Unable to stream multiple files continuously (Solved)

[GraphiteCube]

Hi. I am trying to stream music over HTTP using VLC as streaming server. Some basic issues have been solved after spending hours on testing.

I have 3 problems left:

1. I am streaming more than one MP3 files (about 80) from my server, but the client will stop after playing 1 MP3 file. When I click on play button on client again, the client will play the stream without problem - but after playing 1 song it will stop again. The client I use is VLC.

2. I then tried to use Windows Media Player to play the stream, but it said it couldn't open the stream.

3. Although I applied transcoding module in my command, when I tried to view the media information, the media stream is still streaming music at original bitrate (eg. 128 kbps).

The command I executed on VLC (the streaming server) is:

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vlc Music/*.mp3 --random --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=192.168.8.20:8000}:transcode{acode=mp3,ab=32,channels=2}'

The MRL I typed in player is:

http://192.168.8.20:8000

My server is running Debian squeeze, VLC 0.9.9a installed.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

[GraphiteCube]

Tonight I tried to find out the problem by following steps:

1. Initiate an instance of VLC to stream those MP3 files to http://192.168.8.20:8000.
2. Initidate another instance of VLC to stream the music stream from http://192.168.8.20:8000 to http://192.168.8.20:8080.
3. Open a media player on client to receive the stream from http://192.168.8.20:8080.

So the situation can be represented as:
[VLC instance A]---(Stream to 192.168.8.20:8000)---[VLC instance B]---(Stream to 192.168.8.20:8080)---[Client (VLC too)]

This time I can read an error message from VLC instance B, which is about "unexpected discontinuity of stream".



So I guess there must be something I did wrong, so that the stream from VLC instance A wasn't continuous.

The command I executed to create VLC instance A:

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vlc Music/*.mp3 --random --loop --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=192.168.8.20:8000}:transcode{acode=mp3,ab=32,channels=2}' -I dummy

The command I executed to create VLC instance B:

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vlc http://192.168.8.20:8000 --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=192.168.8.20:8080}:transcode{acode=mp3,ab=32,channels=2}' -I dummy

Could someone give me some hints/ suggestions to troubleshoot the problem? Thanks.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

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vlc Music/*.mp3 --random --loop --sout '#gather:standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=192.168.8.20:8000}' -I dummy --sout-keep

[GraphiteCube]

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vlc Music/*.mp3 --random --loop --sout '#gather:standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=192.168.8.20:8000}' -I dummy --sout-keep

Thank you so much, it works!

[kdh]

Remi, would that work the same for jpg images?

[isync]

To explain the above: what you need is

1.
The option

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--sout-keep

to keep the output open continuusly.

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:gather

The "gather" module (see the docs for that). Put it into your sout command: "--sout "#gather:transcode{vcod...". But be prepared that it somethimes is the cause for crashes. Be sensible with your input files/formats.