[Liverpool] Meeting Tomorrow

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:26:33 +0000, Sebastian wrote:

> > That looks a useful command. Instead of running several vlc windows
> > and using Alt-Tab, run one instance with all the streams
> >
> > cvlv stream1 stream2 ...  
> 
> Is this a documented feature? I thought that cvlc would only take one 
> single input stream as argument. Otherwise, how would it know what to
> do with all the streams - where to display or send them all?
> 
> I know there can be multiple output streams though.
> 
> Edit: just looked it up. This is from the VLC wiki:
> 
> "You can specify multiple streams on the commandline. They will be 
> enqueued in the playlist.
> The first item specified will be played first."
> 
> So it seems that as long as data keeps on coming down the first stream, 
> the subsequent streams are ignored.

That's right, unless you press n to switch to the next stream (just as
when you are watching a series of files and you use n to skip to the next
before the current one has finished).

I tried it with two HTTP streams (from motion) and n toggled between
them each time it was pressed, so it looks like it should do exactly what
you need with the six streams. I thought it would need the --repeat
option to go back to the first stream but that wasn't necessary here. 


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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