Videolan TV-Streaming and remote channel changing SUCCESSFUL

[shadowspawn]

what if vlc is a service?

i have some code that will start/stop win32's services (using impersonation) from asp/aspx. (background vs forground priority on server is different).

but i'd figure that you would set up channels and use "scraper code", where the web server performs "get" requests to vlc's the built-in http interface.

you have the latest vlc build in that rar?

[scoutice]

starting vlc as service would be better than starting it with only some inferface, which is not used, in my case the webinterface.

>but i'd figure that you would set up channels and use "scraper code", where >the web server performs "get" requests to vlc's the built-in http interface.
sorry, i cannot understand. what do you mean? the build in web-server of vlc is not used. would this be possible for channel changing? the built in webserver is only used, that vlc starts without a gui, in the case a user is currently logged in.

>you have the latest vlc build in that rar?
no, i have some nightly build (not in the rar, but using it), i think its from ~15.2.2005, because the features to set the channel are not yet integrated in a official version, but will be in the next release (I read)

yours, greetings, thomas

[scoutice]

hi there! I implemented your suggestion to add a WAP-interface for the timers of the videorecorder. it's a quite simple interface, but you can
->start the VRC immideately on a certain channel for a selectable duration
->create a timer to record a certain broadcast
->delete a timer.

the code is integrated in version 0.3 and ready for download and use.

tested with some desktop wap-browsers and a Nokia 6100. if there are some issues with your phone, please tell me!

greetings, thomas

[Jonas]

Great work!

I have a sony Ericsson phone T630 and will try it out as soon as possible. The problem is that my web server is on another machine than the TV card, so I have to move hardware around.... But I will try it out as soon as possible. (Kids taking most of the time...

A possible next step would be to stream the video out to a 3G phone. So you can start watching the game on the train going home from the Pub... )

/Jonas

[Jonas]

I just downloaded the rar fil for v 3, but it was empty???

/Jonas

[scoutice]

you are right, this would be the next step.
as streaming to other pc is already realized, this will not be very difficult, I think. the channel change and start/stop using wap is surely easy to implement. but the problem is, that I do not own a 3G phone, and I do not know, which streaming format the phones would accept.
when you surf the internet using a 3G phone, do you have a public IP-Adress? of what do the media-players on these phones support? can you open a mpeg-stream over a http-connection?

greetings
Thomas

[scoutice]

I just downloaded the rar fil for v 3, but it was empty???

/Jonas

Just tried it, its a valid .rar file, not empty. just retry it. greetings

[Anon]

Couldn't the change channel functionality be done via VLCs http interface?

[Aye75]

Hi scoutice , nice program you got here

anyway I found your post here
viewtopic.php?t=7161&highlight=php
where you describe that it would also be possible to play files directly from harddisk

sorry I'm a newbie when it comes to php and videolan

can you describe a bit on how would this be possible ?
which part do I change ?

since I really would like try out your program but I dont have a tv card or whatsoever

thanks

[scoutice]

can you describe a bit on how would this be possible ?
which part do I change ?

since I really would like try out your program but I dont have a tv card or whatsoever

you do not have to change anything, just put your files you want to play in the streaming subfolder. however, if you are used to php you can just remove the parts.
i will extend the next version, so you just can disable/enable all parts of the scripts.
->videorecorder
->wap interface for videorecorder
->live tv
->files on harddisk

greetings, thomas

[Alchi]

Hello Scoutice!

gratulation for your needful programming-work!
i havn´t tried yet, but I search for a good solution to realise
VOD.
How is your work going on, to implement playable files and subjectives install-files/scipts?

greetings
marco

[scoutice]

at the moment there is not much programming i can do, because time is rather limited. furthermore, i do use the scripts as videorecorder 3 times a week without any trouble, and on each friday with a grand prix to stream the free training to my office.

everything works really well, and i do not see any bugs and also no missing features (for me), so work at the moment is freezed.

what really would be great is a translation into english, i will work on that using resource files, so additional translations can be done easily.

any other ideas?
anyone else using the scripts? (so far i know 3 people)
greetings?

