Running as a Service

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Running as a Service

Postby hellbound » 02 May 2007 16:36

Hi ,

It is definitely necessary to run VLC as a service for VOD or Stream servers to make sure stability of the service.

Thanks

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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 May 2007 19:25

Is it a question ?

Then, no!
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Postby hellbound » 02 May 2007 19:34

Is it a question ?

Then, no!
It was a request,
if you mean no? assuming that you mean service is not necessary,

how do you run your VLC after it crashed for any reason?

I have VLC running and each time it rains and lots of bad signal.
it will crash and I have to run it again. how to make sure it will
come back online automatically?

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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 May 2007 20:26

Is it a question ?

Then, no!
It was a request,
if you mean no? assuming that you mean service is not necessary,

how do you run your VLC after it crashed for any reason?

I have VLC running and each time it rains and lots of bad signal.
it will crash and I have to run it again. how to make sure it will
come back online automatically?
I don't understand what do you exactly want ?
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Postby hellbound » 03 May 2007 06:38

Basically in Linux/Unix or Windows, there are two thing running, one is Application such as VLC, Word , EXCEl and etc...

The others are the services such as : Samba , HTTPD, etc...

If you run an application under your OS it may crash and it need manual attendance to bring it back online.

But a service has handling situation for any type of crash to restart the service or even restart the computer or notify the admin.

Hope I could be clear.

Thanks

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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 03 May 2007 10:22

Basically in Linux/Unix or Windows, there are two thing running, one is Application such as VLC, Word , EXCEl and etc...

The others are the services such as : Samba , HTTPD, etc...

If you run an application under your OS it may crash and it need manual attendance to bring it back online.

But a service has handling situation for any type of crash to restart the service or even restart the computer or notify the admin.

Hope I could be clear.

Thanks
So, on windows, you can run VLC as a NT service (search the wiki or here)
and on linux, you can run VLC as a daemon (-d)
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Postby hellbound » 03 May 2007 17:15

Basically in Linux/Unix or Windows, there are two thing running, one is Application such as VLC, Word , EXCEl and etc...

The others are the services such as : Samba , HTTPD, etc...

If you run an application under your OS it may crash and it need manual attendance to bring it back online.

But a service has handling situation for any type of crash to restart the service or even restart the computer or notify the admin.

Hope I could be clear.

Thanks
So, on windows, you can run VLC as a NT service (search the wiki or here)
and on linux, you can run VLC as a daemon (-d)

Thank you very much for the clue,
I found something like this shell script

http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/vlc

Which I believe has to be built in VLC,
running VLC as daemon alone wouldn't recover its crashes.

Thanks again.


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