[K12OSN] vlc multicast (whoohoo! ) pulling preferences : HOW-TO

[Peter Hartmann]

> to run vlc as a local app separately on each client

That sound like a great idea.  Hopefully you could just ./configure a
slim vlc for the clients that wouldn't need the extensive list of deps
that vlc normally needs. *maybe* you wouldn't even need wxwindows if
you new how to set a maximized view from the command line. Just the
thought of compiling all its deps by hand with the LBE makes my head
hurt.  Come to think of it I never could find any documentation on how
to design configure scripts for the LBE. Anybody know where I could
find thos docs? if you did have it set up that way i think one could
just just precede the command i had with:

ssh $LTSP_HOSTNAME

That's assuming you had the ssh keys set up.


> Unless I'm missing something, this runs all the instances of vlc
> on the server and the clients aren't doing anything with the multicast
> at all - the video is delivered via X protocol.

You're right I just reset my settings on the switch and it still works
using the same address so I guess it wasn' t involved at all.   who
knew!

Thanks,
Peter


On 7/27/06, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 12:15 -0400, Peter Hartmann wrote:
> > Then
> > in Fl_Teachertool I run this command for the users that I want to view
> > the multicast:
> >
> > vlc --config /path/to/my/good/config/file/vlcrc  udp:@224.0.0.1
>
> Unless I'm missing something, this runs all the instances of vlc
> on the server and the clients aren't doing anything with the multicast
> at all - the video is delivered via X protocol.  And if you stream on
> the same server it won't even traverse the switch connections.  That
> may be the best approach for some small number of clients.  Another way
> that might scale better at least with moderately fast clients would be
> to run vlc as a local app separately on each client but you'd have to
> come up with a different way to start it.
>
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
>
>
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