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I am not a newbie to streaming. I stream using Windows Media Encoder and SageTV using various sources for the stream. I stream from the streaming server (Windows XP) to PCs on my local LAN and externally to the Internet from a variety of capture devices. I have resolved all of the firewall (port forwarding, etc.) issues for streaming with these programs.

I have long used VLC as a media player, but have never used it for streaming over a network connection and thought I'd give it a try since I really like VLC.

Here is my situation: I am trying to set up VLC to stream from a Windows XP computer using a Canopus ADVC300 video controller (it works just like a DV camcorder) as a source. VLC recognizes this device and I can play from that device on that computer just fine using VLC - so I know VLC is fully capable of using this device as a source for the streaming server. (I can stream fine using this device with Windows Media Encoder).

Normally, i just follow the instructions and read and am able to figure it out. However, either I am unable to find it, or it doesn't exist - i.e. a simple set of instructions as to how to set up VLC to stream under Windows XP. All of the step by step docs I can seem to find are for Linux.

Can someone please point me to a step-by-step set of instructions as to how to get started doing this - or give me a couple of simple pointers as to how to setup the streaming server so that I can stream to a VLC client PC? I think that I start with Media/Streaming/Capture Device. I then select the Video Device, click Stream, and then I get lost from there. if someone could give me a simple set of settings to get me started - I can then try more advanced options - but I can't seem to get off the ground

I have a local LAN with gateway router 192.168.1.1 with the streaming server having static IP of 192.168.1.210.

Thank you very much in advance for your help!

What kind of streaming you want? HTTP, UDP or other?
And how about video and audio transcoding?

Thank you very much for the reply.

I am new here and I think I posted this issue in the wrong section. So, I reposted it here:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=67910&p=225795#p225795 where there has been some further discussion.

To answer your questions, I simply want to stream, at 720x480 or 640x320 (full screen) from the ADVC300, in real time, across the net to a VLC client. I am able to do this with SageTV and Windows Media Encoder and thought I'd try VLC.

If there is further discussion, we should probably use the link above in the streaming forum as that's probably where it really belongs. If you are an admin or a mod, maybe you might want to just delete it from this section?

Thanks again!

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