Ive set up a few VLC streams and can stream single videos. But I have not found any documentation on how to stream all videos in a certain directory. I'd like to either be able to play them randomly or in order by name. Although that doesn't matter, as long as it will move from one video to another, thats fine. Ideally I'd like to be able to add videos to the directory and have them move into the rotation without starting VLC everytime I add a new video. Anyone have experience doing this?

Running VLC on a linux box using the cli only.

11/12/2008 7:41:11 PM

playlist?

[Edited on November 12, 2008 at 11:53 PM. Reason : dunno if that option is on linux]

11/12/2008 11:52:36 PM

would rather not use a play list as I will be adding videos often and was hoping there was a way to tell vlc to just stream all .avi in the folder. But it's not looking possible

11/13/2008 1:34:49 PM

ls *.avi > playlist.txt; vlc -playlist playlist.txt

11/13/2008 5:57:45 PM

^ admit it.. You didn't really read my posts..


This works but I can't add files and have them join the queue.

cvlc --playlist-tree ~/*.avi --sout "#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=512,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=128}:std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=:1234" --loop

It only plays the avi's that are in the directory when vlc is started. close..

11/14/2008 7:06:29 PM

cron job to kill and restart vlc

/solved?

11/14/2008 7:10:54 PM

^ thats the plan if I cant figure out a way to get vlc to play nicely.

11/14/2008 7:13:53 PM