[vlc] Re: Using VLC as a multicast client

[Måns Rullgård]

Guschti <llx at gmx.net> writes:

>>>I am writing an application which just sends MPEG-1 video to a
>>>multicast address using simple
>>>UDP calls. VLC is on the client side.
>>>
>>>When I first start VLC and then my server. About 1/4 of the upper part
>>>of the video is displayed correct the other part displays strange geen
>>>and other colors, but just for a few seconds  then it crashs.
>>>
>>
>>Are you sending the data at the right speed.  VLC is very sensitive to
>>that.
>>
>>
> I am sending the data the same way as I did when using http, I just
> changed the send()to a sendto() to send to a multicast address
> instead of a 'normal' address. It is a while loop and whenever the
> encoder card has a packet it is immediatly sended. Which is 25 times a
> second. I can see this when adding a printout which prints the time
> each time send() is called.
>
> Is there another free video player which supports udp multicast?
> It would be useful to see if the trouble is on my side.

TCVP does, but it's sort of tricky to compile and configure, if don't
know the magic.

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Måns Rullgård
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