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Has anyone successfuly compiled and used Videolan Server on Mac OS X? Any guides or anything? Thanks!

Not a direct answer, but unless there's some really special VLS-specific feature you need from VLS, VLC would likely be better. VLC is under active development, many features not in VLS, and includes streaming capability.

...If you really want to compile vls on OS X, have a look at the "VLS user guide", which is available on the documentation page. Notice that there might be some problems with newer third party libraries so you should use the ones from http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... .6/contrib.

Perhaps even the currently used GCC 3.3 on OS X triggers problems, so you might need to install GCC 3.1 or GCC 2.95 as well, if you want to avoid touching the code. You can find the other GCC-versions on your Mac OS X developer tools disk. They are accessable through "custom settings" in the installer.

Feel free to supply patches or ask further questions if you want to.

VLC is under active development, many features not in VLS, and includes streaming capability.

Yes, but I'm afraid that one very important feature as multiple channel streaming is missing in VLC. I didn't try to start multiple vlc instances. Can it be done?

You can stream multiple channels with one instance of VLC since the 0.7.x series. You cannot do that with the regular GUI, but the http and telnet - interfaces. The http-interface is still under development, so I recommend you to use the telnet-one.

The module you need to control for this purpose is called "VLM" (VideoLAN (Media) Manager). Please have a look at this document for details.