Playlists with dvb-s

[pubpub]

Hi all,

I am in trouble to make running the dvb-s with recent vlc versions. I had to roll back to the last 0.8.6 on the server/sender. The configuration is a Linux bos that contains all the cards ( 2 dvb-t 1 dvb-s 1 pvr etc... ) and my main work station receiving the udp stream. The ( X ) display environment variable of the server is set to the adress of the work station, and of course the video and the sound are stream by stream protocols

In the past, it works with a file containing #extvlcopt statements, that has been now banned for security reasons.

The only way I found to make running a dvb-s is to pass everything in the command line or fill up the dialog box. Even when I tried to save the playlist, it does not reload.

The goal is to switch one reception unit that always send to the save vlc receiver ( recent ), not to have some broadcasts of a selection of channels in which people connect on it.

I can not work with command line parameters and programs id's in the playlist as channels are in general on multiple transponders, or I missed something to have more than one playlist with different parameters e.g. vlc --freq=123 --fec=5 <playlistfile1> dvb:// --fec=4 <playlistfile2> dvb:// to have one common freq and specifics fec

Did I missed something in general or does vlc not interrested by the dvb-s anymore? Or should I search for third parties control pannels?

Cheers

P.S. Does the D-Bus command accepts these options?

[thannoy]

In 0.9.* releases or around, there were an option to enable EXTINF comment to be parsed in m3u playlist (--enable-extinf?, see forum archive). I don't know if it still exists or if it have been replaced by the "tagged safe" options restriction[1] as for ActiveX binding.

In a restricted environment, only option tagged as safe in the source code are usable. --sout is denied for example because it can overwrite any of your files.
For simple dvb settings (frequency, etc), you can try to not use command-line parameters but to embed them in the mrl you open. I don't remember the syntax though, looked like dvb://frequency=542000,fec=4

[pubpub]

Thank you very much. I will investigate and try tonight

To answer to your last sentence, yes the url style is frequency as the cmd line style is dvb-frequency

The VLC's behavior on

vlc <param 1 ( style cmd )> dvb://<param 2 ( style url )> <param 3 ( style cmd )> dvb://<param 4 ( style url )>

is
* 2 and 4 are discarded
* value of 3 overwrittes value of 1 for same keys, in other hands they are global
But the principle even to write dvb:// dvd:// file:// produces 3 entries in the playlist