What I am trying to do is pick up my ISP's television network with my laptop and vlc.
My ISP's box in our house has two ethernet outs. One is our internet and the other goes to a switch that goes to our Set-Top Boxes. This network has no internet access. I plugged my laptop into that switch and watched the packets in Wireshark. There was a lot of traffic form a 10.x.x.x addresses to IPv4 239.x.x.x Multicast addresses with the protocol type MPEG TS. To intercept the stream I have tried changing the laptop's MAC address to match the MAC of one of our STBs. I unplugged it and plugged in the laptop. I opened the stream in VLC many different ways.
udp://@239.19.242.202
rtp://@239.19.242.202
udp://@239.19.242.202:32778 (this was the source port listed in wireshark)
rtp://@239.19.242.202:32778
and all the above withou the @ and so forth.
I tried unicast connections to the 10.x address as well but after some reading I don't think that is how to do it.
None of these produced much of a result. Some failed altogether and others caused a large spike in traffic (about 1.5 MB/s) but no video was displayed.
Here is a copy of the log for option #3 above. I believe 3 or 4 is the correct syntax, but I am not sure.
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-- logger module started --
main debug: using interface module "logger"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 9.981 ms - Total 9.981 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 9.981 ms)
main debug: adding item `rtp://239.19.242.65' ( rtp://@239.19.242.65 )
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rtpl:u/a/ 2d3e9b.u1g9:. 2T4r2y.i6n5g
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gmea.iln udaecb
ug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creatimnagi na nd eibnupgu:t ufsoirn g' rmtept:a/ /f2e3t9.c1h9e.r2 4m2o.d6u5l'e
"lua"
main debug: TIMER momain debug: using timeshift gradnuullea_rity ofn e5e0d (M)i B:, 2i8n. 7p2a9t hm s' C-: \DOCUME~1\Pammie\LOCALS~1\Temp'
main debug: `rtp://@239.19.242.65' gives access `rtp' demux `' path `@239.19.242.65'
main debug: creating demux: acceTsost=a'lr t2p8'. demux='' location='@239.19.242.65' file='\\@239.19.242.65'
729 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 28.729 ms)
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 1 candidate
main debug: net: opening 239.19.242.65 datagram port 5004
main debug: removing module "lua"q
main debug: t4 debug: IM: Setsearching art for ting an input
rmain debug: using access_demux module "rtp"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 21.484 ms - Total 21.484 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 21.484 ms)
main debug: looking for meta reader module: 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Documents and Settings\Pammie\Application Data\vlc\lua\meta\reader
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\reader
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\reader\filename.luac
tp://239main debug: no meta rea.d1e9r .m2o4d2u.l6e5
matchingm a"iann yd"e bcuogu:l dl oboek ilnoga dfeod
rm aairnt dfeibnudge:r TmIoMdEuRl em:o d2u lcea_nndeiedda(t)e s:
15.448 ms - Total 15.448 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 15.4l4u8a mdse)
bugmain debug: `rtp://@239.19.242.65' successfully opened
: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Documents and Settings\Pammie\Application Data\vlc\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac
main debug: no art finder module matching "any" could be loaded
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 32.946 ms - Total 32.946 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 32.946 ms)
main debug: art not found for rtp://239.19.242.65
-- logger module started --
main debug: using interface module "logger"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 5.668 ms - Total 5.668 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 5.668 ms)
main debug: looking for services probe module: 6 candidates
main debug: no services probe module matching "any" could be loaded
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 9.245 ms - Total 9.245 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 9.245 ms)
qt4 debug: Sorting by column -1, order 0
qt4 debug: Sorting by column 0, order 0
qt4 debug: Sorting by column -1, order 0
qt4 debug: Normal PL/ML or SD
qt4 debug: Normal PL/ML or SD
main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
main debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index 0
main debug: processing request item: udp://239.19.242.202:32778, node: Playlist, skip: 0
main debug: resyncing on udp://239.19.242.202:32778
main debug: udp://239.19.242.202:32778 is at 0
main debug: starting playback of the new playlist item
main debug: resyncing on udp://239.19.242.202:32778
main debug: udp://239.19.242.202:32778 is at 0
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'udp://239.19.242.202:32778'
qt4 debugmai:n debIugM:: Settuing san iinput
ng timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\DOCUME~1\Pammie\LOCALS~1\Temp'
main debug: `udp://@239.19.242.202:32778' gives access `udp' demux `' path `@239.19.242.202:32778'
main debug: enforced demux ` ts'
main debug: creating demux: access='udp' demux='ts' location='@239.19.242.202:32778' file='\\@239.19.242.202:32778'
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 0 candidates
main debug: no access_demux module matched "udp"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 1.049 ms - Total 1.049 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1.049 ms)
main debug: creating access 'udp' location='@239.19.242.202:32778', path='\\@239.19.242.202:32778'
main debug: looking for access module: 1 candidate
access_udp debug: opening server=:0 local=239.19.242.202:32778
main debug: net: opening 239.19.242.202 datagram port 32778
main debug: using access module "access_udp"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 7.661 ms - Total 7.661 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 7.661 ms)
main debug: Using block method for AStream*
main debug: starting pre-buffering
main debug: incoming request - stopping current input
main debug: waitpipe: object killed
main debug: dying input
main debug: socket 1220 polling interrupted
main debug: prebuffering done 0 bytes in 667s - 0 KiB/s
main error: cannot pre fill buffer
main warning: cannot create a stream_t from access
main debug: removing module "access_udp"
main debug: dying input
main debug: dead input
qt4 debug: IM: Deleting the input
main debug: TIMER input launching for 'udp://239.19.242.202:32778' : 670033.129 ms - Total 670033.129 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 670033.097 ms)
main debug: exiting
main debug: deactivating the playlist
main debug: deactivating the playlist
main debug: saving Media Library to file C:\Documents and Settings\Pammie\Application Data\vlc\ml.xspf
main debug: looking for playlist export module: 1 candidate
main debug: using playlist export module "export"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 893.028 ms - Total 893.028 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 893.028 ms)
main debug: removing module "export"
main debug: playlist correctly deactivated
main debug: removing all services discovery tasks
main debug: removing all interfaces
main debug: removing module "logger"
-- logger module stopped --