MPlayer is faster than VLC because it is Command Line

I don't want to use VLC in my server, because I have no X

Grrr....

VLC modules.

VLC has a totally modular architecture and even interfaces are modules!

Use -I or --intf to select an interface.

  • VLC without any GUI but with interaction? Use

vlc -Irc

  • VLC without any GUI and interaction? Use

vlc -Idummy

  • VLC for real geeks? Use

vlc -Incurse

Streaming server.

You are using it as a streamer server, use vlc -Itelnet or vlc -Ihttp

You don't want to install too many dependencies, then install vlc-nox and not vlc.