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I was able to get into the VLC command area on my PC, but was unable to get it to play RTMP streams. I am told you need to run the program RTMTdump. There are tons of lines of code in there you have to write into command interface and I wouldn't know the first way to get it done. Also, my ultimate g...

I added the Telnet through the VLC menu, but I can't access any sort of command interface. I went to START/RUN on my PC and entered CMD and then the telnet localhost 4212 and it says "telnet is not recognized as an internal or external command." I am sure I'm not doing this right. I can't ...

Sorry...I don't see it. I have spent hours looking for it.

Basically, it says to ADD INTERFACE and go TELNET. Nothing happens. I see no way of accessing the interface. I tried the CMD from my computer and it doesn't work either.

Ready to give up at this point.

First of all, I have to say that I am not very tech-savvy. I am trying to get VLC to play a webstream embedded on a webpage and I have tried copying and pasting the http URL into VLC and it doesn't work. Right-clicking the webstream doesn't give me a URL at all. When the stream was over, the box whe...