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Dear all,

I am very new to the VLC player and this forum as this is my first post. I want to use VLC player to configure in a way such that, the player should send the streams to play in the network. I have tried with the wizard and sometimes it is working and also not able to have more no. of clients.

Please advice. Many thanks in advance.

Welcome,

If I am not misreading your question, you want several clients for a same stream?
In this case, you should use multicast or broadcast destination IP on the streamer.

broadcast:
If your network IPs looks like 192.168.1.*, then the broadcast address for this network is 192.168.1.255. If you ask the streamer to stream a media (using UDP) to this IP address (default port is 1234), every computers on this network will be able to receive the stream, listening on udp://:1234 if I remember correctly.

multicast:
You can also use a multicast destination address for the stream (UDP), 239.0.0.1 for example (it is in the range of IPs dedicated to multicast). In this case, receivers should listen to udp://@239.0.0.1:1234.

some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast
http://wiki.videolan.org/Multicast

Anthony