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Hey everyone,

like most other avid vlc users, i was excited to hear the program getting GPU hardware acceleration. however, when i loaded the new verison on my home computer and work computer i found that the HTTP streaming through my SSH tunnel longer worked. i know it's the program because when i downgraded back to v1.0.5 it worked again like a charm?

anyone have any other problems streaming? is this a new bug being addressed?

Could you check with Wireshark what actually happens?

Hello, did you get your HTTP streaming thru SSH tunnel working? If so, would you care to pass on how you did it? I am running VLC on a linux server with a ssh tunnel.
Am trying, without success to stream thu it. Help much appreciated.

so to follow up with my original post.

it appears the issue has been resolved with the final release of 1.1.0. not entirely sure what was going on with the release candidate as i wasnt able to run wireshark at work with the pre-release since i immediately downgraded back to the 1.0.5.

the only thing i will mention is that if you are using a ssh tunnel that uses a socks proxy to tunnel http traffic you need to remember to add the --socks=x.x.x.x:y clause at the end of the line "Start in:" line in the properties for the program. this will automatically set VLC to use the socks proxy and therefore your SSH tunnel. <<< USE THIS METHOD WHEN STREAMING VIDEOS OFF OF HTTP WEBSERVERS AND WANT TO USE THE SSH TUNNEL.

the method above does not work when you are streaming a video feed through an SSH tunnel directly using port forwarding however, so make sure you remove the socks proxy config line above if you are using port forwarding through the SSH tunnel to stream a video with the program.

hope this helps some people out there.

-kdoh

it appears the issue has been resolved with the final release of 1.1.0. not entirely sure what was going on with the release candidate as i wasnt able to run wireshark at work with the pre-release since i immediately downgraded back to the 1.0.5.

Cool.