VOD - VideoLan Newbie lost - please help..
Posted: 20 Jan 2005 14:44
Downloaded & installed the latest VideoLan for Windows. Installed it using the default install onto my C drive. I have a seperate hard drive E with my media files on it.
I want to use VOD for the other users in my home Lan (4 of them) to allow them to select any file - mainly DivX AVI's - to play from an HTML generated playlist.
I launched VideoLan, added a Web Interface, then I used the playlist to create an m3u playlist of my media catalogue.
Opened Explorer & pointed it at http://localhost:8080/ this bought up a page to add MRU's into. I found out that no matter what I entered into the add box, nothing would add, all I kept getting was a 404 page. Searched the Forum & found a solution was to use this method to add MRU's http://192.168.1.10:8080/?control=add&m ... es\All.m3u
With that done, all my collection appeared
I can click a link & it plays the file in VLC player 
If I close explorer whilst VLC is still running, then re-launch explorer, the playlist is still there. If I close explorer, then close VLC, restart VLC - add the web interface & then launch explorer - the playlist has gone!
1)Why doesn't the add MRU work on the VLC playlist web page?
2)How do I keep the playlist so that it always appears should I need to re-start VLC?
3)What is the Stream Output (sout)? dialogue box on the VLC playlist page used for, & how do I use it?
4)I think this is linked to Q3 above, but can I have the playlist links launch Media Player 10 on the clients, rather than VLC Player?
5)Is there anyway to have VLC scan my media folder for additions/deletions & autocreate a playlist to appear when the VLC web page playlist is re-loaded?
Finally, I've noticed that if I close VCL whilst the VLC web page playlist is still open, it corrupts the VLC playlist page & inserts about 100 lines of HTML tags into the playlist where the media links used to be. Re-adding the playlist as described above doesn't solve the problem. The only way I've found around it so far, is to uninstall VLC, then re-install it!
I want to use VOD for the other users in my home Lan (4 of them) to allow them to select any file - mainly DivX AVI's - to play from an HTML generated playlist.
I launched VideoLan, added a Web Interface, then I used the playlist to create an m3u playlist of my media catalogue.
Opened Explorer & pointed it at http://localhost:8080/ this bought up a page to add MRU's into. I found out that no matter what I entered into the add box, nothing would add, all I kept getting was a 404 page. Searched the Forum & found a solution was to use this method to add MRU's http://192.168.1.10:8080/?control=add&m ... es\All.m3u
With that done, all my collection appeared
I can click a link & it plays the file in VLC player If I close explorer whilst VLC is still running, then re-launch explorer, the playlist is still there. If I close explorer, then close VLC, restart VLC - add the web interface & then launch explorer - the playlist has gone!
1)Why doesn't the add MRU work on the VLC playlist web page?
2)How do I keep the playlist so that it always appears should I need to re-start VLC?
3)What is the Stream Output (sout)? dialogue box on the VLC playlist page used for, & how do I use it?
4)I think this is linked to Q3 above, but can I have the playlist links launch Media Player 10 on the clients, rather than VLC Player?
5)Is there anyway to have VLC scan my media folder for additions/deletions & autocreate a playlist to appear when the VLC web page playlist is re-loaded?
Finally, I've noticed that if I close VCL whilst the VLC web page playlist is still open, it corrupts the VLC playlist page & inserts about 100 lines of HTML tags into the playlist where the media links used to be. Re-adding the playlist as described above doesn't solve the problem. The only way I've found around it so far, is to uninstall VLC, then re-install it!