?

Sigmund · Postby **Sigmund** » 30 Nov 2003 12:31

You need to transcode the audio in order to stream wav and music cd. There are options for this in the stream output dialog.

The second monitor problem is a know issue, and will hopefully be fixed before the final release of 0.7.0

Aqualung · Postby **Aqualung** » 01 Dec 2003 05:27

You need to transcode the audio in order to stream wav and music cd. There are options for this in the stream output dialog.

What's this "transcoding"? Encoding on-the-fly by any chance? Anyway, I tried to do it this way (by selecting an audio codec (tried mp3 and mpga) in the transcoding options), and it sorta works, but it sounds just awful.

BigBen · Postby **BigBen** » 01 Dec 2003 20:22

What's this "transcoding"? Encoding on-the-fly by any chance? Anyway, I tried to do it this way (by selecting an audio codec (tried mp3 and mpga) in the transcoding options), and it sorta works, but it sounds just awful.

Yes, in that case, transcoding means real time encoding.

Which bitrate did you use ?

128 - 160 kbit/s should give acceptable results in mpga / mp3...

Aqualung · Postby **Aqualung** » 01 Dec 2003 22:54

Which bitrate did you use? 128 - 160 kbit/s should give acceptable results in mpga / mp3...

Tried all possible combinations encoder-bitrate-channel: same result (...well, except that at 512kbps I hear absolutely nothing--hardly an improvment). I guess I'll wait for the 0.7.0 stable release.

Also, that annoying audio distortion, the one that "sounds like an old analogue tape being slowed down and sped back up to normal speed periodically," is still there, no matter what I'd do. Note that this does not necessarily occur in case of streaming, but in case of ordinary playback as well. All my CDs and mp3s sound like this, so I find it hard to believe that it's a matter of bad files/CDs, or a hardware matter etc. (I seem to remember that this didn't happen in 0.6.2, but I may be wrong...)

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 02 Dec 2003 14:10

I tried it out myself.
It's indeed a disaster.

Gibalou · Postby **Gibalou** » 05 Dec 2003 13:02

The audio encoding problem has just been fixed in CVS.

Aqualung · Postby **Aqualung** » 06 Dec 2003 02:17

The audio encoding problem has just been fixed in CVS.

You mean this: http://vthr.via.ecp.fr/~videolan/vlc-0. ... -win32.zip?

DufuZ · Postby **DufuZ** » 06 Dec 2003 07:11

No he means the 0.7 CVS =)

U can most likly get it on http://vthr.via.ecp.fr/~videolan/build/win32/

Aqualung · Postby **Aqualung** » 06 Dec 2003 21:32

The audio encoding problem has just been fixed in CVS.

Yep, now it works fine.

That annoying audio distortion, the one that "sounds like an old analogue tape being slowed down and sped back up to normal speed periodically," is still there though.

anna · Postby **anna** » 25 Mar 2004 15:13

I'm also experiencing the "analogue tape slowdown and speedup"-effect.

Aqualung, have you managed to fix that by any chance?

/Cross-Eyed Mary

Aqualung · Postby **Aqualung** » 25 Mar 2004 21:18

I'm also experiencing the "analogue tape slowdown and speedup"-effect.

Aqualung, have you managed to fix that by any chance?

Nope, that's still there. Just tried it on an audio CD. (Dunno if I have the latest VLC release though. The help tab shows 0.7.1.)

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