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I have read through the documentation and I am still struggling with the use of the command line. I have not been able to get it to work.
here is the most recent code i have tried

this line opens the vlc, and i can see the commands run through the ouput piece on vlc, but it does nothing, no error occurs
vlc -vvv input_stream --sout '#rtp{dst=192.168.1.103, port=1234, file://c:\movie.mpg}'

i don't feel that i am formatting it correctly. i have been struggling with this for a long time and would really appreciate some help or more clarification on how to do rtp using the command line.

my ultimate goal is to embed a video player into a java desktop app, allowing me to stream video from a server to watch on that app, that is why i am choosing to do rtp. i would like to get it to work using the command line, and then i will move on to using the jvlc bindings.

Thanks for help in advance.

try vlc -vvv file://c:\movie.mpg --sout '#rtp{dst=192.168.1.103, port=1234}'

Thanks for the reply

I tried your code and I get the same thing. It opens and runs the lines, but nothing happens. Does vlc do a log file that I could get error messages from?

Thanks for your help.

To store a debug log of the current VLC session, you can use 'vlc -vvv --extraintf=logger'. You will end-up with a vlc-log.txt file in your current directory.