[Liverpool] Meeting Tomorrow

[Sebastian]

On 11/04/2010 11:36 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:26:33 +0000, Sebastian wrote:
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>>> 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.

Thanks Neil. That is interesting. So I should be able to send the "n" 
with xvkbd and switch between the streams. I will try it out as soon as 
I have a chance. That's excellent.

Sebastian

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