how to play files over LAN

[Henri Fallon]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, jeevo milkha singh wrote:
> The problem is that when I try to do so , the client (vlc) says :
> NetworkOpen:can't connect socket

The syntax is a bit strange, and it may be the reason : 

Before 0.2.73 : 

vlc --input ts server.somedomain.com

0.2.73 and after :

vlc ts://server[:port] the default port being 1234

If you're using broadcast, it only works from 0.2.73 with a strange
syntax :

vlc --broadcast broadcast_addr ts://server[:port]

and will soon be changed to : 

vlc ts://server[:port][::broadcast_addr] or something like that.

-- 
henri