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Posted: **03 Aug 2005 19:23**

hi, thanks in advance for any help

i am seeking any help on the status of the daemon mode in VLC 0.8.2

specifically: i'd like to know about any protocol that supports streaming requests (i.e. while running in daemon mode; what requests and what responses are available in/out of VLC?)

also: has anyone had any success in using popen() to open a VLC process from a C app, and then piping (via popen into VLC's STDIN) a file ((wave) audio in this case) file to drive a stream output? this works fine from the command line just fine, but i don't see anthing, anywhere that says this might have been done...

ultimately: i'd like just use a protocol in the daemon mode to make streaming requests

thanks so much for any help!

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Posted: **03 Aug 2005 23:34**

In my project I am currently using unix shell scripts to record and play videos. Its a very ugly code, but it's working great.

Here's what I do :

1) On the server, create a sh file. ex: playvideo.sh
2) put a vlc remote command in it :

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#!/bin/sh
(
echo open 192.168.0.100 6001
sleep 0.5
echo add /share/mp2/video.mp2 :sout="#duplicate{dst=standard{access=udp,mux=ts,url=192.168.1.101:1234}}"
) | telnet

3) start vlc with the RC interface on the video server :
(If you are using the windows vers. of vlc as a server, be sure to add --rc-quiet to your shortcut...)

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vlc -v -I rc --rc-host 192.168.1.100:6001

I use some php code and the exec() function to call the .sh script. That way, I can ask my server to play my video from any browser.
ex. play.php

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<?
$play_command = "/share/scripts/playvideo.sh";
exec($play_command);
?>

You might be able to create a socket connection and push these commands instead of calling a php/sh script.

Hope this will help

DeftonesXP

Posted: **04 Aug 2005 00:34**

thanks!

i see the construct of the telnet command that was (apparently) not getting through to me.

this gets me much closer to my intended...

...so if you were to change your sh script to:

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#!/bin/sh
(
echo open 192.168.0.100 6001
sleep 0.5
echo add $1 :sout="#duplicate{dst=standard{access=udp,mux=ts,url=192.168.1.101:1234}}"
) | telnet

and then use a variable (from javascript or php) in a form, to provide:

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<?
$play_command = "/share/scripts/playvideo.sh $selector_value";
exec($play_command);
?>

you would have a video selector!

-

my app is actually writing/creating the content (audio) in real time and i wanted to pipe/send that into vlc
(either from a normal file (i.e. what is already being writtten as the audio is created)

or

fifo (i.e. write to a fifo (instead of the above file) - whichever will work) to produce a stream (some in-transit delay is expected)

so - this helps as i'll be able to make the telnet thing happen to test the 'near-real-time' audio-to-stream and see how that 'plays out'

thanks a bunch

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daemon mode help - anything that fully describes this mode..

daemon mode help - anything that fully describes this mode..

great!