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    From Shurato@21:2/148 to All on Sun Aug 20 05:41:00 2023
    I'm streaming a video from vlc to icecast, and that works successfully. I'm even able to put a link on my web site. The problem comes with the video
    ends. VLC dies without an error. If I try to repeat, same problem. I can't seem to stream more than one video either, so I turned 38 eps into one long video (15+hrs), but the stream always dies when it ends. I'm using Vetinari
    w/ win10Pro64. Any other suggestions? I'm willing to use Linux as a
    solution, if it's not to difficult. I've got a Debian 11 VM right now not doing much other than allowing my BBS to have SSH.

    Thanks!

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    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, smtp, ftp nntp)
    (ports 22, 23, 25, 21, 119)


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
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  • From phigan@21:3/177 to Shurato on Wed Aug 23 15:07:51 2023
    I'm streaming a video from vlc to icecast

    You definitely could find an easier solution with linux, I think Icecast even has their own client called "ezstream".

    If you can get one video to play, have you tried making a batch file?
    Make a for loop go through the directory listing of video files and run VLC with each one. Then nest that in a neverending while or whatever.
    Examples for these are searchable, as I've needed them before for Windows syntax too.

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  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to phigan on Thu Aug 24 22:58:00 2023

    I'm streaming a video from vlc to icecast

    You definitely could find an easier solution with linux, I think Icecast even has their own client called "ezstream".

    If you can get one video to play, have you tried making a batch file?
    Make a for loop go through the directory listing of video files and run VLC with each one. Then nest that in a neverending while or whatever. Examples for these are searchable, as I've needed them before for Windows syntax too.

    The video has to be streamed from within vlc, even a playlist with commands won't do it. I had thought about doing that, but thanks for the idea! I haven't found a way to automate this. Ok, I'll look at ezstream.

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    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, smtp, ftp nntp)
    (ports 22, 23, 25, 21, 119)


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    ---
    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (21:2/148)
  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to Shurato on Fri Aug 25 21:50:00 2023

    I'm streaming a video from vlc to icecast

    You definitely could find an easier solution with linux, I think
    Icecast
    even has their own client called "ezstream".

    If you can get one video to play, have you tried making a batch file? Make a for loop go through the directory listing of video files and
    run
    VLC with each one. Then nest that in a neverending while or whatever. Examples for these are searchable, as I've needed them before for
    Windows
    syntax too.

    The video has to be streamed from within vlc, even a playlist with commands won't do it. I had thought about doing that, but thanks
    for the idea! I haven't found a way to automate this. Ok, I'll look
    at ezstream.

    ezstream (in the icecast download page) got me running! It turns out that
    the VLC .ogg converter is broken. I had to use videoproc (which I already owned for other purposes) and converted my files to .ogv, which ezstream handles quite well. It took a bit to get everything configured properly, but the man page and the examples helped greatly.

    ---
    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, smtp, ftp nntp)
    (ports 22, 23, 25, 21, 119)


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    ---
    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (21:2/148)