How to get VLC player to receive but not decode / display ?
Posted: 04 Apr 2011 13:46
Hello all, and thanks for reading !
I want to do some load testing using VLC serving up flash content (i.e. how many clients can I get before my hardware starts lagging, what are the network characteristics of the resulting traffic etc).
To make things simpler, I'd like to use the VLC client to pull down the video stream, but I don't want it to decode or displays (to avoid my client machine being the processing bottleneck). I'm interested in the network load characteristics, so it's important that the flow control etc is correct, so I want to use an actual streaming client (I guess just pointing cURL at the server won't produce the right traffic characteristics... if anyone can confirm or rubbish this statement, please do
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So to my question: is there any way of getting VLC to behave in this way ? just receive the stream but don't decode / display ?
Thanks
Matt
I want to do some load testing using VLC serving up flash content (i.e. how many clients can I get before my hardware starts lagging, what are the network characteristics of the resulting traffic etc).
To make things simpler, I'd like to use the VLC client to pull down the video stream, but I don't want it to decode or displays (to avoid my client machine being the processing bottleneck). I'm interested in the network load characteristics, so it's important that the flow control etc is correct, so I want to use an actual streaming client (I guess just pointing cURL at the server won't produce the right traffic characteristics... if anyone can confirm or rubbish this statement, please do
) So to my question: is there any way of getting VLC to behave in this way ? just receive the stream but don't decode / display ?
Thanks
Matt