Hi....
I am having trouble getting vlc to multicast reliably. My current setup is a 3GHz P4 running Fedora 3. I am using vdr+streamdev to take DVB channels from a Hauppage Nexus-S card and then I am using a command line similar to the following to take a http stream from vdr+streamdev and then re-stream it as a multicast:
vlc http://localhost:3000/PS/14710 --sout '#standard{access=udp,mux=ts,url=239.255.12.42:1234}' --ttl 12
The reason I am using vdr+streamdev instead of letting vlc access the DVB card directly is because I found it to be much more stable this way.....with vlc I kept getting TS discontinuity errors and eventually CRC errors which would just crash or hang vlc.
Most of the time, when vlc starts, about 4-5 multicast packets get sent and then nothing. Every once in a while (maybe once in every 20 attempts), a multicast stream will start and will work fine until I have to restart vlc.....
I don't think it is a problem with Linux.....mp4live multicasts just fine everytime. And I am not sure the problem is related to the version of vlc either. I have tried vlc 0.7.2, 0.8.1 and cvs versions. I have also tried running vdr+streamdev and vlc on separate machines....same thing.
I was wondering if perhaps anyone else has seen this, or perhaps might be able to suggest possible solutions to this problem.
Just so you know, I will probably be posting this on the vlc users mailing list also.
Thanx in advance.
Chris Bradshaw.