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How to display a video stream from an IP address in a webpage?

I have been given a network IP address. In the format of http://192.168.1.15 When I enter this address into VLC Player, it streams fine. The stream itself is a DVB/MPEG TS stream transcoded to MP4. What steps do I need to take to display this in a webpage? ...

How do I tell the browser to open an avi file with VLC or similar in HTML?

So I have a list of avi files on a web page (For my own purposes!), and was wondering what do I have to put into the html code to tell the browser to open VLC? or mplayer or simliar? ...

Converting an old cell phone into a webcam

I have an old T-Mobile MDA. It has WiFi, Windows Mobile and a camera. I would like to convert it to be used as a baby monitor. Ideally, I could do this with just be a port of VLC to Windows Mobile, but I didn't see any binaries of that sort. Does anyone have any suggestions? All the hardware is there. I just to write or use an appl...

Linux application that bundles multiple incoming audio and video streams into one container file?

I've been assigned to implement a video on-demand service for a local university. Different aspects of the lectures (video, audio, screen cast, white board) will be recorded. During a lecture all these data streams arrive at one Linux server. This server should transcode and bundle all these streams into one container (Matroska) file. M...

Streaming the desktop

I want to create a C++ cross-platform (Windows and MacOS X) application that sends the screen as a video stream to a server. The application is needed in the context of lecture capture. The end result will be a Flash based web page that plays back the lecture (presenter video and audio + slides/desktop). I am currently exploring a few ...

Launching applications silently?

My C++ application calls VLC as a subprocess. Is there a way to avoid having the GUI pop-up? I am looking for a Mac and a Windows solution. Hackish workarounds are welcome too. PS: I know there is such a thing as cvlc (command-line version of VLC), but I haven't found any builds for it online. You do get it when you make the build yours...

Anyone used libvlc on Mac?

Edit I've been able to simplify the reproduction of the error: When trying to build this sample: $ cc example.c -arch i386 -lvlc.2 -L/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/ -I/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/include/ -o example $ ./example dyld: Library not loaded: @loader_path/lib/libvlc.2.dylib Referenced from: /Users/fran...

VLC desktop streaming

Edit I stopped using VLC and switched to GMax FLV Encoder. It does a much better job IMO. Original post I am sending my desktop (screen) as an H264 video stream to another machine that saves it to a file using the follwoing command lines: Sender of the stream: vlc -I dummy --sout='#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=512,scale=0.5} ...

A problem with complie VLCKit framework

according to this page http://wiki.videolan.org/Mac%5FOS%5FX%5FFramework i build the core components complete but when i try to build framework it have an error How could i fix it? Build VLCKit of project VLCKit with configuration Debug PhaseScriptExecution "Run Script" build/VLCKit.build/Debug/VLCKit.build/Script-EF78BD2E0CAEEF95003...

Getting "cross-thread operation not valid" even when using invoke method.

Hi... I get the "cross-thread operation not valid" here: if ( vlc.State == VlcPlayerControlState.PLAYING ) { if ( vlc.InvokeRequired ) { vlc.Invoke( new MediaPlayerNoParameterDelegate( vlc.Stop ) ); } else { vlc.Stop(); // debugger point...

Embed VLC player in GWT

Hello, I want to embed a VLC player in my webapp build with Google's GWT. First I had a look at this page: http://wiki.videolan.org/GWT, which offers a nice solution but I add to implements all javascript functions calls (play, stop, fullscreen) with JSNI. Then I found gwt-player (hosted by Google code) which does all the job for me b...

How to create video streaming using C#

Hi all, I have been working on the solution to develop video streaming web services using C#. I am using Windows XP, with the latest version of vlc 1.0.3 to stream video over LAN network. However, currently, I could only manage to stream video on my own PC. Problem now is I need to perform this stream button in web services instead. Doe...

streaming video to and from multiple sources

I wanted to get some ideas one how some of you would approach this problem. I've got a robot, that is running linux and uses a webcam (with a v4l2 driver) as one of its sensors. I've written a control panel with gtkmm. Both the server and client are written in C++. The server is the robot, client is the "control panel". The image analysi...

Microphone UDP live audio streaming

I'm trying write a java program to send live microphone data over UDP, then receive the data in VLC. I'm basically using the same code as in this post to package up the stream and send them over. When I receive the data in VLC, I get nothing. I see a bunch of input coming in but none of it is interpreted as audio data. It tries to resolv...

VLC/Python bindings?

Does anyone know how to implement the VLC Python bindings? I downloaded vlc.py and vlcwidget.py from the VLC wiki (http://wiki.videolan.org/Python_bindings) and tried to run vlcwidget. Other than having vlc installed, do I need to do anything else, or should I just be able to run 'python vlcwidget.py '? Because that is not working for...

vlc player screen capturing

Hi everybody! If I turn on the outputmode "directx video-output" in vlc video I'm not able to make a screenshot (without getting a black image). So 2 questions: 1.) Is there any solution to capture the image without changing the settings in vlc-player? 2.) If not, how can i get this effect for my application using c# (prevered) or c++?...

Prevent screen capturing with DirectX

Hi everybody! I would like to render a single image using DirectX. It should work similar to VLC player's "directx video output", were it is not possible to capture a frame using simple screen capturing software or the printscreen-key. It should not be possible (or very difficult) to make a screenshot! Does anyone know how this works i...

Grab VLC frames through HTTP protocol

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 advan...

a cross platform video framework?

Hi all we are looking for a cross platform video framework to add to our application, that would allow us to read video files in various formats, get their frames and play them. One suggestion was VLC/VideoLan, but its a GPL framework and therefore we can't use it We thought of Apple's QuickTime, but it can't read WMV files (and needs...

Embedding VLC on Windows

How to access the webcam on windows (XP)? On Linux, I'd use the MRL "v4l2://", as in: libvlc_media_new(libvlc_new(),"v4l2://",&libvlc_exception_t) And let it detect it automagically. I know, this could fail sometimes. ...