I have tried to stream a screen capture windows desktop computer to a windows laptop on the same router. Without knowing anything about VLC except the fact that it plays videos, I entered these settings:
port: 8080
path: / (default )
Activate Transcoding: True (checked)
Profile: Video - H.264 + MP3 (Mp4)
Generated output string: :sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=0,scale=0,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:http{mux=ffmpeg{mux=flv},dst=:8080/} :sout-keep
Then on the host computer I entered my ipv4 found using the ipconfig command in CMD XXX.XXX.X.XXX
The screen remained black, the title on the window border changed to the ipv4 for a brief moment, then disappeared. I have no idea what i'm doing.