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i have successfully streamed movie files and tv media over the lan, but i can not get the streaming of dvd working. Three pcs are sharing one dvdrom, any info on how to watch the dvd movie simutaneously on the three pcs? Thanks a lot!

File -- Open Disc
Pick the second DVD option (DVD simple, not the one with menus)
Select the Stream Output checkbox, multicast UDP. Plug in a valid multicast address (say, 239.255.30.40).

first, the locally played image is draged and in slow-motion; second, how to set up the client? is it muticast 239.255.30.40? nothing happened when I did this!
thanks for replying!

Don't do a "Play locally". If you want/need to see it on the PC with the drive, I would try opening a second copy of VLC on that same computer, use it as a client to the stream.

For the clients, yes, you would input 239.255.30.40 in the space next to "UDP".

Take a look at the documentation for VLC. There's a step-by-step, using wxwindows, for how to UDP stream. It's a PDF file, English.

on the client side run vlc -vvv udp:@multicat_address:port_no, xhere
multicat_address= multicast IP address
port_no= the port number you specified on the server side.
It works!