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Thank you, Chubinou, for your response

I'd like to know how do I receive a live stream signal onto a vlc media player. Do I have to point the player to the /encoder? Do I set the vlc as the destination from the encoder? Or both? Do I use rtsp from the player and rtmp from the encoder to point to each, source and outlet? Also does the vlc...

Thanks for responding, Remi. I'm a newbie to streaming and have a lot to learn. When I've streamed before I was limited to audience size due to costs. The service I used provided the server/transcoder and embedded player. The more viewers I had the more I spent. In essence I'm looking for a low cost...

How many unique viewers are allowed to watch the VideoLan media player embedded on my site?