[vlc-devel] Re: VLC-NAT

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Ramakrishnan_S wrote:
> Thanks for your time for reading this mail.
> 
> I would like to know how to enable VLC for NAT traversal? Is there NAT
> traversal support such as STUN or ICE is already available?
> 
> Requirement is as follows:
> I want to send video/audio to one or multiple VLC instances. We do not
> want to use relay server in between. Each VLC instance resides behind a
> separate NAT.
> 
> Is there any open source ICE implementation library?
> 
> What is the best streaming method in this case? i.e HTTP/UDP/RTP/MMSH or

Depends on which network you traverse. HTTP is a good solution for the 
client behind a NAT, just as RTSP over TCP/HTTP is.

> RTPS?

VLC cannot do RTSP to clients behind a NAT atm. If that is what you 
require then you probably can better use OpenRTSP server from live555 
with vlc as client.


Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman

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