Game Streaming Behaviour 0.8.6i/0.9.3 VS newer Versions
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:23
Hi,
every year i am trying to find a solution for streaming a game live to another computer, where the game is then shown on a beamer with about 30 seconds of delay (game tournament streaming on a lan party). Last year i tested different versions of VLC, and recognized that it only works properly if the following vlc versions are used:
Server (with game client): 0.8.6i
Client (attached to beamer): 0.9.3
When newer versions are used, either there is a problem with the codec, or the 30 seconds of delay are not constant so that after 2 or 3 minutes of streaming there seems to be no more delay.
Tested the new 1.0.2 version on both server and client, and still got the same problems.
Does anyone know where these problems could come from? Here are the batch files / settings i use for streaming:
Server:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" screen:// :screen-fps=30 :screen-caching=30000 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,scale=1,sfilter=logo}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http,mux=ts,dst=:8081},delay=30000}
Client:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" http://192.168.0.2:8081 :http-caching 60000 --fullscreen
I also tried different codecs on all versions, but mp4v with 0.8.6i was the best performance/quality relation i could find
every year i am trying to find a solution for streaming a game live to another computer, where the game is then shown on a beamer with about 30 seconds of delay (game tournament streaming on a lan party). Last year i tested different versions of VLC, and recognized that it only works properly if the following vlc versions are used:
Server (with game client): 0.8.6i
Client (attached to beamer): 0.9.3
When newer versions are used, either there is a problem with the codec, or the 30 seconds of delay are not constant so that after 2 or 3 minutes of streaming there seems to be no more delay.
Tested the new 1.0.2 version on both server and client, and still got the same problems.
Does anyone know where these problems could come from? Here are the batch files / settings i use for streaming:
Server:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" screen:// :screen-fps=30 :screen-caching=30000 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,scale=1,sfilter=logo}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http,mux=ts,dst=:8081},delay=30000}
Client:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" http://192.168.0.2:8081 :http-caching 60000 --fullscreen
I also tried different codecs on all versions, but mp4v with 0.8.6i was the best performance/quality relation i could find