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I went into the Windows Media Services application directly and tracked down one of the streams that I am hoping to view with VLC. I have the IP address and port number but when I type them into the multicast udp spot on VLC, it doesn't seem to want to work. It is possible that a different Media ser...

Is your network multicast-enabled? You can try to install wireshark on your computer, and make a network capture of what's happening between windows media player and windows media server. If you see igmp packets and then a huge amount of udp packets, you can try to open the multicast address of the...

multicast http is not employed in your case (actually, I think multicast http does not exist), windows media player downloads a descriptor file (.nsc) via http. This files contains encrypted multicast ip address and media port. And then it sends IGMP messages to join the multicast group where the m...

I access it from an address on my local intranet. Streams are formatted as http://myintranet/example.nsc. I'm using Windows Media Services to broadcast this from a Windows 2003 server. My eventual goal of using VLC is to embed it into a website available from within my intranet for easy access. Usin...

I forgot to mention that it's an http multicast stream.

Is it possible to use VLC to receive multicast streams? I have a project that I am interested in using this player with but unless I won't be able to if I can't figure out how to use it for this purpose (if it's even possible). VLC would be a great choice for this project because it works on Windows...