Viewing in VLC

MotionBox
#1

Hi Everybody, I hope this finds you all well.

Does anybody know if it is possible, in Debian, to ‘pipe’ the output of MotionBox to view it in VLC?

Regards

daveA

#2

That’s not possible right now. But I’m open to contributions.

Supposedly since MotionBox uses libVLC you shouldn’t need that for classic playback.

#3

Hi bunjee,

Thanks for your reply. I don’t have the skill to be able to contribute I’m afraid, sorry. The reason I would like to view in vlc is to be able to use a different renderer, such as a television in another part of the house, for example. If that’s not possible then no problem I’ll stick to using it as is.

Thanks for a great program.

Regards

daveA

#4

Hi bunjee I hope you are well in the current times. My original request in this ‘subject’ was to be able to, via vlc, render on another device. Lo and behold what do I find on the latest update but the ability to do just that. Thank you so much, you’ve turned an excellent program into a stupendous one. Thanks again.

Regrads

daveA

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#5

To be fair, it’s Chromecast support and does not work for everything. But thank you for your kind words.

I’ll be working on something new that actually improves this situation in the future.

#6

Also, feedback like yours is fairly rare and heartwarming. Cheers to you my good man :beer:

#7

I’ve got a Sony tv with Chromecast built in and it works really well.

Yes, you just can’t please some people.

Thanks again

Regards

daveA

#8

Hi @bunjee

Again, thank you for this good project (I’ve noticed that 1 bug that was very impacting me on Ubuntu is fixed in the version 1.8.0, so I’m even more happy)!

1.8.0 comes with the Chromecast feature. Unfortunately I don’t have any Chromecast because I don’t have TV so I could not test it…

Do you remember our discussion regarding a theater mode for multi-monitors configuration ?

Do you think it would be possible to add a button somewhere here (see screenshot) that just opens a clone of the main video to an external VLC window ?

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Is this “theater mode” scheduled in your roadmap ?

sorry if I may be insistant sometimes… :wink:

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#9

Yes that’s a good idea. That’s not entirely my priority at the moment but I would like to have something along those lines at one point.

#10

What was the bug exactly ?

#11

It was a problem with a third party library. I cannot find/remember the ticket, but I’m sure I’ve already seen some people complaining about this problem either on the forum here or issue on github.

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