[vlc] Re: http question

Gildas Bazin gbazin at netcourrier.com
Fri May 2 19:11:32 CEST 2003


On Tuesday 29 April 2003 03:17, Mildred L. Frisco wrote:
> I have some question about vlan.  It uses http as an option, right? 
>  When it specifies http, how is the media streamed on the network?  Is 
> rtp not used then?  If it's also http being used for streaming, will the 
> media packets ride on tcp?  I was thinking http being used for setup and 
> control and then rtp for transmission.
> Thanks.
> 
>

When you stream in http with vlc, vlc will behave exactly like an HTTP 
server and the stream will be sent using the HTTP protocol and thus over 
TCP (but it will be sent live).

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