On 9/19/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am wondering if anyone here did anything with regards to using VLC to
> stream/playback VoD streams. (using VLC's RTSP streaming)
I just started looking into this myself. The vlc documentation doesn't
seem that good in regards to rtsp. This is the method I've got going
so far:
1. Start the server:
> vlc -- --ttl 5 -vvv --color -I telnet --telnet-password
videolan --rtsp-host 192.168.2.254:5554
2. Connect via telnet to 4212 and issue the following commands for
each of my captured shows:
new 1025_20050926200000_20050926203000.nuv vod enabled
setup 1025_20050926200000_20050926203000.nuv input
/mythfiles/recordings/1025_20050926200000_20050926203000.nuv
3. Edit MythWeb's conf.php file to have the following line:
define('video_url', 'rtsp://192.168.2.254:5554');
Now when I browse my recorded shows in mythweb I can click on any of
them and get a stream. I also wrote a script which runs every day that
telnets into 4212 deletes all the current streams and then adds a new
one for every file in my /mythfiles/recordings/ directory. I would
love it if this could be a little more automatic as each show is
recorded but I haven't sat down and actually done this. What would be
great is if VLC could be told to stream every file in a directory on
demand.
Also the stream isn't compatible with realplayer or quicktime. I
haven't figured out how to get rtsp streams to automatically open with
the vlc player on a mac, so for now I just have to copy the url and
paste it in the player. But more importantly I would like it to be
compatible with as many other clients as possible. I have a feeling
the incompatibilities are due to the nuv format that the files are
saved in (quicktime could play the audio, but not video, realplayer
did nothing).
I read a bit about using vlc to do transcoding on the server side, but
I haven't figured it out yet. I would love to have the video
transcoded to some very compatible format and deinterlaced. Has anyone
done anything like this with video captured from a PVR350 in the nuv
format?
> Mplayer seems to jerk after the initial buffering when I play back RTSP
> streams.
VLC plays the streams very smoothly.
-Steven Willis
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