BEWARE: VLS is old and unmantained ... use VLC instead

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BEWARE: VLS is old and unmantained ... use VLC instead

Postby dionoea » 11 Aug 2005 16:51

VLS is old and hasn't been worked on since 2003. We strongly advise that you use VLC instead.
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Postby MariaMaggio » 30 Sep 2005 11:19

I agree with you but if nobody help me to solve the problem with vlc I try to follow another way.
What do you think?

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so why ?

Postby Capion » 02 Jul 2006 18:32

so Why are U making it available for download ??

:roll: :roll: :roll:

Now Ive spent a couple of hours installing it on my debian server ( ar to install and upgrade tge gcc g++ "system" also )..

only to find... it doesnt work, and no one helps..

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Postby dionoea » 02 Jul 2006 20:02

Why wouldn't we make available?
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Streaming with VLC vs. VLS: Video quality problem

Postby mustset » 23 Mar 2007 12:47

I have an issue of streaming a TS file over UDP. First I tried it using VLC (0.8.6), as recommended. I used the following parameter values:

- I stated a UDP address and a port
- MPEG TS was selected by default as the encapsulation method
- For transcoding options/video codec I selected h264 and 2048 kbps
- For transcoding options/audio codec I selected mp3 and 256 kbps
- All remaining settings are the same

The video quality was not satisfactory and I received some error messages such as "MPEG PES packet doesn't have a PTS" from an external application.

Secondly, I streamed the same input file using VLS with no options at all. The video quality was excellent.

I would rather use VLC instead of VLS for the following two reasons;
- The playlist functionality of VLC
- VLS is no more recommended by VideoLAN

Do I miss some configuration on VLC or is VLC does not fully replace VLS for streaming yet?

Thanking in advance,

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quality

Postby Albert » 03 Apr 2007 16:42

Hello,
VLC is able to do the same as VLS. I guess there could be a problem with the setting of transcoding. VLS streams the file "more simple way" (I guess) and with VLC you use "possibly problematic" transcoding feature.
Try to find a problem, try to use all possible transcoding options and if you were not successful, you could write a bugreport about broken transcoding options to developers.
Or you can use VLS :-)
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Postby mustset » 03 Apr 2007 17:06

Thanks for the reply Albert.

I'll further check the transcoding options. I will post a message, if I manage to find anything.

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Re: BEWARE: VLS is old and unmantained ... use VLC instead

Postby thedvdarchiver » 11 Dec 2007 21:58

hello there
new guy here
I was looking to use vls for a multicast stream but should I be using vlc for streaming a multicast signal?

I am using vlc on the encode side with an mpeg 2 card.

:D

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Re: BEWARE: VLS is old and unmantained ... use VLC instead

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 11 Dec 2007 22:30

yes
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