Add update.

diff --git a/blog/data/2018-07-12-kodi-linux-desktop-vlc.txt b/blog/data/2018-07-12-kodi-linux-desktop-vlc.txt
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--- a/blog/data/2018-07-12-kodi-linux-desktop-vlc.txt
+++ b/blog/data/2018-07-12-kodi-linux-desktop-vlc.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,36 @@ the audio quality is really bad.  No idea if the problem is package
 loss or bad parameters for the transcode.  I do not know VLC nor Kodi
 enough to tell.</p>
 
+<p><strong>Update 2018-07-12</strong>: Johannes Schauer send me a few
+succestions and reminded me about an important step.  The "screen:"
+input source is only available once the vlc-plugin-access-extra
+package is installed on Debian.  Without it, you will see this error
+message: "VLC is unable to open the MRL 'screen://'.  Check the log
+for details."  He further found that it is possible to drop some parts
+of the VLC command line to reduce the amount of hardcoded information.
+It is also useful to consider using cvlc to avoid having the VLC
+window in the desktop view.  In sum, this give us this command line on
+the source end
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+cvlc screen:// --sout \
+  '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8080/}'
+</pre></blockquote>
+n
+<p>and this on the Kodi end<p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+echo rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/ \
+  > /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>Still bad image quality, though.  But I did discover that streaming
+a DVD using dvdsimple:///dev/dvd as the source had excellent video and
+audio quality, so I guess the issue is in the input or transcoding
+parts, not the rtsp part.  I've tried to change the vb and ab
+parameters to use more bandwidth, but it did not make a
+difference.</p>
+
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