How to use Windows Media Player?

[Magz]

Hi,
can I use the wmp for receiving a multicast stream sent by vlc?? I stream a mpeg stream with this cmdline:
vlc -vvv v4l:/dev/video:norm=pal:frequency=154250:size=640x480:channel=0:adev=/dev/audio:audio=mono --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=1024,ab=96,vt=80000,keyint=80,deinterlace}:std{access=udp,mux=ts,url=239.255.210.81}' --ttl 7

Do I need a codec or anything else ??

thanks
Magz

[BigBen]

WMP is unable to open a MPEG/TS file (... as far as I know).

The only way I see to have WMP open a file streamed by VLC would be to stream it over HTTP, using the avi muxer.

[sudhanshu]

Is mplayer able to open mpeg/ts stream sent as multicast.

thanx
Sudhanshu

[Sigmund]

MPlayer should be able to play it, as far as I know. WMP needs extra codecs (moonlight)

[Guest 2]

Has anyone succesfully tried this and made it work?

[Guest]

yes and no- the problem is: i a have being investigating this alot. I have being tring to build a simple udp player that would work with vlc udp streams. I can record no problem. but play back is difficult. mediaplayer needs a a certian demuxer for it should work. I get it to work from time to time- but not consistantly. what happening now for me is that is donwload the entire stream first then it plays it. I compiled the dx9sdk dsnetfilers which is a upd reciever/sender plugin but one needs a certian demuxer that handles streaming files I have not located one yet. read here http://www.gdcl.co.uk/live.htm. perhaps some one here would know of such a dx filter demuxer that is capable of or maybe some can create one

[Guest]

you could try moonlight's stuff you need the the video codec's, netsource, and streamer.
once everything is installed
just put this in your open file url in the player

moonlight://235.10.0.1:5000/udp or what ever the ip and port might be