Streaming to Amino AmiNET124 - unicast or multicast

[tvtalkshowshigh]

We've been looking for a good streaming video client for a while so last week we ordered an AmiNET124

I've had a look around the forums and established that multicast streaming does[/u] now work to Amino boxes but has to be UDP video packets sent over RTSP.

Other posts suggest that UDP unicast streaming should work, but whenever i try that i just get a black screen on the aminet124.

i stream out of VLC pointing the unicast UDP stream to the IP address of the aminet124 with a port number and point the aminet124 at udp://:1234 (for port number 1234) but i just get a black screen. i've also tried udp://@:1234 but that doesn't work either.

any thoughts...?

thanks,

mark.

[robc]

Unicast UDP streaming does definitely work between VLC and Amino set-top boxes. In terms of configuring this however, while it sounds like you have got it sorted out on the server side with VLC, on the set-top box, you must supply the source address when specifying the UDP source URL. eg. udp://192.168.0.1:1234

[baldur]

no you specify the destination address for unicast. so udp://1.2.3.4:1234 where 1.2.3.4 is the address of the box. You can also do udp://0.0.0.0:1234 to do INADDR_ANY binding.

[tvtalkshowshigh]

i think you're both saying the same thing - that source (VLC server) and destination (Amino STB client) need to specify each other's IP address...?

i'll try that when i'm in the office tomorrow morning and report back.

thanks guys.

[tvtalkshowshigh]

ok, problem solved!

for unicast UDP as baldur said, you specify the destination address on both server AND client. This seems a bit unintuitive to me, but it works!

vlc streams to: udp://192.168.7.147:5555 (amino box ip address)
amino browses to: udp://192.168.7.147:5555 (amino box ip address)
it also works if the amino browses to udp://127.0.0.1:5555

and for multicast...
it's just a case of streaming udp from vlc to a multicast address (anything from 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255) and a port, and telling the Amnio box to browse to igmp://mulitcastIPaddress:port (ie. igmp://224.1.1.1:1234)


thanks guys,

mark.