Does VLC work with IPv6 Addressing

[jimk]

I am trying to stream video between two Linux machines using IPv6 addressing. The machine streaming the video IP address is fe80::230:48ff:fe54:876e and the receiving machine IP address is fe80::230:48ff:fe54:876d.

I start VLC from the command line
vlc -vvv dvdsimple:/dev/dvd --ipv6 --sout udp:[fe80::230:48ff:fe54:876d%eth0] --ttl 16

and the VLC application opens an appears to be playing as the the statistics are incrementing. But when I open the the VLC client from the command line on the client as follows:

vlc -vvv --ipv6 udp::[fe80::230:48ff:fe54:876d%eth0]

VLC opens, but does not play the dvd streaming from the other machine.
I have tried using the "\" to escape the ipv6 address and it made no difference.

Any suggestions on how to get the VLC client to play the streaming video using IPv6 addressing would be helpful. FYI: Using IPv4 addressing I am able to stream the dvd between thesse two Linux machines. I am running
Red hat Enterprise Edition 4 on bot machines.

Jim[/code]

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Syntax is wrong on the client. You are specifying the destination address as a source address.

Use:
vlc udp://
or, if you really want to bind a particular receiving address:
vlc udp://@[fe80::230:48ff:fe54:876d%eth0]

[jimk]

I had a typying error in my previous post the VLC server is started as follows:

vlc -vvv dvdsimple:/dev/dvd --ipv6 --sout udp:[fe80::230:48ff:fe54:876e%eth0] --ttl 16

and the client server on the other machine is started as follows:
vlc -vvv --ipv6 udp::[fe80::230:48ff:fe54:876d%eth0]

I have also tried starting the client as you suggested and it made no difference. I susspect the issue is with the server and the fact that no data
is leaving the ethernet interface.