Easy Question (I hope)

[dreamcox53]

Please forgive me and I “think” I know the answer to the question but before I start the install of VLC Shares I wanted to ensure I was clear .

I have WiiMC installed and I first wanted to say how lucky we all are that there are people willing to spend their time making these things possible for us little people 🙂 .

I have WiiMC set up to use my NAS and the main reason was lack of support from PlayOn TV to get NAS/SMB shares working properly . My question on VLC shares is this :

WiiMC uses it’s own set of codecs at this point to play the Videos I have now and if I install VLC shares properly , VLC will take control of the Video stream and play them to the Wii ?

Again , thanks goes out to all involved with WiiMC . I can now play my SMB music/vids/pics through my Wii . If I can get VLC shares working , I’m clicking on the Donate button . I will gladly pay you guys what I was going to pay playon yearly !

[zany130]

Yes. The idea was that vlc get the video stream and reencode it on the fly in a wiimc compatible way and stream it through http stream. Obviously the transcoding process is an heavy task to be done, so a good pc is required for 720p/1080p transcoding.

Anyway, i haven’t a donate button…

[dreamcox53]

I have installed and I think I have it set up correctly but how do I know it is actually working properly ? Is the icon supposed to go green on the EasyPHP icon in the tray ? I think I also set-up the NAS share properly (path etc.)

[zany130]

https://code.google.com/p/vlc-shares/wiki/InstallationWindows

[dreamcox53]

I’ve done the installation step by step as well as editing the .xml file on the SD card for Wiimc (inputting the IP address of the VLC share install) . I run the test to verify paths for VLC Shares and the test shows they are working (except the 2 optional) but in the debug log I see a “No VLC Instance” :

20/02/2011 20:43:45] [III] (X_Debug::init:35)

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[20/02/2011 20:43:45] [III] (X_Debug::init:36) Debug log enabled, level: 1
[20/02/2011 20:43:45] [FFF] (X_VlcShares_Plugins_RedirectControls::gen_beforePageBuild:43) No vlc instance

Should I also see some change within WiiMC to ensure it utilizes VLC for streaming ?

[dreamcox53]

Got it working…thanks for your ttime . I had to go into WiiMC and set “online media” path to VLC Shares folder then navigate to the folder of the file I wanted to play .

[zany130]

Ok. Remember to update to the last version.

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