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Use yt-dlp --get-url. It will return a URL that VLC will play.

Use yt-dlp --get-url. It will return a URL that VLC will play.

Okay, interesting. The URL you have actually downloads an EXTM3U playlist file. It has entries for two versions of the video at different qualitites. #EXTM3U #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Italian (forced)",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="au...

Media > Convert/Save
Network tab
Paste in your URL
At the bottom, select Convert
Enter filename and Save

Out of curiosity, what is the URL? VLC is not designed to be a downloader, as the other comment says. Something like yt-dlp may handle your case better.

Yes, I got it.
The evening is just starting here.
I'm glad we got something working.

Client should be dead simple, I can do that right now:

That's working
Do we need to go back to the full string ?

If it's working then it's working!
The shorter the string, the better. Fewer things to clog up the pipe.
If you're not using audio or subtitles, then you don't need the other stuff.

I really wish someone else would chime in on this thread.

Not your fault Dinosaur, I'm not at all an expert myself, and not a very good teacher, either.

But why is there no one else pointing out the obvious things?

Oh wait I think it has to do with quoting. The shell is trying to parse the curly brackets before passing it to VLC.

Here we go again:

Do you get the same error using vlc instead of cvlc?
Ty adding --no-sout-all on the end. I didn't think it was needed but maybe it is in your case.
Paste again the full command line you're using.

Does this have any audio? If not, try this:

I don't know where that came from. It's supposedly for subtitles. Just remove it.

Oh I didn't make it clear enough. The double hyphen is only at the start of the option, to introduce it. Colons inside options stay as they are. The one before "rtp" should stay because it's part of the sout. cvlc -vvv v4l2:///dev/video0 --sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=800,acodec=mpga,ab=...

For CLI, the basic syntax is: vlc [input_source] --sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=800,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100,scodec=none}:rtp{dst=192.168.0.255,port=5004,mux=ts,sap,name=Test} Your sout options are exactly what you see in the output string when setting up a stream in the GUI,...

SUCCESS Nice. I have to quit VLC and restart it to get it to work again. I can't explain that. It may be a bug, or VLC is doing something odd with its playlist. It's a different topic. So, almighty teacher, where do we go from here ? You chose to broadcast the stream, and it seems to work! Finally ...

According to your instruction, both PC's now have the same IP address. What do you mean by this? Do not change the IP address of the machine itself. We are talking about VLC settings only. Same result using broadcast rtp://192.168.0.255/Test (if that is correct format) Possibly. You can run "i...

When streaming RTP, the IP address you enter is the destination , so you have to adjust it when you involve the second PC. (Note that if you're going to stream to multiple machines as you intend, you'll either need to duplicate the stream for each one, or stream to a broadcast IP. Anyway, that can b...

I hope you don't give up. First, guiding through the UI can get cumbersome and easy to miss steps while trying to reproduce. Consider using the command-line for consistency? Assume the two PCs have IPs of 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 On PC1, choose Media > Stream > select your capture device > Stream...

That string doesn't actually send the video anywhere other than the local display. Did you click the "add" button when selecting the destination? For the basic test, select RTP/Basic Transport stream, click "Add", then fill in your local IP address and pick a name for the stream....

No, we're talking current version. I just can't get HTTP streaming to work, so I'm suggesting RTP instead.

I just tried something like this myself and HTTP just doesn't work for me. I have no idea why. I've always used RTP on my own LAN and it always seemed to work fine, so I never bothered with HTTP. Looks like that was the right call because I have no clue why this doesn't work: vlc -vvv '/home/mercury...

We need a lot more details. What commands are you using? How are you setting up the stream? Although it sounds a little weird, try playing the network stream on the same PC as you're streaming from. I.e. set up the originating stream on PC1, then still on PC1 open a new VLC instance and try to play ...

If I simply run 3 copies of vlc with the first streaming and then the other two "Open Network Stream" with those IP's will that work ? Yes, this sounds correct. On each PC, one VLC instance is capturing from USB and broadcasting. Additional VLC instances are playing the network streams wh...

at the moment I am using VLC to display a picture and then X11VNC to broadcast it to 2 other pc's. Yeah, and this is unnecessarily complicated. Just broadcast directly from VLC. Is there a specific problem you're encountering, or do you just want a general guide to set up VLC for streaming? Based o...

So this is about HDMI input streaming, not screen capture?

Or are you doing the crazy thing of viewing the 3 video feeds on the local PC and then trying to stream the desktop capture from that PC?