breaks in continuos streaming

[chetanism]

Hi, I am able to continuously able to stream a playlist on network using the keep and gather options. I am using windows media player to play the broadcasted stream. The problem is that whenever a file ends and a new file is played, the stream breaks i.e. the media player stops and I have to reopen the stream url in media player to continue.
I am using Microsoft Windows XP and VLC 0.8.6e (wxWidgets interface)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

With --sout-keep and #gather, this should not happen. Are you sure you are using them properly and that the (output) file formats are the same?

[chetanism]

well.. keep and gather seem to be working fine i.e. all playlist items get streamed one after another .. the problem is that on the other end (where i am using windows media player) it stops when the file ends and i need to play it again so that it restarts buffering. I am not sure if i am right or if it makes any sense but it seems to me that the information that file has ended also gets streamed and media player takes it as end of file and stops.

[chetanism]

just some information regarding what i am trying to do, i am trying to host an online radio for my office lan. So what i want is that after i play a playlist the connected users just get the uninterrupted music, but the playing on the user end stops after one song ends and they have to play it again

[chetanism]

I am still waiting if someone can help me..

[revolunet]

hello

i use this command line to make it work :

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vlc --sout="#gather:std{access=http,mux=ts,dst=127.0.0.1:1234}" --sout-keep playlist.m3u

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