Robin Rawson-Tetley

11 March, 2008

I maintain the VLC integration with mvpmc. You can use the following functions while playing VLC video streams:

• SKIP/REPLAY will skip 30 seconds forwards and 10 seconds backwards in the stream
• UP/DOWN and FFWD/REWIND will skip 5% forwards and backwards in the stream
• LEFT/RIGHT will skip 2% forwards and backwards in the stream
• BLANK/OK will show the OSD and output the current stream position
• Number keys take you to 10*key of the stream (eg: 9 = 90%)
• RECORD will resync video and audio
• PAUSE now works correctly and will resume by reconnecting to the stream
• OSD support for all functions and stream interrogation so you can see how far you are currently through the playing stream.
• MVPMC automatically sets best transcoding options based on internal configuration
• Subtitle files are now overlaid onto the transcoded stream
• VLC settings menu to control audio/video transcoding presets
• VLC command line options for audio/video transcoding presets
• Persistence of VLC options to external configuration files

TODO

• Investigate multiple transcoding sessions for a single VLC server serving multiple MVP boxes (unique broadcoast names and ports)
• Audio/Video resync is broken in 0.3.4 (it used an old hack) and should really be a hotkey to pause/unpause since this clears everything down and reconnects to the stream.
• Reduce logging noise/space by using stdout for debug and connect.log for important items only
• Use si.rows instead of AV_PAL/NTSC to determine TV type
• Show accurate timecode on OSD
• VLC videos playing as thumbnail in file browser should go back to fullscreen if selected again
• Command line switches for pre-set transcodes and bitrates
• Settings menu for VLC pre-sets
• Investigate support for subtitles
• Look at patching VLC to allow time-based relative seeking in the telnet interface
• Add +30/-10 second commercial skipping
• Improve transcoding defaults so VLC works much better without having to set lots of VLC command line options (should be driven by mvpmc config options, but may need additional options)

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