[vlc] Re: vlc streaming howto?

[Mark Moriarty]

Hopefully one of the Linux jocks will step in, since I am a Windows person.
I may be missing some minutia, that Linux wants a different command-line
syntax.

The first step is to get the video from PC1 to PC2 successfully.  On PC2,
are you able to run
Vlc udp://@:5010
That should open a local VLC window on PC2, displaying the incoming stream
from PC1.

If it does come in OK, you should then be able to set up the rebroadcast at
PC2.

Vlc udp://@:5010
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=256,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,m
ux=asfh,url=:5012}}

At that point, a PC3 running WMP should be able to do an Open URL, use:  
mms://pc2_IP_address:5012

The above works well with WMP9 and 10.  There was a patch a little while ago
to make it work with WMP all the way down to WMP6, I believe.  One "gotcha",
on WMP, is that you might have to specifically enable WMP to use TCP; that
is done by selecting Tools -- Options, the Network tab, make sure TCP is
checked.

On PC2, you might want to try changing the output stream to port 1234.  No
reason other than that it is what I've been using. (url=:1234)

Note that I have a space between the first "udp" section and the ":sout"

What kind of messages are you seeing in the console window on PC2?  If it
contains something like "decoded 152/152" messages, that's a good thing,
means it is receiving the transmission from PC1.  If you are seeing a lot of
messages starting with "Warning" or "Error" that's important, VLC is trying
to let you know what's causing a problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of
Ricardo Kleemann
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 12:49 PM
To: vlc at videolan.org
Subject: [vlc] Re: vlc streaming howto?

Hi again, Mark.

First, thanks again for all your help, it's really been great for me to
understand VLC better.

So on the server side (linux, for rebroadcasting) I ran this command:

vlc
udp://@:5010:sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=256,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=std{a
ccess=mmsh,mux=asfh,url=:5012}}

On the original broadcast side ("PC1"), I sent a stream to the server's IP
at port 5010, and on the server side I ran the command above. Please note
that the server was not running X, it's text only. Once I began
broadcasting, the server started spitting out all sorts of stuff onto the
terminal... and also when I tried to access port 5012 on the server with
WMP, it said the server wasn't responding.

What am I doing wrong? :-)

Thanks
Ricardo

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