miface option doesn't work in VLC 2.0.x on Windows

[Titanic]

If I need Win x86 and x64 builds, best way to achive this is using Ubuntu and mingw-x64_beta3.0 I assume.

[mvelkavrh]

I agree with quite few things posted by r21514.

I have the same problem and i find it quite ignorant.

This was posted as a bug at before and dismissed. I've posted it again with the same result and without any helpful advice:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7707

The explanation stated in release notes is by no means useful, at least not for Windows user where there are no such things as eth0... I've tried with network adapter "names", IPs, numbers. Nothing.

It seem we'll have to stick to 1.1.11.

However, I would expect different attitude towards users. It doesn't seem very reasonable also and I didn't expect something like that.

I hope it will be addressed in the future and I wish all the best to VideoLAN an VLC, probably the best in its field.

Regards, Marko

[tttonyyy]

On Linux I tested it working as this: --miface="eth1" to use my second network card.

On Windows as observed above - it does nothing.

However there is a quick fix for Windows - under

Network Connections -> Local Area Connect 2 -> Properties -> Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) -> Properties -> Advanced

...there is an "Interface metric" box. Untick auto, and set your metric to 1 on the interface you want VLC to use, then go back out and do the same for the interface you don't want VLC to use, but set it to 2.

If you run wireshark you'll see that VLC's IGMP joins/leaves are sent on the interface with the lower metric and things should start working again