Stream entire Playlist via http?

[zurgel]

Hello,

this is probably an easy thing for you but I just don't figure out how to do it.

I am using VLC on a Mac (and a Windows machine). I would like to do two things that are very similar. First thing is that I want to listen to my music library of one computer via LAN (http) on another. The second thing is that I'd like to listen to music and at the same time stream it via http to someone across the Internet.

The problem: I have to add every file manually via Command+O and then add it with stream output enabled (+ play stream locally). I can't just throw a few files from the Finder or the Explorer into the playlist and VLC keeps playing it as a stream. The stream is interrupted as soon as a new file starts playing. I found viewtopic.php?f=4&t=39596&p=123242 which helped me so that I don't have to start the stream on the remote machine with every file I play (--sout-keep). But the problem remains that I have to add every file manually.

I tried ./VLC --sout-keep --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,:1234}' , hoping, that it causes VLC to stream every file that is in the playlist, regardless how it gets there. I didn't want to specify a network interface, so I just used the port. Obviously I made some fundamental mistakes or I havn't understood how to use VLC properly.

I am missing some parameters that allow me to http stream every file that I add via drag and drop and parameters that specify that the file also plays locally.

Can anyone help me please? I read the documentation and tried the forum search but still I cannot figure out what to do.

[zurgel]

Does noone have a solution for this?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Put the list of files on the command line, don't use a playlist.

[zurgel]

Can I use a M3U or PLS on the commandline too? Because that way I could at least prepare a list before streaming it...

But still, isn't there a ... more convenient way of adding files while a session is already running?