[streaming] Re: Watching the WolrdCup at work behind a firewall

[Christophe Mutricy]

>  I regularly stream video from my PC at home (Haupage250/XP/udp) to myself 
> when I travel. Now that the world cup is in full swing I would like to 
> stream some of the games to myself while at work so that my colleagues and 
> myself do not have to repeatedly call in sick. However the firewall at work 
> does not let my udp packets through and my work PC is behind NAT. I'm 
> guessing there is someway to use TCP to get through this situation, but I 
> can't seem to figure out how VLC implements this. Can anyone help me get 
> through this firewall?

Using HTTP should do the trick, you'll need to configure your router to
forward the port to your PC. and then you can point your vlc @ work to
http://your_public.ip:port


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Xtophe

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