2006-05-27, 03:17 AM
i actualkly had vlc playing the stream in gbpvr using timeshift last night..
[the nasa feed] by upping the output time delay...but i noticed vlc's odd behavior that it doesn't really correct the timestamps in the stream so it's total time/etc. are way off.. [known vlc problem] and ff/rw are pretty much unusable...
so i decided to pipe vlc into mencoder to just fix the timestamps and it worked! didn't even use over 10%cpu either!
ff/rw worked great! [no seekeing from start of file] then i tried to pipe into ffmpeg [which can do same thing] and it wouldn't work..
i'll have to check the line to make sure it's still working but i had it there for a while..tried mencoder straight for encode but it sometimes can't open web streams..
the vlc->mencoder trick does get 29fps with almost no cpu usage..
but the startup times are sometimes long so may have to try more than once to get it to stream/transcode successfully..
will put up the command-line i used later..i wanna recheck it..
basically just use "-" [no quotes]for output filename from vlc and for input to mencoder with a | in the middle and copy streams but add the -idx option to re-index...will post example later
[the nasa feed] by upping the output time delay...but i noticed vlc's odd behavior that it doesn't really correct the timestamps in the stream so it's total time/etc. are way off.. [known vlc problem] and ff/rw are pretty much unusable...
so i decided to pipe vlc into mencoder to just fix the timestamps and it worked! didn't even use over 10%cpu either!
ff/rw worked great! [no seekeing from start of file] then i tried to pipe into ffmpeg [which can do same thing] and it wouldn't work..
i'll have to check the line to make sure it's still working but i had it there for a while..tried mencoder straight for encode but it sometimes can't open web streams..
the vlc->mencoder trick does get 29fps with almost no cpu usage..
but the startup times are sometimes long so may have to try more than once to get it to stream/transcode successfully..
will put up the command-line i used later..i wanna recheck it..
basically just use "-" [no quotes]for output filename from vlc and for input to mencoder with a | in the middle and copy streams but add the -idx option to re-index...will post example later
Hardware: HDHR Prime, HDPVR 1212, Raspberry pi2, VFD display w/LCDSmartie