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Good day all,

I am having a lot of trouble streaming my desktop out to the Internet using the latest version.
I must use UDP over RDP to send it out, as I want to send it to two other machines over the Internet
and that's how the receiver of the video, a third party, wants it. OK, fine.

On the server itself, running XP SP3 fully patched, I go to Media->Streaming. I click on the "Network"
tab, and I tell it UDP, 239.255.200.100 port 1234.

I then click on the "Capture Device" tab, and then choose Capture mode: desktop,
frame rate 10, then click "Stream".

I then check the "RTP" and "prefer UDP over RTP". For the first address, I leave it blank. The second one, I use
239.255.200.100. I use port 1234 for both RTP and RTP over UDP, and video on port 1235
.
Encapsulation: MPEG-TS, video codec WMV2 with 768 kb/sec rate; Audio codec, WMA,64 kb/sec, no subtitles.

I hit "stream", and it appears to be streaming.

I then, on a computer on the Internet, use the VLC player and I go into "Media", then "Open Network". I choose protocol of UDP, my machine's name on the internet, and port 1235. I then hit play and it says:

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'udp://@nameofmachine.com:1235'. Check the log for details.

What am I doing wrong? Any help, greatly appreciated. Thanks.

You're section of the Internet is multicast enabled ? That would be quite rare.... ( aka, you will need 2 streams, directly pointed at the client IP.)

Hi DJ,

Thanks for your reply! Well, itis capable of being so (at a University, it helps!). How do I do tis on my PC? I thought I had it set up. Running XP SP3.

ok, then for multicast use:

239.0.10.10 as a destination IP on the server, and then on the clientmachine, listen to that same ip address.

DJ