I have been using Serviio successfully for some time to send videos and photos via Ethernet from my PC to my TV. I'd now like to stream also my desktop but, since I can't get this to work, I'd appreciate some advice, please! Here's my situation:
- Serviio version is 0.6.1
- In Serviio console under Library, Online sources, Source type is set to Live Stream, Source URL is entered as
http://192.168.2.105:8081, Display name as PC Desktop and the Video radio button selected. These entries/settings were done with the stream running.
- In the Serviio console under Transcoding, Enable transcoding is unchecked (I've also tried leaving it checked without improvement)
- In the Serviio console under Presentation, Video, Online category is set to Display category. On the TV, the PC Desktop folder is displayed, but the screen remains blank and no sound is heard.
- PC is newish and runs Win7 32bit using an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE (6x 3.2GHz) processor with 4GB of Corsair XMS3 Dominator DDR3-1600 CL7 RAM. When I'm trying to stream as described below, the CPU runs at about 30% overall with all 6 cores in operation. The monitor resolution is 1920 x 1200.
- TV is Panasonic TX-L37GW20
- VLC version is 1.1.11
- My StreamDesktop.bat is based on the info at
http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=stream_pc and contains the following:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vvv dshow:// --sout=#transcode{venc=ffmpeg,vcodec=mp2v,vb=10000,fps=24,scale=0.5,width=1920,acodec=mpga,ab=192,channels=2,samplerate=44100,soverlay}:std{access=http,mux=ts,dst=:8081} --no-sout-rtp-sap --no-sout-standard-sap --ttl=1 --sout-keep :dshow-vdev=screen-capture-recorder :dshow-adev=virtual-audio-capturer :dshow-caching=2000
- With VLC running as called by StreamDesktop.bat, I can see my desktop in a second instance of VLC set to play the network stream
http://@localhost:8081- Serviio log: