LAN Broadcasting with DVBDream and VLC :A) Broadcasting on an entire network with a router:1/ In DD on Server computer:- Go to Preferences - LAN Streaming
- In Client field enter the broadcasting IP address of your network
Here the IP address mask for the network is 192.168.100.xxx and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 so i've entered the default broadcasting address for this network = 192.168.100.255
At this time, you can leave other default settings. But do not forget to check the "Active" checkbox before clicking on "OK" button in order to activate the LAN streaming (some lights should flash on your router and/or your switch when it's activated)
2/ In VLC on Clients computers:- Click on File - Open Network Stream (or CTRL+N)
- Select UDP/RTP and leave port at 1234 (except if you have changed it in DD)
- Click on OK, stream should be received on the client
- You can open the "Stream and Media Info" window (CTRL+I) to gets info about the stream
(The selecting channel was ARTE on Astra 19.2°E)
This has been tested on a LAN 100Mbps network with both nVidia PureVideo and Cyberlink PDVD7 codecs and several network devices:
- Netgear DG834G with and without Netgear FS116 switch
- Zyxel Zywall 10W with the sameFS116 switch
- Thomson-Alcatel SpeedTouch 510V4 with the same FS116 switch
Next step:
- testing broadcasting on a Wireless network with the DG834G (WiFi 54Mbps)
- testing broadcasting on LAN 100Mbps network with a Freebox (Free.fr ADSL connection box) in router mode (without FreePlayer)
B) Broadcasting between two computers (server and client):- The only setting you have to change in DD is the IP address of the client (it must be the real IP address of the client PC)
NB : It could be useful to decrease the buffer size in DDUSING COMMAND-LINES TO START VLC ON DD BROADCASTINGHere is an extract of VLC how-to which describes the use of windows command-line to start VLC on a received streaming :Quote:
Receiving a network stream
To receive an unicast UDP stream (sent by VLS or VLC's stream output), start VLC with:
% vlc udp:[@:server_port]
If you use the default port (1234), vlc udp: will do. For more information, look at the Streaming Howto
To receive an multicast UDP stream (sent by VLS or VLC's stream output), start VLC with:
% vlc udp:@multicast_address[:server_port]
NB : % vlc means the full path to VLC executable file (ex. : c:\program files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe)
NB : Those command-lines can be used with both Windows or Linux version of VLC.
Those commands can be combined with other VLC commands (such as fullscreen mode)Example : to start VLC on DD broadcasting in fullscreen mode
Code:
c:\program files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe -f udp:
(in this example "1234" is the port in use, so as it is the default streaming port for VLC, there is no need to notify it in command-line parameters / "-f" means fullscreen mode)
To be continued...
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Thanks for this info!