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{{Project
| what=Stream your desktop to XBMC
| tagline=Stare while you stare
| from=29 September, 2013
| maintainers=Tom
}}

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== What? ==
Find the best option to stream your computer screen to the remote XBMC screens.

== Current state ==
Currently I found the best option is to use VLC. 
With VLC we create a stream of your screen, which you open on the XBMC instance.

== Terminal stream ==

  vlc -vvv screen:// --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mpgv}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst=:1234}'

== Complete Bash Script ==

This is a complete bash script that will launch VLC, wait 3 seconds and asks XBMC to open that stream via the XBMC API.
Give the xbmc url as command argument.

Example: 
  ./stream.sh xbmc-groundfloor

Paste following script in stream.sh, make it executable, and execute.

  #!/bin/bash
  # USAGE: ./stream.sh xbmc-groundfloor
  url=http://$HOSTNAME:1234
  if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
    VLC_PATH=/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
  else
    VLC_PATH= which vlc
  fi
  if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
    echo -n "Insert XBMC URL: "
    read XBMC_HOST
  else
   XBMC_HOST="$1"
  fi
  ($VLC_PATH screen:// --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mpgv}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst=:1234}') &
  sleep 3
  payload='{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": { "item": { "file": "'${url}'" }}, "id": 1 }'
  curl -v -u xbmc:password -d "$payload" -H "Content-type:application/json" -X POST "${XBMC_HOST}/jsonrpc"

== Research material ==
* http://www.videolan.org/doc/vlc-user-guide/en/ch04.html