VOD announce

mankytongue · Postby **mankytongue** » 25 Jul 2005 12:56

Hello,

Is there any way to announce VOD services ? A sort of video version of DAAP?

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 25 Jul 2005 14:24

Well for multicast sessions there is SAP, but for video there isn't really something like DAAP. However you could look at Tryst.app

I think this basically does what you want for Broadcast instead of VoD, and it is built around VLC, so that's even better. I trust it could be adapted. (BTW, part of that technology should definetly start making it into upstream VLC)

mankytongue · Postby **mankytongue** » 25 Jul 2005 15:13

Is there not anyway to configure miniSAP to announce VOD?
I'm trying to find something that would run on my Debian box, I thyought perhaps I could get miniVLCS to work, but I can't get it to compile.

Anything I can do?

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 25 Jul 2005 15:18

No, because VoD require knowledge about the internals of what you stream and therefore needs to to what VLC does to retrieve that information. That's why it is only supported in VLC.

mankytongue · Postby **mankytongue** » 25 Jul 2005 18:46

I must have made a mistake explaining,

if I use VLM to provide VOD services from the server, say 3 files are available:

http://videoserv:5554/01
http://videoserv:5554/02
http://videoserv:5554/03

I can access them fine by typing in the above addresses, but is there no way to inform the instances of VLC running on other machines of the network that the VOD services are available? Is there no way of announcing the VOD services by means of a third-party system (like minisap does with streaming)?

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 25 Jul 2005 20:42

You can use the builtin sdp + sap systems. i think it is the sdp= paramater of the sout.

it can create file://, http://, rtsp:// and sap outputs for the SDP. So sdp=sap should post the SDP file in the internal VLC SAP announcer.

mankytongue · Postby **mankytongue** » 26 Jul 2005 13:55

Thanks for your help, but I'm not sure I quite understand,

could you possibly give an example of a config file for use with VLM using announces?

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 26 Jul 2005 14:05

This is for normal VLC streamoutput rtsp broadcast.
vlc -vvv input_stream --sout '#rtp{dst=192.168.0.12,port=1234,sdp=sap}'
For VoD with VLM i'm not sure how to do this.

Mmm, i actually checked and it seems the VoD core doesn't support SAP apparently. Strange i thought it did. OK, then i'm out of ideas

Guest · Postby **Guest** » 04 Jul 2006 10:52

You can use the builtin sdp + sap systems. i think it is the sdp= paramater of the sout.

it can create file://, http://, rtsp:// and sap outputs for the SDP. So sdp=sap should post the SDP file in the internal VLC SAP announcer.

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