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Okay so here's my situation and I'm going to try and explain it as fully as possible.

A summary of the end result I'm trying to achieve is streaming of my roommate's computer screen over LAN to either a rtmp or rtsp address. I will then use this to stream to my Justin.tv livestream using the program called XSplit. (I know that's off topic but I'm trying to give some context). I have scoured Google and I can't find any sort of up-to-date documentation ANYWHERE regarding how to just straight up stream and receive a stream of "screen://". The graphical interface of VLC seems so straightforward, but I cannot even come close to doing this. Can anybody simply explain (or link to a guide) of how to do this? I've gotten as far as here and I have no clue which option to select or what variables to put in after. And after this, I don't know how to correctly receive the stream.

Any help would be AWESOME.

Thanks!

Wow, nobody has needed to do this before?

Select RTSP in the drop down list??

I guess the thing that I'm confused about is what you would type when you select RTSP, which IP address to use. Do I have to use a specific address to tell it that it's LAN, or will that be inherent in the fact that both computers are connected via LAN?

That's (confusingly) the local IP address to bind the server. Normally, you can just leave the field empty.

Okay so I left the RTSP field blank and then tried to connect with another computer on the network. I received this error message:



Looking at the error message log I see this:

I hate to double-post, but has really nobody else had this problem...?

select rtsp, click on "Add" and in the path field write :
/my_stream

on the vlc client, open rtsp://ip:5544/my_stream

Thanks for the response, but here's the error I get now:

screen streaming seems to be broken :
x264 [error]: Input picture width (1280) is greater than stride (0)

That's too bad will they be working on it for the next patch?

if someone works on it...
You can open a bug report

I need to do this as well! I'm using xSplit too.
I need "Gaming Rig" to stream speaker audio+Mic Audio and the Screen to my "Dreamvoid TV" Computer through LAN.
"Dreamvoid TV" Computer is using Xsplit to stream the complete end-stream that goes live on dreamvoid.com/live.

I mailed Xsplit and asked them if they would implement a feature in xsplit that allows you to stream locally to another computer running Xsplit.

Kinda like this:
Gaming Rig Xsplit: "Broadcast: Local". boom.. you stream live to IP ADDRESS "192.168.0.4" or whatever
Dreamvoid TV Xsplit: "Oh hai..Afflicto, Gaming Rig wants to stream to us from "192.168.0.3" - I select yes.. and boom. done.

Would be awesome. I was looking into setting up a custom RTMP and figure out a way to do this in VLC, which is probably possible but confisuing, complex and not too easy.

If anyone has any idea on how to get this working in any way - Please do not hesitate to contact me at afflicto@dreamvoid.com
Or just visit my website at dreamvoid.com if you're into gaming, programming, game developing and stuff liek that!

Cya! and Regards
-Afflicto x)

As I know screen:// streaming doesent work itself.

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'rtsp://129.21.120.99:5544/my_stream'. Check the log for details.

I got error like this when I have no route for multicast in my operation system. Try to add route for multicast if you have not it yet.