[Liverpool] Meeting Tomorrow

[Dan Lynch]

Hi folks,

This isn't really related to the discussion but here's the video I was
talking about last night. Darth Vader with alternative voices -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0rwG39Jzk

I'll let you get back to the technical talk now :)

Dan



On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Sebastian <shop at open-t.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 11/04/2010 11:36 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>
> 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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