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I'm trying to stream my desktop to a local network. instructions I have found suggest UDP. But I've tried HTTP and RTSP when setting up the stream. VLC seems to be streaming the desktop, but I can't open the stream. Tried opening it on iOS and on Mac. Checked firewall and it's fine. I can ping the windows machine from the Mac. Wondering if anyone has any other ideas. VLC just can't seem to open the stream. Thx.