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Check the first note: http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html Thanks for the tip. I guess I should have read the entire documentation from front to back, instead of simply jumping to the section on streaming. When you enter vlc --help from the command line, the vlc-help.txt file shows t...

It seems the problem was that the command-line syntax is different for Windows than it is with Linux. Taking a hint from the Transcoding page on the Wiki, I changed: vlc -vvv input-stream --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=:8080}' to: vlc -vvv input-stream --sout=#standard{access=http,mux=ts,d...

Transcoding is required for streaming as VLC likes to have control of the stream. Okay, I'll give your suggestions regarding transcoding a try -- but I'm a bit curious why the command line given in the official documentation works perfectly under Linux but not under Windows. Hint: MPEG 2 in a OGG c...

I'm trying to stream a video file (MPEG-2) from a Windows PVR. The command-line example provided in the documentation : vlc -vvv input_stream --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst= server.example.org :8080}' works fine under Linux; however, on the Windows machine, using the exact same video file...