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I'd like to use VLC to broadcast a UDP TS for an entire playlist of MPG files. I can make this work manually when adding a single file to the playlist, and specifying the stream output parameters.

What I want is to add a directory full of files to the playlist without having to specify the stream output params for each.

I see in the advanced settings I can specify the default method, mux, destination etc. And I was expecting newly added files to use these settings. But alas, new files added to the playlist just play in a window, they are not output to the stream I set. Am I missing something?

I'd really rather not have to create a VLM conf do do this. All I want is to easily have my playlist files broadcast in a loop on udp/ts.

thanks!

George

hi!
First you must not use the streaming output as a per-playlist-item option,
i.e. vlc ... :sout=..., but as a global option: vlc --sout=....
To ensure, that there are no new streams created, each time the playlist item skips,
use the --sout-keep option.
good luck,
schmaller