Viewing a QT Broadcaster stream

[Sound]

I'm not able to view a QuickTime Broadcaster stream using VLC. I tried both unicast and multicast, with all available compressions (including MPEG-4 and "none"). I always get this from VLC:

[00000230] ps demuxer warning: garbage at input

It is receiving data but it can't display it. Any ideas about this? I'd love to have VLC read QT Broadcast input. Thank you,

Alessandro.

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Are there any news about this?

[smpn]

Ressurecting old post

I don't think VLC supports the RTSP ANNOUNCE command so it can't receive a live broadcast from QuickTime Broadcaster for relay or display.

If you send the live broadcast from QTB to Darwin Streaming Server then you could use VLC as a viewer client connected to DSS. But currently you can't use VLC as a QTB relay.

Can someone confirm that is correct?

[Sound]

After some research I was able to directly stream from VLC to QT Player. I had to manually write a SDP file. Unfortunately, I can't remember any details right now.

[smpn]

Oh, you weren't using VLC as the relay, you were just trying to connect it to DSS or some other server and view the live broadcast with a VLC client.

[Sound]

I was able to stream from QT Broadcaster to VLC too. I had to write a SDP file manually.

[smpn]

Interesting, I'd like to know how you did that. It seems to me that VLC doesn't support RTSP ANNOUNCE (Automatic Unicast in QTB) - maybe you used Manual Unicast or something?

[yeshuawatso]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew as to why you can't use multiple files with VLC and Darwin.

When I setup VLC to output the sdp file to the Darwin directory, it only allows me to use one stream. For instance when connecting to darwin via the rtsp protocol, I can connect to only one source. rtsp://ipaddress/mountpoint & rtsp://ipaddress/mountpoint2 can only be one stream (usually the first VLC init). The second mount point video is exactly the same as the first.

I'm using the setup found in this mailing list:
http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp. ... 00083.html

It is exactly how I have my VLC's setup only I can only stream one mount point even though I have created 2 seperate VLC processes.

I am wondering if it has anything to do with the multiple VLCs being on the same system and IP.

Any suggestions?

[prb13871]

hello there,

I cannot play a stream by rtsp in a QuickTime player 7.2 client, over Windows XP.
The server is a VLC media player 0.8.5 on Linux FC5.
The video is a .mp4 file that I can play without problems with QT locally
This is the command for the server:
vlc "/root/Desktop/videos/video 3 anio.MP4" -I telnet --telnet-password bozo --telnet-port 4001 --sout #
duplicate{dst=rtp{dst=224.3.3.2,port=1234,sdp=rtsp://192.168.100.222:1234/DECO1.sdp},select=noaudio}

and the URL I open in QT is:
rtsp://192.168.100.222:1234/DECO1.sdp

I can play the same stream in a VLC client though. I've tried with .mp4 as well, also with some older versions of QT, in several computers. I also downloaded some codecs and don't know what else to do ...

do I need any special settings in QT or another version or...? somebody help me please (Sound, you seem to have succeeded with it)
Thanks