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Hello,

I've been reading this forum trying to find out in plain english how to let a video stream from VLC be played back by an Aminicom AmiNET 110 STB. I've read the information over and over but it's all just confusing, one person says use the wizard, the other says don't, one person says you need a patch, the other says it works without the patch, one says you need to use IGMP, another says RTSP, yet another says you need to apply settings from the command line etc.

Just where is the truth?

What I do know is that I have version 0.86a installed and that using the wizard I have tried both a HTTP and RTP/UDP unicast stream (MPEG2 file format) and on my notebook it will playback in another instance of VLC but never on the AmiNET 110 STB.

If I add a link in the html code such as http://<my IP address>:8080 it will just show a hourglass for a few seconds but not playback the video.

If I add a link in the html code such as igmp://239.0.0.0:1234 as advised by some here it will just show a message saying this address type is unknown or supported.

The AmiNET 110 is running the Opera web browser dated 2006.

If I do need the patch to make this to work, how do I incorporate it into build 0.86a? I probably need to compile the source code somehow right? Must I use Cygwin which is just so not user friendly under Windows?

If anyone can just explain step by step this would be very nice indeed. Thank you.

Very similar happens to me, except that I can see very choppy and distorted video streamed to UDP 239.255.0.0:1234 as MPEG TS. I just put Javascript in my html:

AVMedia.Play('src=igmp://239.255.0.0:1234');

I'd like to use RTSP, however, though I can stream my mpg file with VLC to RTP, I can't even see it with another VLC client. When I try it with rtsp://127.0.0.1:1234 I'm getting error
Unable to open 'rtsp://127.0.0.1:1234'
and that's what I see in the Messages:

live555 error: Failed to connect with rtsp://127.0.0.1:1234
main error: Connection to 127.0.0.1 port 1234 failed: Connection timed out
access_realrtsp error: cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:1234
main error: no suitable access module for `rtsp://127.0.0.1:1234'

Everything is on Winows XP SP2.