Video-Streaming-Server

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:04, Guy Fraser wrote:

> One thing I haven't seemed to figure out yet is when setting 
> up "channels" on VLC it asks for the destination IP address.
> Maybe I am just confused but I am used to having the client 
> connect to the server to get things, rather than as it would 
> seem the server must push the content to the client. Am I 
> brain dead or is that what it is doing.

Remember VLC is a client with a little bit of serving capability
glued on.  It really just 'plays' a stream and as a side effect
it can send it over the network at the same time.  A likely
scenario would be to use UDP output and give it a multicast
group address and let it start streaming.  Then any number of
other VLC programs can be started on the same LAN (routing is
possible but takes some setup) and when they are set to use
multicast/udp with the same address/port they will display
the stream.  There are other ways to do it, but then vlc might
not be the best thing to use as the server.

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  Les Mikesell
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