[streaming] Re: streaming through a router

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Fri, May 06, 2005, Chien-Yu Chen wrote :
> Hi!
>    
>   I am trying to set up a videolan server behind a router, and here is my
> question
> 
>   vlc --ttl 12 -vvv --color -I telnet --rtsp-host localhost:5554
> this will create a serve instance on localhost 5554 
> 

Well, this will only bind you server on the localhost interface, no
other one, so you box will never answer to requests coming from the
outside. 

Try 69.213.191.216:5554 or :5554 (to bind on all interfaces)

> now if I tried to connect from outside my box, ie, connect to the router
> (which has port 5554 forwarded to my machine), then I get connection refused.
> 
> If I use
> vlc --ttl 12 -vvv --color -I telnet --rtsp-host routerIP:5554
> 
> then when I tried to add a stream to videolan, I got
> 
> [00000253] main private error: cannot bind socket
> [00000253] vod_rtsp private error: cannot create http server
> +(69.213.191.216:5554)
> [00000251] main vlm error: cannot find vod server
> 
> and of course I can't create a http server since I can't bind to 69.213.191.216
> (the real IP)...
> 
> anyone knows a solution?  thanks
> 
> chen
> 
-- 
BigBen

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