Detection of end of stream

[butler]

It would be really nice if VLC could figure out when a stream has finished and do something useful other than show the last frame of the video forever. If it detected the end of the stream, it would be ideal for me if the video window would close (and the playlist moves on to the next item), but that's just for my setup. Even if it could just move to the next playlist item, it would be better.

Do any of the streaming protocols other than UDP multicast and HTTP do anything like this?

[fkuehne]

This was lately implemented for RTSP-streams. You can check it out in the current nightly builds on http://nightlies.videolan.org. UDP-Unicast and MMS should already support this.

[butler]

This was lately implemented for RTSP-streams. You can check it out in the current nightly builds on http://nightlies.videolan.org. UDP-Unicast and MMS should already support this.

does mms support multicast?

[fkuehne]

does mms support multicast?

As far as I know, MMS is a plain unicast protocol.

It is patented by MS btw., so you might need to pay royalties if you're using it.