The VideoLAN Forums

Hi,

I am trying to view an MPEG-4 multicast on my office network (corp webcast services)

The service is up and running fine, I can view it with an IE browser that has an activex that sets up the viewing stream.

I try to use VLC to view and nothing happens. I then used Ethereal to sniff my workstation's NIC and do not see the necessary IGMP join.

For kicks, I started a viewing session with the browser/activex, verified that I saw the streaming data on the multicast address and port that I tried in VLC. I tried getting VLC to consume the data, knowing that the multicast was being delivered to my segment but still nothing.

Client is VLC 0.8.5 , Win XP Pro SP2.

Anything else I can try?

Thanks,
Kevin

@kgilchrist

I've got the same Problem as you
With a older Notebook SP1 WIN XP and vlc0.8.5 it runs prober.

SP Problem ?

Windows XP firewall is dumping incoming UDP traffic by default, even if you do an IGMP (sigh retarded OS)

firewall is off (disabled)
no changes at all

wireshark detects no igmp request from my sp2 notebook

I haven't tried this since I posted.
I can try it on another workstation and see what happens.
One difference bewteen laptop and workstation is presence of Checkpoint VPN client which has its own built-in firewall (although it's good enough any packet drops).