How to proceed

[dolevo]

Hi all,

I have been using VLC as a media player but never used it as a streaming server. So please explain the things as simple as possible.

For a test purpose, I have a setup where I stream the webcam over network. This was the easy part for me.

I have a server which is running on openembedded system. What this server does is that it sends the video + audio data to connected clients which are also on openembedded system and each client decodes and shows the content on the screen. Pretty basic stuff. However, we are currently handling the data transmission by our self and we use a regular TCP connection. The things are getting bigger and we sometimes need transcoding and we are now desperately in need of a streaming server. We don't need any player but the streaming part.

I have split the task to two part, server and clients part. For the server part, I have a setup on a Windows machine and VLC is currently streaming the build-in webcam over network. I will put this part into my server later.
So, my first target is to connect to that streaming server from one of my clients and receive data from it. Can anyone tell me where I should start?