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I have spent three days trying all differant options but i just cann not get VLC to stream anything at all. To start with i just want to do a simple network stream of a DVD. Can any one help??

how do you launch the player - with gui interface?
can you play (and watch) a dvd locally?

VLC 0.8.6, using the GUI (& the wizard).

Am trying to stream from suse 10.2 to an xp & win2k client on the same internal network. All pc's can ping each other, but I'm unable to connect to any stream. I can play the dvd locally on suse & also tried streaming from the win2k client to the xp client (with no success). I've disabled the suse firewall (thinking that port 1234 was being blocked), but still no success.

What am I doing wrong?

Warning, am newbie to both VLC & Linux

Please disregard my previous post, have now got VLC streaming dvd's from suse 10.2 to xp & win2k clients.