[white_turtel]

Nice thing scoutice,

it's exactly what I wanted to make myself
I will test it out in the next few days,

Lett you know soon

CU

[Garhu]

I have a problem to view the first page (index.php) without any errors :S

There cames in the first lines this error

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Warning: shell_exec() [function.shell-exec]: Unable to execute 'tasklist.exe' in D:\html\vlc_streaming02\vlc_streaming02\Webinterface\globals.inc on line 5 Warning: shell_exec() [function.shell-exec]: Unable to execute 'schtasks' in D:\html\vlc_streaming02\vlc_streaming02\Webinterface\globals.inc on line 15

and at the end

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Warning: shell_exec() [function.shell-exec]: Unable to execute 'tasklist.exe' in D:\html\vlc_streaming02\vlc_streaming02\Webinterface\globals.inc on line 5 start Warning: shell_exec() [function.shell-exec]: Unable to execute 'tasklist.exe' in D:\html\vlc_streaming02\vlc_streaming02\Webinterface\globals.inc on line 5

VLC is running on a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise. The Webserver and php is installed and working. There are only the errors. I'm using the version (version: 0.2c). I have copied the files taskkill, tasklist and schtasks in the Webinterface folder. I tried to give the files rights, but the errors came again. I hoppe you can help me.

Also I wanted to ask, if it would be possible to look on the harddrive of the server and select the move or music you want to stream?

[scoutice]

will come soon, but at the moment i am facing trouble with 0.8.2, it seems there is a bug in mpeg streaming (div3 works fine)

nothing great, but the chroma selection has moved to the config-file, and the vlc-task is not killed any more, but the switch --one-instance ist used.

it will soon be released, i will announce it here. greetings, thomas

[Garhu]

oki thx I will wait till then.

[Ralph2]

Hey Scoutice, great work. Most of the time it works, however I got stuck with a firewall/router. UDP packets were blocked and I couldn't receive them. Anybody has an idea how to implement some sort of UDP connection, probably initiated by the client ? So firewall/router will be happy.

[scoutice]

i had the same problem, but this is due to udp. does your router NAT (then it cannot work). if you have server behind (e.g. the computer, where VLC runs), create an incoming connection to establish a VPN, and through a VPN it will work.

greetings
Thomas

ps: the other way probably would be to stream it as MMS-stream, you can watch it also in Windows Media Player or VLC - of course.

greetings

[Ralph2]

Just tried with a VPN, it works Thanks a lot Thomas. Tried with mms but after a few seconds it just stops streaming, drops frames... anything to solve this ? TTL ?

[scoutice]

no, never had this problem. probably mms needs more cpu-time and your server is too slow? i did not face this problem yet.

what client did you use? VLC?
what version of VLC do you have on the server?

[Ralph2]

I have VLC 8.2 running on the server, and used VLC as client too... Locally it works fine, but over the net it just doesn't keep up and goes into "bottleneck mode" Bandwidth is not the issue either... I guess I'll keep trying.

[scoutice]

which protocol do you use? i recommend udp, since it seems to be the most stable protocol, when you are facing temporarily disconnections or packets get lost.

greetings

[Peter]

Hello to all,

First i like to thank the maker of these scripts, just what i was looking for.
Only got one small problem, i cant add a planned recorder time for recording tv shows. The browser says it has not got access and in the adresbar i see something i think has to do with it but i am not such a php guru, so i cant find the problem.

Browser msg when i add something :

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /< on this server.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/1.3.33 Server at 192.168.0.148 Port 9000

And this is what the adressbar in IE say´s :

http://192.168.0.148:9000/<?action=add& ... r_add.y=33

I think its missing something like a php file name in the adress after the 9000 but i cant find it.

the version of the scripts 0.3e

Thanx in advance
PEter

[scoutice]

hmm, strange. and the rest works? i'll have a look at it. is it only, when you add new recordings. the rest like watching live-tv works well?

greetings, thomas

[scoutice]

it was a small bug in the html. can you send me an email, that i send you the updated file to retry. if it works, I'll create a new version.

greetigns
thomas
my mailadress: thomas [at] familie-hofer [dot] net
or have a look on my homepage.
greetings