Using VLC to host a stream of an infinite video loop

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I want to offer a video stream from my pc with a VLC player trough a WIFI network to smartphones for regression testing. The video should automatically restart at the beginning after being finished on the smartphone.

I'm currently using rtsp as protocol and the loop option, but this is no mandatory. The problem is, that every time the video restarts a new rtsp handshake is necessary. Since most of the smartphone apps I tested don't support reconnecting the stream automatically after being finished, I want to have only one handshake being valid all over the time.

vlc mypath\myvideo.mp4 sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=none}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/} --loop

Thank you

Is possible that the same problem prevent video from looping in a web browser? — teone, Mar 06 '16 at 18:24

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 06 '18 at 15:01

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Thank you freeforall tousez!

The gather:std setting worked great for me. Below is my command line string for RTSP with a playlist.

cvlc --random --loop /var/www/html/files/test.xspf :sout=#gather:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/} :network-caching=1500 :sout-all :sout-keep

This streams a playlist of videos randomly in a never ending loop. I hope this will help others.

edited Mar 06 '18 at 15:01

Eray Balkanli

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answered Mar 06 '18 at 14:18

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yep it helped me too – Salem May 15 '18 at 16:38
I'm trying to use this command in an HTTP source: cvlc --loop "http://192.168.1.51/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi?d=1&q=0&chn=0&u=admin&p=test" :sout=#gather:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/} :network-caching=1500 :sout-all :sout-keep ---- but then trying to read it, I see a bunch of "[rtsp @ 0xc291c0] Missed previous RTP Marker" and ffmpeg can't read the rtsp stream. Any ideas? – Hackeron Nov 10 '20 at 23:01

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 29 '15 at 06:11

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you need to use --sout-keep which keeps the stream output open (disabled by default)

and use gather:std and transcode option if the files use different encoding so that there wouldn't be any noticeable interruption on input change.

see:

1: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Command_Line_Examples/#Keeping_the_stream_open

2: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/gather/

answered Sep 29 '15 at 06:11

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I'm trying to do that, but ffmpeg -I still detects end of file. my command is: cvlc --no-audio --loop --demux 'avformat' --avformat-format=mjpeg images-fifo --fps-fps 5 --mjpeg-fps 5 --sout-transcode-fps 5 --sout-keep --sout '#standard{access=http{mime="multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=7b3cc56e5f51db803f790dad720ed50a"},mux=mpjpeg,dst='":8084/video.mjpeg}" vlc://pause:10 ---- any ideas? – Hackeron Nov 13 '20 at 19:28

Using VLC to host a stream of an infinite video loop

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