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Transcode video with VideoLAN Client
Authored by: bluehz on Aug 28, '03 07:20:30PM

Can you give a little more detail about how to transcode? Whats teh exact process? For one thing I am not seeing any "transcode settings" even in the "Advanced Settings". Maybe I am looking in the wrong place. Checks the VLC docs, but they don't seem to say anything about transcoding either.



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using correct version..
Authored by: tetsuotheironman on Aug 28, '03 07:35:13PM

you must be using the latest version of Videolan for this to work...
at the very bottom.. before you open a file... there is an option to check for 'Advanced Output'

check this box and you can stream/transcode video..



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using correct version..
Authored by: bluehz on Aug 29, '03 07:48:03AM

I finally got it. Seems you have to select "Open Disk" to get the Advanced checkbox. You will still get a chance to select only a file in the dialog that appears though.

Doesn't really matter though. Every time I tried transcoding something using various settings, VLC would fail with some error... can't remember exactly, something about being "stuck". Never completed even the smallest transcode.



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using correct version..
Authored by: bluehz on Aug 29, '03 07:53:27AM

... also - I was looking for a way to use the cli version of VLC, but I never found any info. Turns out if you go into the VLC pkg contents, and execute the VLC command in the terminal you will be able to use the cli client.

cd /Applications/vlc-0.6.2/VLC/contents/MacOS
./VLC -h

if you just execute ./VLC all it does is luanch the app itself.

Some interesting stuff inside the pkg too. Have a look at /Applications/vlc-0.6.2/VLC/contents/MacOS/share/ some interesting admin web pages. NOt sure exactly how they are used though. I was impressed to find that VLC can actually be used to stream files TO other location. Similar to a poorman's QuickTimeStreamingServer... also VLS, is a full fledged QTSS replacement.



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Transcode video with VideoLAN Client
Authored by: tetsuotheironman on Aug 28, '03 07:51:28PM
there isn't much doc wise at the site (nothing OS X specific)
Doc Links

there's some cmdline stuff (notice the section on Advanced Output)
here's a wiki page mentioning it.. (but nothing doc wise yet)
http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/VLC%20Stream%20Output

this help?

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