The VideoLAN Forums

Hi!

I am playing around with VLC and it is an awesome piece of work!
I would like to be able to stream to a couple of PC's that are on the Internet from my 10Mbit internet connection.

I have searched the documentation and read the forum but still don't understand how to set it up.

It works locally when I use UDP, but how do I configure my stream to be able to be recieved on multiple PC's on the internet, like P2P connectivity.

I don't know what protocol to use for this...

Many thanks in advance for any help!
Cheers,
SteelRat

Use a point-to-point protocol like MMSH. Set up a stream on your PC, then other connect to it using mms to your PC's IP address and port.

You use up one set of bandwidth for each person connecting. In other words, if you're streaming 256 kbps, two users connecting will use 512 kbps of uplink from your machine.

Exfellent, many thanks!
I got it working but only with Windows Media Player 9, my friends are unable to view the stream using VLC for some reason.

I am using MMSH...

Thanks!
SteelRat.

Try using the latest 0.8 test2

I tried the test 2 version but it still does not work, it is not a big problem but it is a bit annoying to have to use Windows Media Player instead of VLC.

I have a test stream running, with audio only if you want to give it a try.
mms://213.132.119.13:8000

Cheers,
SteelRat

Try launching vlc from a command line, at the client.
vlc mmsh://IP_of_Server:Port_of_Streamer

There was a small bug with the wxwindows client, wasn't letting you input mmsh://Server_IP:Server_Port. That's been fixed, should be OK in the next nightly build.

Thanks, that works!