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Yeah... I actually meant that cant one use VLM for commercial purposes unless one pays royalties for the codecs used... More information about this can be found on http://www.mpegla.com/ I will try reading up on this and post the relevant information here. In the meanwhile, can someone can clarify w...

So the gist is you cant use VLM for commercial use? Really?

Thanks for explaining about the port query.

Well I tried launching the VLM using Ctrl+W. Was able to accomplish what I wanted to - multiple files being streamed on my PC could be accessed from other devices at the same time over the port 8554 . A big thanks to you for that Mr. Mundu! Appreciate your responses to my amateurish queries and doub...

All right. I'll give these a shot. Coming to VLM, it is basically VideoLan Manager and I can control multiple streams with only one instance of VLC. So while searching google trying to get a sense of it, some ad about Wowza Media Server popped up and also a lot of blog posts seem to be mentioning it...

Thanks for your reply...
So in summary, opening several instances of VLC is just not an option.
The 2 possible options are:
1. Using the Telnet Server
OR
2. Using VLM Conf

Both these are quite new to me anyway. Could you point to any resources where I can read up on this?

Thanks in advance!

I am just getting started with VLC and am a complete newbie. So there are many fundamentals that I am unaware of, please excuse that. What am I using? I am using VLC media player 2.0.5 Twoflower In that, I am using the GUI for streaming files because I simply have zero knowledge of programming. Wha...