I want to watch a movie on my laptop, but listen to the audio on my
SB3-based sound system.
I have figured out how to do this on my OSX machine using both VLC (to
watch the movie) and NiceCast (to broadcast the audio coming from VLC
as a shoutcast stream.) It works! And what's better, because VLC lets
you set audio/video compensation (with the 'F' and 'G' keys), I can get
everything perfectly in sync.
But NiceCast costs $40 and I know that VLC is quite capable of
streaming all by itself. Unfortunately, it seems that the SlimCenter
7.0 and the SB3 have LOTS of trouble interpreting VLC's stream, even
though I've configured it to be a simple shoutcast stream. Other
software, like iTunes, has no problem listening to the exact same
stream. But when I try and listen via my SB3, the device actually
_crashes_! I'm serious, it reboots itself, which I've never seen
before.
Here is how I'm invoking VLC. This sets up my laptop to broadcast _just
the audio_ on port 8080, and it causes _only the video_ to display on my
machine:
vlc movie.avi --sout
"#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=256,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http,mux=raw,url=:8080},
select=novideo, dst=display, select=noaudio}"
The audio is transcoded to 256CBR MP3 audio -- good enough quality for
my ears.
So, why is my SB3 crashing on this stream? I've tried other MUX types,
and have had no luck getting the SB3 to "tune in." Like I said, I have
no problem getting iTunes to "listen" -- even iTunes on a non-local
machine.
Cheers,
DangerDave
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