play vlc in a linux without graphical interface

[kaikai]

Hi,

I'm trying to play a http video stream and stream it , but my vlc can't play the video stream because there's no graphical interface on my fedora.

Am i obliged to have the X server installed before playing video streams with vlc?

[xtophe]

you can try the framebuffer video output. ( or the caca video output) if you want to display the video without X.

If you just want to stream, you don't need X at all

[paulc0001]

I'm trying to play a http video stream and stream it , but my vlc can't play the video stream because there's no graphical interface on my fedora.

If you're trying to use sout, not vout, then just add "--intf dummy" to your commandline.

[kaikai]

you can try the framebuffer video output. ( or the caca video output) if you want to display the video without X.

If you just want to stream, you don't need X at all

Thanks for your answer,

I don't know how to use framebuffer output.

What i'm trying to do is to set up a streaming server. And among the requirements, is the possibility to make direct streamings: someone streams from a webcam via http, and i catch the stream with my server and re-stream it to windows media players clients via mmsh.

it's working fine if the server is under windows, but under linux i just can't catch the http stream. (it gave me the same error when i try to play a video file in non graphical terminal)

[kaikai]

Hi All,


After tests, i think my biggest problem is to catch an http stream on linux.

The command vlc http://ipadress:port doesn't seems to work. But it's working fine on windows