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How can I use the new feauture screen capture pluging ready in version 0.8 of VLC?
Can someone post the example code to start it?
Thanks

to see VLC's options, command line, enter:
vlc --longhelp --advanced

To make it the input device:
screen:// Screen capture

Controls:
--screen-caching <integer> Caching value in ms
--screen-fps <float> Frame rate
--screen-fragment-size <integer>
Capture fragment size

To start, try a small value for fps, say 1 or 2. Try a fragment-size of 16 for VLC to perform the capture as 16 sub-frames (divides your screen into a 4x4 grid to perform captures on).

Under Windows, screen capture is more painful than Linux, definitely takes a decent CPU and you want to keep fps low. For training type applications, or logging operator actions, excellent, but not something you would use to do real-time streaming of a video game being played on the PC.

Thanks, now works but I can't stream over UDP multicast in TS mode?
I can stream only by transcoding but the signal and the quality is very poor.
Is my error or is screen:// stream that can't be better for the moment.

However is good feature to implement.

You need to transcode, because the captured video is unencoded, and you cannot stream unencoded video. It would be extremely network intensive.

Also the quality of the screen: method isn't that fast, becaus it takes a long time to capture the whole screen.