VLC Media Player Stream Output

[HappyZombiSlayr 10]

Through a little bit of reading on the Emby community forum, I've encountered a lot about VLC as an external player, where Emby Server clients use a player on the same device to support video playback. I'd like to clarify right off the bat that this is not what I'm asking about.

Similar to an external player, I'm wondering whether it is possible for Emby Server to use VLC Media Player to stream a video and forward its playback from VLC to a connected Emby client.

I did a bit of research and it seems like VLC can be used to create a stream output using its CLI interface, supporting a range of video protocols (HTTP, RTP, RTSP, UDP).

vlc "<Video-Input-File>" --sout="<StreamConfiguration>"

I can particularly see this as a useful implementation for Emby, as it would allow most (if not all) client applications to display streams of video formats they may not natively support. I think this would be a very helpful feature as a secondary server-configurable playback option, instead of having to use an external player.

Using an external player is helpful, but for something like DVDs, it's only possible to play them on the client with the external application. Personally, I'd love it if all my applications (TV, PC, Web, iOS, & Android) could play the same videos without requiring an external player. -- The only limitations (I could imagine) are client input forwarding, i.e. translating keys, forward/backwards skip, play/pause, etc.

[Luke 42077]

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I can particularly see this as a useful implementation for Emby, as it would allow most (if not all) client applications to display streams of video formats they may not natively support.

Hi, don’t we already have this with Emby server’s ffmpeg based transcoding?

[HappyZombiSlayr 10]

Hi Luke,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'll take a look at this and play around with my files to see if this covers the bases for what I'm looking to stream.