[vlc] Re: Question of running vlc (Win32 ver) on system with multiple NIC

[Gildas Bazin]

On Thursday 27 February 2003 19:11, Quang Phan wrote:
> I am running vlc (WIn32 version) on a system with 2 NIC's. How do I tell 
vlc which NIC card to use? Does something like this would work?
> 
> 1) To let vlc plays video streaming on NIC#1 (ip = 192.168.192.2)
> from command line type: 
> vlc udp:@192.168.192.2:1234
> 
> 1) To let vlc plays video streaming on NIC#2 (ip = 192.168.195.110)
> from command line type: 
> vlc udp:@192.168.195.110:1234
> 
> Note that the vls server unicast video on UPD port 1234.
> 

If you are trying to play a unicast stream, then you don't need to indicate 
vlc which card to use. VLC will just listen on both cards, so should work 
perfectly well just by typing "vlc udp:"

The syntax you are using above tells vlc to connect to the multicast stream 
at address 192.168.192.x. This address isn't a multicast address so vlc 
will give an error.

Now if you want to play a multicast stream, on windows you need to tell vlc 
which card to use (when you have several). You can do so by using the 
option "--iface-address ip_address_nic"

Hope this helps,

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Gildas
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