Re: [gentoo-user] Video Network Stream from Pipe
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:29 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I'm currently trying to set up a personal video recorder in form of a headless server using mencoder and freevo. What I would like to do is watching the movie while mencoder is realtime encoding it to x264/vorbis in a Matroska container. I already tried it using sshfs. Unfortunately, the file is only read up to the point where it ended when playing it started. I don't know if NFS would behave better. Well, what I thought about was doing it like this: #!/bin/bash mencoder [...] -o - | tee video.mkv | stream-app So far it should work and vlc would be the natural choice for the streaming app. However, vlc seems unable to read from a pipe so I need something else. Can anyone give me a tip? maybe I missed an option in vlc or can someone propose an app that can be used instead? By the way: It's a 100MBit ethernet network without any switches or hubs. The machines are right next to each other. I hope it will be a 400 or even 500MBit net soon, but that's another topic ... I just want to give an update in case someone plans something like this: NFS does not have the problem sshfs had - problem solved. However, you can't navigate through files that mencoder did not yet finish muxing. To be able to do so, you must tell mplayer to create a new idx with -forceidx (just -idx might work as well and shouldn't harm files that already contain an index but I haven't tested it yet). signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Video Network Stream from Pipe
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:43 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:29:35 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: #!/bin/bash mencoder [...] -o - | tee video.mkv | stream-app So far it should work and vlc would be the natural choice for the streaming app. However, vlc seems unable to read from a pipe so I need something else. What about using a fifo, can vlc handle that? mkfifo mystream mencoder [...] -o - | tee video.mkv mystream streamapp mystream Thanks but that was one of my first thoughts. I've tried cat [Matroska-file] test.fifo vlc test.fifo. VLC thought it was a DVD and could not read it. I also tried telling vlc to use the mkv demuxer with --demux mkv but then I've got: [0254] mkv demuxer error: Not a Matroska file : DocType = [0254] mkv demuxer error: cannot find KaxSegment [0247] main input error: no suitable demux module for `/mkv://TYFS.mkv' I don't think streaming would fare any better if the streaming server can't recognize the format, am I right? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Video Network Stream from Pipe
Hi! I'm currently trying to set up a personal video recorder in form of a headless server using mencoder and freevo. What I would like to do is watching the movie while mencoder is realtime encoding it to x264/vorbis in a Matroska container. I already tried it using sshfs. Unfortunately, the file is only read up to the point where it ended when playing it started. I don't know if NFS would behave better. Well, what I thought about was doing it like this: #!/bin/bash mencoder [...] -o - | tee video.mkv | stream-app So far it should work and vlc would be the natural choice for the streaming app. However, vlc seems unable to read from a pipe so I need something else. Can anyone give me a tip? maybe I missed an option in vlc or can someone propose an app that can be used instead? By the way: It's a 100MBit ethernet network without any switches or hubs. The machines are right next to each other. I hope it will be a 400 or even 500MBit net soon, but that's another topic ... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Video Network Stream from Pipe
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:29:35 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: #!/bin/bash mencoder [...] -o - | tee video.mkv | stream-app So far it should work and vlc would be the natural choice for the streaming app. However, vlc seems unable to read from a pipe so I need something else. What about using a fifo, can vlc handle that? mkfifo mystream mencoder [...] -o - | tee video.mkv mystream streamapp mystream -- Neil Bothwick Quark! Quark! Beware the quantum duck! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
