VLC on a displayless GENTOO box: Only want to re-stream

[rawbear]

I have installed VLC on GENTOO. Everything worked and compiled. When I started VLC and tried to stream a mp3 file it worked until:

[00000176] main stream output debug: using sout chain=`std{mux="",access="http",url="www.mysite.com"}'
[00000176] main stream output debug: stream=`std'
[00000177] main private debug: looking for sout stream module
[00000177] main private debug: probing 0 candidates
[00000177] main private error: no sout stream module matched "std"
[00000177] main private debug: destroying chain... (name=std)
[00000177] main private debug: destroying chain done

Obviously it can't find a way to present the data. What gives?

BTW, I am planning to use VLC to stream a network stream from another computer. There is no graphics interface on the linux box, i.e. it will never play a stream, just re-stream it to the internet.

[xtophe]

Please see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-gentoo.html. It look like you're missing the "stream USE flag.

hth

[rawbear]

Duhhhhh

Thanks a million! I'm fine tuning now. The server (Linux Gentoo on an old Pentium 400Mhz) is averaging 13% CPU streaming a DVD running on a LAN Windows PC. That's what I was trying to do: send a stream to the Web server that would relay it to the network/internet. That server does not play the stream, it's just a relay. It doesn't even have a decent graphics card (only VGA with 2 Megs)! No X, nothing. It has no dvd reader.

Thanks again.

[rawbear]

The setup is:
PC1: Windows VLC reading a dvd (or other source) and using upd to send to the linux server on the LAN. Codecs are DIV3 and mp3 to allow compatibility with MS Player down the line. The source PC is doing the hard work.

PC2: Linux Gentoo receiving udp: from PC1. No transcoding (nothing installed as I want to keep the server light and not busy). So
vlc -vvv udp: --sout '#std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh}'

PC3..PCn running VLC (mmsh://server:8080) or browser calling mms://servername:8080) that calls Windows Media Player. WMP has a 5-7 seconds lag between audio and video. I will do research on this.

Next step: feed the web cam to the linux server for distribution (conference)