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Hello,

I'm using the following command in Linux to stream a jpeg image:
It works well, except that replacing the source image with a newer one doesn't have any effect on the one carried by the stream; vlc keeps sending the original image as though it has been cached or something. I tried using the "--fake-file-reload" option that is listed as current in the wiki. However, running "vlc -p fake --advanced" does not list it as featured. In fact, vlc won't run if I add this option to the preceding command.

Any suggestions as to how get vlc to reload the image so that the stream outputs the most current image?

Thanks!

Which VLC version do you use?

Thanks for your quick reply.

I'm using version 0.8.6a Janus in Linux.

Cheers

That option is new in 0.9.x.

I managed to install version 0.9.2 in Ubuntu Linux, but I could not get the "fake" functionality working either. I get the exact same problem I experienced in the Windows version as mentioned in: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=50154 (vlc complains about being unable to access the dvd).

By the way, I tried documenting this issue in the bug tracker, but I had trouble figuring out how to do so.

In a nutshell, version 0.8.6 supports the "fake" functionality well, but there's no "--fake-file-reload" option. Ver. 0.9.2 is supposedly incorporates the later option, but calling "fake: ..." simply doesn't work. . In addition, there are other segmentation faults.

Is there some other workaround for loading (and updating) jpeg images for streaming that does not rely on "fake"?

Nope. (fake: works fine here)

Try fake:// and not fake: , work in linux and windows.