streaming UDP is not recommended

[Beginner1]

I downloaded the new version 0.9.2 and saw that streaming UDP is not recommended(there is a poup message indicating so).
can someone explain why?
Regards
Ronny

[dionoea]

Because RTP was designed to be a streaming protocol and UDP wasn't (RTP is on top of UDP anyway).

Cheers,

[cable007]

just tested it and result is horrible !!!
before with udp stream it was ok now catastrophic

downgraded into last 0.8.6

Nico

PS : tested in trying to stream from webcam and from hardware card

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You are free to use the insecure old buggy unsupported version.

That being noted, both 0.8.6 and 0.9 support both crappy UDP and proper RTP.

[makroll]

Even if UDP is not recommended for streaming, all IPTV operators use UDP.
You should think about it
Cheers

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Yeah, we've thought about it, and concluded that using raw UDP is plain stupid, and RTP over UDP is good.

[makroll]

Well, there must be many stupid people around the world then... broadcasters, engineers, stupid people that started VLC development (see Anevia guys...)
It is not crappy, it is just best effort...
Indeed it is a pitty to loose this feature in VLC (it is true, one can use older versions...)

[ranshalit]

Hi,

I know this thread is quite old,
but maybe I can add something for this discussion.
I am using latest vlc version 2.2.1.
I have tried now both udp and rtp with some simple file between 2 computers connected with cable.
With udp I get excelent result, but with rtp, it is really buggy, and horrible. I use same file for both.
Is there any idea what could be wrong when trying to stream rtp file between two computers ?
computer1: sends to 169.54.20.21:5004
computer2: listens to rtp://@:5004

Thank you!
Ran

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Misconfiguration would be the most obvious problem.

[ranshalit]

Hi,

After moving from vlc 2.2.1 64 bit to vlc 2.2.1 32-bit ( windows 7) it is OK, in both udp and rtp.
Maybe it is bug in vlc 2.2.1 64-bit ?

Regards,
Ran