I'm streaming a video from vlc to icecast, and that works successfully. I'm even able to put a link on my web site. The problem comes with the video
ends. VLC dies without an error. If I try to repeat, same problem. I can't seem to stream more than one video either, so I turned 38 eps into one long video (15+hrs), but the stream always dies when it ends. I'm using Vetinari
w/ win10Pro64. Any other suggestions? I'm willing to use Linux as a
solution, if it's not to difficult. I've got a Debian 11 VM right now not doing much other than allowing my BBS to have SSH.

Thanks!

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I'm streaming a video from vlc to icecast

You definitely could find an easier solution with linux, I think Icecast even has their own client called "ezstream".

If you can get one video to play, have you tried making a batch file?
Make a for loop go through the directory listing of video files and run VLC with each one. Then nest that in a neverending while or whatever.
Examples for these are searchable, as I've needed them before for Windows syntax too.

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I'm streaming a video from vlc to icecast

You definitely could find an easier solution with linux, I think Icecast even has their own client called "ezstream".

If you can get one video to play, have you tried making a batch file?
Make a for loop go through the directory listing of video files and run VLC with each one. Then nest that in a neverending while or whatever. Examples for these are searchable, as I've needed them before for Windows syntax too.

The video has to be streamed from within vlc, even a playlist with commands won't do it. I had thought about doing that, but thanks for the idea! I haven't found a way to automate this. Ok, I'll look at ezstream.

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I'm streaming a video from vlc to icecast

You definitely could find an easier solution with linux, I think

Icecast

even has their own client called "ezstream".

If you can get one video to play, have you tried making a batch file? Make a for loop go through the directory listing of video files and

run

VLC with each one. Then nest that in a neverending while or whatever. Examples for these are searchable, as I've needed them before for

Windows

syntax too.

The video has to be streamed from within vlc, even a playlist with commands won't do it. I had thought about doing that, but thanks
for the idea! I haven't found a way to automate this. Ok, I'll look
at ezstream.

ezstream (in the icecast download page) got me running! It turns out that
the VLC .ogg converter is broken. I had to use videoproc (which I already owned for other purposes) and converted my files to .ogv, which ezstream handles quite well. It took a bit to get everything configured properly, but the man page and the examples helped greatly.

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