[mythtvnz] Multicast your noisy frontend or backend to a quiet box?

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:01 PM, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Seems VLC may be able to transcode and multi/unicast a desktop screen.
>
> I've not got it working but the flurry of debug messages suggest it might
> work, and it seems its flooding my LAN as traffic is challenged.
>
> VLC runs and may be casting the screen, however memory climbs until it, and
> the swap are exhausted where it then kills itself.
>
> Predictably VLC 1.1.4 looks more promising than 1.0.6.
>
> I am now using Frontend VLC server:
> DISPLAY=:0 cvlc -vv screen:// --sout
> "#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:standard{access=udp,mux=ts,url=239.255.12.42:5004}"
>
> VLC client also not sure, possibilities might include rtp or udp versions
> of:
> rtp://@:5004
> rtp://239.255.12.42@:5004
>
> Anyone interested in this concept or advancing it?

I fail to see what this has to do with mythtv.

But if you are trying to send a facsimile of a mythfrontend screen
around the house why not simply install mythfrontend on the  target
machine?