Grab VLC frames through HTTP protocol

Question

Hello,

Is there any way to access a movie plaing in VLC through HTTP in jpeg/png format.

You see, what I want, is to have a movie playing in my local VLC player, and access currently playing frame through something like http://localhost:9999/current.jpg

Is there sucha way, or maybe someother tool can provide it?

Thanx a lot in advance

Answer 1

Hi

You have to use vlc mjpg output module

this cmd line works for me :

vlc.exe --sout="#transcode{acodec=none,vcodec=mjpg,vb=512}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http{mime=multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=--7b3cc56e5f51db803f790dad720ed50a},mux=mpjpeg,dst=0.0.0.0:8080/image.jpg},dst=display}" movie.avi

then, in any webpage (works on Chrome/Firefox)

<img src="http://127.0.0.1:8080/image.jpg" width="320" height="240"/>

or directly using vlc http://127.0.0.1:8080/image.jpg

hope this helps.