[vlc] Re: Multicast stream between Linux Server and W2K Clients

[Bill Eldridge]

Look through the archives for a discussion
I had on this last week, where I had to
set up routing and ipforwarding on RedHat with
a multicast-enabled kernel.

Lee W wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Firstly I would like to say that so far I think VideoLan is a great 
> program and hope that it carries on getting better & better.
>
> However, after sucessfully getting a DVD Unicast streams to work, I am 
> unable to get the save DVD working as Multicast.
>
> I am using Red Hat 8.0 (VLS-0.5.0) as the server, which appears to be 
> working fine (the DVD drive is being read and no errors in the log), 
> however nothing is ever seen on the client-side (Windows 2000 + 
> VLC-0.5.2)
>
> I think the appopriate section from the vls.cfg is as follows:-
>
> BEGIN "multicast"
>   Domain  = "Inet4"
>   Type    = "multicast"
>   TTL     = "2"
>   DstHost = "239.2.20.42" (Tried changing this IP to something else)
>   DstPort = "1234"
> END
>
> I have tried SFTW and RTM to no avail.  And have also checked that my 
> NIC supports multicast (D-Link DFE-530TX on both machines), the 
> ifconfig output shows it as enabled.
>
> Has anyone come across this problem before and could possibly point me 
> in the right direction.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
>
> Lee
>


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