
I have had success with using VLC alone to capture and stream a desktop region to HTTP (as ts, x264/ac3 and also as ps mp2v/ac3). I usually use Serviio to play files from my Windows 7 PC to my Sony BDP-S590 Blu-ray player, but sometimes I want to stream a live capture from my desktop as an Online Source. The script will run ffmpeg.exe in a command window and then play the newly created avi file in VLC.EDIT: Setting ffmpeg to -s 1280x720 made the stream playable on the Sony. flv file, choose the Send To "fly-out" menu, and then your shortcut.
Copy/Paste or Drag the shortcut to your SendTo folder (c:\Documents and Settings\ Username\SendTo) you can rename it to something shorter if you like. Right-click the file and choose Create Shortcut. vbs (if you cannot see the extension, use Tools > Folder Options., View to stop hiding file extensions) Using Windows Explorer or My Computer, rename the file from the. Download the script to the same folder where you have ffmpeg.exe (any folder, not necessarily in the search path). The following assumes that you have downloaded and unpacked the ffmpeg zip archive. If you prefer to convert a file using the right-click menu, you can try this VBScript: ConvertAndPlayInVLC_vbs.txt. Job done (at last!)Ĭlose the command prompt by closing the window as normal, or typing "exit". This takes " your_file.flv" as the input file and spits out " your_file.avi" as an avi file. You can find out the path (location) of a file by right clicking on the file and selecting properties.įfmpeg -i " your_file.flv" " your_file.avi"Īnd press enter. Where " somewhere" is the path to the folder where you saved your files, it's probably something like This opens a cool black box with white text.
Ubuntu users can type "sudo apt-get install ffmpeg" in terminal to install ffmpeg from repository.įfmpeg.exe is command-line based, so to use it you need to open a command prompt. zip and copy ffmpeg.exe to your Windows directory (Windows folder), or somewhere else in your search path.
Pick the file ffmpeg-SVN-r6708-static-gpl-win32.zip (about 5MB)Įxtract the files from the. Precompiled windows binaries are avaliable at: avi, as you can read in the forum this funcionality is not yet fixed. 1.3 Automating Conversion with VBScript.