From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 09:50:00 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Add update. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/55f26c76658e887e62d6d57835726ee258b79067?hp=01e08cd74c52f3d629bbc6958e005e430b0921a0 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 index 1a11f87296..2de00dbdc2 100644 --- 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.

+

Update 2018-07-12: 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 + +

+cvlc screen:// --sout \
+  '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8080/}'
+
+n +

and this on the Kodi end

+ +

+echo rtsp://192.168.11.4:8080/ \
+  > /storage/videos/screenstream.m3u
+
+ +

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.

+

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