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Any ideas how to stream over a serial port? (/dev/tty*)
Is there already support?
If not, any pointers to where to plug in a new transport?

Thanks!
//Bjorn

Hello,

I am also interested in this subject. I'd like to stream super low res video to a wall of LEDs running on an Arduino that is listening to serial for buffered data.


16 pixels wide
48 pixels tall
13.5 fps
24 bits per pixel
248832 baud

This is assuming uncompressed raw pixel data. I hope the tiny buffer is enough to watch for the frame marker (in case of transmit error).
I need a way to tell VLC the size of the output buffer (48*16) and a format description I can parse on the Arduino.

Anyone?

Any ideas how to stream over a serial port? (/dev/tty*)
Is there already support?
If not, any pointers to where to plug in a new transport?

Thanks!
//Bjorn

Hi Bjorn,

Did you get any feedback or make any progress on this? I would like to send data to an arduino board.or at least connect to an arduino board and have the arduino listen to the VLC player.

You would have to write your own video output plugin.