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1st of all VLC rocks. Yea it's not as fast as PowerDVD on some machines and dx and some vid drivers, but it's the best overall client I've ever seen that runs on mimum hardware.

I've been trying forever to hunt through the documentation on how to set up a simple relay server.

client/origin is on a vpn 750k max upload. Relay would be on an isp's win32 server.

did I miss something or is it impossible to set up a "shoutcast" type relay server with VLS?

I'm preparing for the holidays (i got a fat pipe where I'll just blow out the bandwidth at the end of december if I can, and probably will) and want to stream my VLC playlist of old holiday movies... (a wonderful life, emmit otter's jugband xmass, grinch cartoons, charlie brown, rudolf, etc) I know I appriciated it when I had nowhere to go during xmas.

I just need to know the following:

is there a connection limit setting? (no biggie, I can set that at the router)
is there a "best" way to direclty relay the stream?
can one of you give instructions on the best way to relay it?

I can stream fine if the video file is local to the isp server, but rather then upload a few gigs I'd just rather stream it from another comp on the vpn and let the server at the isp handle the bandwith. If I open a stream on the server with VLC (not vls) same settings as the remote origin stream, and then stream the output, all clients get maybe 1-2 seconds (all os's) before they just stop processing data and the connected VLC clients stall.

Any help would be welcome ALLOT.

Thanks in advance, I got till Dec 17th (or around there, figure a week of movies at night)

If what you really need/want is VLS, I don't know. VLC, however, is pretty easy to set up to repromulgate data. Take a look at wiki.videolan.org, under Articles -- step by step guide to UDP streaming.

Under the newest VLC (0.8 test), you would pick File -- Open Network Stream. That's where you will input the connection stuff for getting the incoming video. Then select "Stream output" in the bottom of the page, click Settings" next to it, and that opens the window for you to set up the output stream.