Send UDP packet
Posted: 28 Jan 2013 19:28
Hi all,
I would like to send an UDP packet with specific current input object information (like name, elapsed time, etc.).
I have the code ready to get the required information, but I do not know how to send an UDP packet with that information
.
Please, can you help me with that? I see that UDP library is not part of standard LUA library, so I guess I can not use it
.
Reading LUA "readme.txt" I found a "net" VLC specific LUA module, with "net.send( fd, string, [length] )" and "net.write( fd, string, [length] )" methods than seem interesting
, if only I know what file descriptor (fd) to put it there to use UDP packets (if possible).
Any other alternatives to send UDP packets? In fact I would like to do an inter process communication (to an external app). I looked for some OS "pipes" support but I ended trying to implement this using UDP.
BTW, I am on Windows OS (althought I think this should work on every platform).
Many thanks for any information/hint about this
I would like to send an UDP packet with specific current input object information (like name, elapsed time, etc.).
I have the code ready to get the required information, but I do not know how to send an UDP packet with that information
.Please, can you help me with that? I see that UDP library is not part of standard LUA library, so I guess I can not use it
.Reading LUA "readme.txt" I found a "net" VLC specific LUA module, with "net.send( fd, string, [length] )" and "net.write( fd, string, [length] )" methods than seem interesting
, if only I know what file descriptor (fd) to put it there to use UDP packets (if possible).Any other alternatives to send UDP packets? In fact I would like to do an inter process communication (to an external app). I looked for some OS "pipes" support but I ended trying to implement this using UDP.
BTW, I am on Windows OS (althought I think this should work on every platform).
Many thanks for any information/hint about this