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vlc screen:// :screen-fps=30 :screen-caching=100 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=4096,acodec=mpga,ab=256,scale=1,width=1280,height=800}:rtp{dst=192.168.1.2,port=1234,access=udp,mux=ts}'
2011-12-10 17:09:29
User: fishbulb1022
Tags: stream streaming vlc desktop sharing
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Stream your desktop to a remote machine.

This allows you to stream your desktop using vlc to another computer, in this case, 192.168.1.2 on your local network. If you have vlc installed, your all set to try this out. To view your own desktop, just run "vlc screen://"

For more info, see http://nerdlogger.com/2008/01/08/stream-your-linuxwindowsmac-desktop-as-video-using-vlc/

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cat video.ogg | nc -l -p 4232 & wget http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/?nombre=name -O - & sleep 10; mplayer http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/datos/name.ogg
2010-11-29 03:34:31
User: el_bazza
Functions: cat sleep wget
Tags: video audio ogg mplayer stream streaming vorbis Videos webcam vlc theora
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Send and streamming video to web

Is a simple script for video streaming a movie

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bbcradio() { local s PS3="Select a station: ";select s in 1 1x 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Asian Network an" "Nations & Local lcl";do break;done;s=($s);mplayer -playlist "http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r"${s[@]: -1}".asx";}
2009-11-14 08:17:03
User: eightmillion
Tags: mplayer stream function radio bbc
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Listen to BBC Radio from the command line.

This command lets you select from 10 different BBC stations. When one is chosen, it streams it with mplayer.

Requires: mplayer with wma support.

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mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile "yourfile" -playlist "URL"
2009-02-28 22:18:17
User: Alanceil
Tags: video mplayer stream rip
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Use mplayer to save video streams to a file

I use this command to save RTSP video streams over night from one of our national TV stations, so I won't have to squeeze the data through my slow internet connection when I want to watch it the next day.

For ease of use, you might want to put this in a file:

#!/bin/bash

FILE="`basename \"$1\"`"

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile "$FILE" -playlist "$1"

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