[vlc] Re: mozilla plugin

Sun Sep 4 23:12:33 CEST 2005

Marcelo Manzato wrote:

Perhaps you can describe you set up a bit more.
Are you receiving on the same subnet as you are broadcasting?
What operating systems are you using on each of the machines
Are you connecting using http on port 1234 rather than rtsp?

>Hi, thanks for your help, but it still does not work!
>I have disable all firewalls (from the streamer and
>client) as you said, but I still get the black box. 
>
>The strange thing is that I can access the same sdp
>file using the vlc application directly... 
>
>
>--- Keir Vaughan-Taylor <keirvt at optusnet.com.au>
>escreveu:
>
>  
>
>>I recently got this to work but there was some
>>faffing about.
>>The setup I used may help your situation at least to
>>get your setup 
>>going and then you can try changing things to be
>>what you want. If the 
>>Mozilla/Firfox plugin show the extension is enabled
>>then this is 
>>probably okay. No offence if some of this is obvious
>>to you.
>>
>>In my case I was "broadcasting" from a Windows
>>machine and used a GUI to 
>>set parameters.  I  used http protocol and set the
>>port to be 1234.
>>
>>The html script then looks like'
>>/*****************************
>><body>
>><h1> My Sites Heading</h1>
>><h2> VLC Mozilla video streaming </h2>
>><embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin"
>>             name="video1"
>>             autoplay="no" loop="yes" width="400"
>>height="300"
>>             target="http://192.168.43.103:1234" />
>><br/>
>>    <a href="javascript:;"
>>onclick='document.video1.play()'>Play video1</a>
>>    <a href="javascript:;"
>>onclick='document.video1.pause()'>Pause 
>>video1</a>
>>    <a href="javascript:;"
>>onclick='document.video1.stop()'>Stop video1</a>
>>    <a href="javascript:;" 
>>
>>    
>>
>onclick='document.video1.fullscreen()'>Fullscreen</a>
>  
>
>></body>
>></html>
>>*******************************/
>>
>>Where the IP number is the number of my Windows
>>"broadcasting" machine
>>
>>If you are behind a firewall you will have to make a
>>firewall entry that 
>>forwards port 1234 to your "broadcaster"
>>
>>Also make sure the transcoding box is checked. If
>>"play locally" is 
>>checked, then you can see that your capture card or
>>whatever is 
>>operation correctly at the broadcast end.
>>
>>On the Unix machine the command telnet 192.168.1.103
>>1234 will tell you 
>>if you can connect  or being denied access for some
>>reason. Check your 
>>firewall on your "receiving" machine is turned off.
>>Window machines have 
>>started turning firewall on by default and Linux
>>distributions now can 
>>complicate life with SELinux security. Make sure
>>this is turned off.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>etc
>>
>
>  
>

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