[vlc] Re: Windows version: can't connect to UDP/RTP streams

[Paul Rae]

Does it work when you disable your firewall? I suspect this is bloking
the requests

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matteo Santagata [mailto:m.santagata at tiscali.it]
> Sent: 24 March 2003 08:55
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc] Windows version: can't connect to UDP/RTP streams
> 
> 
> Hello everybody, I hope you can help me.
> 
> I'm experiencing a problem on the Windows version of VLC.
> If I play a local file I have no problem, but I can't connect 
> to multicast
> servers.
> 
> I choose UDP/RTC Multicast, I specify the IP and the port (I 
> am sure they
> are correct), but nothing happens: the video window doesn't 
> appear and audio
> is mute!!
> It doesn't even try to connect to the network, since my 
> software firewall
> receives no requests outgoing from VLC.
> The only thing that I noticed is that the network source 
> appears correctly
> in the playlist.
> 
> If I go back to the "Net" button and I re-insert the same 
> data, the video is
> still invisible and audio still mute, but the line
> 
> udp:@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:YYYYY  Channel: (Channel selector) (GO! button)
> (Where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the IP address and YYYYY is the port).
> 
> appears in the main program window.
> 
> What can it be?
> Am I doing something wrong?
> I don't have changed any Preference, my network hardware 
> works correctly
> with all other applications....
> 
> Here's a dump of the output in "Messages" window:
> 
> adding playlist item « udp:@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:YYYYY »
> channels initialized
> creating new input thread
> playlist item `udp:@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:YYYYY'
> waiting for thread completion
> access `udp', demux `', name `@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:YYYYY'
> looking for access module
> probing 1 candidate
> opening server=:0 local=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:YYYYY
> looking for network module
> probing 2 candidates
> thread 2064 (input) created at priority 15 (src/input/input.c:157)
> using network module "ipv4"
> unlocking module "ipv4"
> using access module "access_udp"
> 
> (XXX.XXX... is the IP and YYYYY the port)
> 
> Here's my configuration:
> 
> OS: Windows XP SP1 (It was Win2000 until February, but I had the same
> problem)
> CPU: P-IV 2,53Ghz
> MoBo: Epox 4SDA5+, with onboard ethernet interface (SiS chipset)
> Video: Sapphire ATI Radeon 9000
> Audio: SB Audigy 2
> 
> 
> NOTE:
> On the same PC I have also installed SuSE 8.1 distribution of 
> linux (on a
> different HD partition, of course...;-). There I have 
> compiled and installed
> VLC with no problem, and that's what I use when I want to see 
> that video
> stream.... but I'd really like to use Windows version too!!
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion, and congratulations for 
> your work: VLC
> is a very good software.
> 
> Matteo
> 
> 
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