Using VLC to host a stream of an infinite video loop

Question

I want to offer a video stream from my pc with a VLC player trough a WIFI network to smartphones for regression testing. The video should automatically restart at the beginning

Answer 1

you need to use --sout-keep which keeps the stream output open (disabled by default)

and use gather:std and transcode option if the files use different encoding so that there wouldn't be any noticeable interruption on input change.

see:

1: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Command_Line_Examples/#Keeping_the_stream_open

2: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/gather/