Integration with VLC? about fling HOT 10 CLOSED

Using vlcj (http://www.capricasoftware.co.uk/projects/vlcj/index.html), I get the following error:

stream_out_standard stream out error: mov and mp4 mux are only valid with file output

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Ah, bummer. There was no error message when I set up the stream and my browser started downloading something... I didn't wait for the whole move to download. So perhaps muxing this way is a no-go.

The available HTTP streams are listed here: http://www.videolan.org/streaming-features.html. The other option is VP8/WebM but I don't see any mention on that page...

The message makes it sound like it's just a container issue so maybe you can stick h.264 video into a different container?

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I'm not a VLC expert. If you can figure out what I need to send to VLC, I will code that.

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I'm no expert either... but VLC can stream the webm format just fine. Try this:

:sout=#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=2000,width=800,acodec=vorb,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:http{mux=webm,dst=:8087/cast.webm} :sout-keep

That should produce a proper webm-formatted stream (chrome plays it fine; don't know about the chromecast). Stuff to mess with might include:

• width=800 which is the output resolution width (maybe try =540 to simulate casting a medium quality tab?)
• vb=2000 which is the video bitrate (lower for lower-quality)
• dst=:8087/cast.webm which specifies the port to play on (8087) and the url (so http://192.168.0.12:8087/cast.webm opens up the stream on my machine.

Encoding on-the-fly is quite intensive, unfortunately. The video plays beautifully but my quad-core Xeon sits at ~5.7 load average. I suppose converting them in advance might be in order. Then I could just cast the h.264 files as you're doing now.

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Setting width=540 and vb=1000 still looks good but drops the load down to 1.6, which I think would be pretty reasonable for most.

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That works! I'll do more testing, then check the code in.

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Great! I'm sure XBMC et al. will eventually have similar functionality but it'd be great to have a lightweight drag-n-drop transcoder/player. I'll try it out and give feedback tonight/whenever you push.

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I think I need to make the settings configurable. Probably will check in tomorrow.

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There's a lot you could do to expand... transcode/not transcode, transcode settings, you could queue up several items, etc. Hope to play with it soon 👍.

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I decided to keep the settings simple. I have updated the readme with details. I have checked in the code. I have only tested the code on OS X.

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