VLC as a proxy

[RyanWillDotCom]

Coming from Threadfin/Xteve, I had a better streaming experience when using VLC.
FFMPEG had frequent pauses while watching some content. When I switched to VLC to restream it, the issues went away.

I seem to have the same issue with FFMPEG when using m3u-editor.

I'd love to see an option to use VLC.

[sparkison]

VLC and FFmpeg are two distinct tools with different primary functions. FFmpeg is a command-line tool primarily used for encoding, decoding, and manipulating media files, while VLC is a media player. Not sure what you're asking is possible.

[RyanWillDotCom]

Threadfin and xteve use it for this. An example command line is
cvlc --quiet -I dummy [URL] --sout #std{mux=ts,access=file,dst=-}

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help/
Stream output
These options allow you to set default global options for the stream output subsystem

[sparkison]

nice, I'll take a look!

[sparkison]

quick Q on this, are the issues mostly present when the Playlist output is set to HLS, or does it happen for TS too? I've not experienced any issues with TS streaming, so just wanted to confirm which format you were using for the proxy.

[RyanWillDotCom]

I switched everything to TS and it seems to play fine so far. Might just be HLS.

[sparkison]

we've been playing with the HLS playback – it's gotten better, but still needs some tweaks for the defaults to work better I think. TS is pretty straight forward and doesn't do any transcoding, so works more like VLC in that sense. It's definitely the most straight forward.