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Posted: **08 Sep 2019 20:36**

Hi,

The same streaming command line options work for different file formats:

vlc -I dummy --dummy-quiet --sout=#transcode{acodec=flac}:std{access=http,mux=flac,dst=10.0.0.6:8080} flac-file.flac
vlc -I dummy --dummy-quiet --sout=#transcode{acodec=flac}:std{access=http,mux=flac,dst=10.0.0.6:8080} mp3-file.mp3
vlc -I dummy --dummy-quiet --sout=#transcode{acodec=flac}:std{access=http,mux=flac,dst=10.0.0.6:8080} wav-file.wav

Does it mean that VLC auto-detects input file format and there is actually no need to specify 'acodec' option?
Is it possible to avoid transcoding during streaming and stream files in their original encoding?

Thanks in advance!

Posted: **08 Sep 2019 21:21**

Of course it detects the file format automatically. How else could it play the file??

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