Lan Streaming

[DeathGhost]

Hey

First im thankful to all Betatesters and Developers
This option is really great !

I have some problem....
I activated this fuction but i can't see it on videolan, i put the port and choose udp stream and it didn't open.

it has some special syntax ?

Thanks in advance.

[rel]

I've just tested on my PC (local)

1) VLC->file->Open Network Stream->UDP/RTP (other settings not touched) -> Ok
2) then activate the LAN streaming in DD.


* make sure the port numbers are the same and any firewall doen't block DD and VLC

[FredB]

Tested OK (during beta-tests) on network with router, using broadcasting default IP (xxx.xxx.xxx.255) !!!

[freewind]

@FredB:
Pls tell me your settings on vlc:
serverIP: 192.168.178.20 port forwarding at port 37000-1
clientIP: 192.168.178.22
router: 192.168.178.1
vlc 0.8.5
Thank you

[tryit]

I have gotten it to work sporadically, was getting mtu size errors in vlc, so I used a command line option to increase and it the error message went away, but still only works sporadically. I can watch the network activity, vlc counts the packets arriving, but - no display. Still playing 192.168.1.5 ->192.168.1.2

[mwilder]

Anybody have a streaming for dummies tutorial? I just can't seem to get this to work, I don't really know the basics of how to configure this.
Any help is appreciated.
I think you wil see this kind of question often, now that the feature has been added.
Network settings;
host=192.168.0.6
client=192.168.0.5
router=192.168.0.1
firewall off (windows)
VLC media player on the client machine
streaming enabled on DD, pointed at 192.168.0.5 port 1234

[Philou5]

LAN streaming with Windows Media Player - it's possible ?

[Dreamer]

I don't think so, even if I use it just few days, it works good with VLC.

I have few questions too:

1. Picture is lost when I switch a channel, is it a bug, or some options have to be changed in VLC?

2. Is it possible to broadcast more than one channel, or even switch channels from the same TP? If not, I'll start a suggestion, but I'm not sure how it could work. It would be useful for DVB-T cards with just one/few TPs/frequencies.

Thanks.

[mwilder]

O.K. , I've discovered the source of my streaming problem, I am posting here for the benefit of others.
It seems that some video codecs just will not stream. I was using intervideo, which works well for the T.V. output, but will not stream! A quick change to video renderer 9 fixed the problem. I wish I would've tried that 2 days ago!

[FredB]

@FredB:
Pls tell me your settings on vlc:
serverIP: 192.168.178.20 port forwarding at port 37000-1
clientIP: 192.168.178.22
router: 192.168.178.1
vlc 0.8.5
Thank you

I'm late!!!

I'll try to make a short tutorial this week-end.

[Dreamer]

Simple question, can I use some command line in VLC to open DD network stream? I mean that I would create the shortcut to desktop and it would automatically start VLC and play video from DD. Thanks.

[pvdeejay]

yep; you can pass client url to VLC as cmd line parameter.
for example

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c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe udp://@192.168.1.255

and it should open automatically. you can try passing it --help instead this and it will create a file vlc.txt with commandline parameters reference. you can even start it in full screen.

[Dreamer]

Thanks pvdeejay.

It works also like this:

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D:\Programs\VLC\vlc.exe udp://@:1234

FredB, perhaps you could add it here - it's very simple, everyone can create shortcut to desktop and add " udp://@:1234" next to vlc.exe, so it might be useful.

[FredB]

FredB, perhaps you could add it here - it's very simple, everyone can create shortcut to desktop and add " udp://@:1234" next to vlc.exe, so it might be useful.

Yes, I'll add it... I should have already added it as I already use command-lines to start VLC on DD broadcasting

Edit FredB : Added

NB : As you can see on the other topic, if the port used for netstreaming is the default VLC netstreaming port (ie : "1234") there is no need to notify it in the command-line parameters.

If I find enough free time, I'll try to create a little executable file to assist users in creating such command-lines.

[Dreamer]

Thanks FredB.