Newbie question for using VLC player! Not working Pls help

[tfyick]

Hi,

My server pc is windows xp with sp2, I stop the firewall, I run VLC player and then open a mpg file with UDP address 239.20.30.40 with port 1234.

the client pc is windows xp with zone alarm. I stop the zone alarm. I run VLC Player and use open network stream. using udp/rtp multicast address 239.20.30.40 with port 1234.

But no video come out!

Can anyone pls tell me what's wrong and what else can I do?

Both pc can ping each other and can open the share folder of the other pc.

Thanks in advance

[markfm]

Open View -- Messages on both ends, before starting to stream, and starting to receive.

The above will display debugger information in a separate window. Need to see if there are ERROR or WARNING messages, probably fairly early on.

By any chance does one or the other of the PCs have two Ethernet cards active? In such a case you should use a network Route statement, to let the PC know which NIC to use.

If you have an application called VMWare running on either PC, that is also known to cause difficulties.

[tfyick]

Thanks for sharing your information. After I open the message windows, the client can pick up the stream. May be something wrong with my pcs yesterday!

Want to know if I use a Celeron 1.7G CPU with 256M RAM, what is the maximum no. of clients VLC can support?

[markfm]

No idea. Once you have done the original work to set up a stream, additional clients should add only a small amount of load to the Server, since it is just the CPU cost of duplicating the data, putting them it in packets for the other clients.

(and if you are on a local LAN segment, say in your home, you can use a multicast UDP, and then it really is only one set of packets being generated, anyone who wants to can "listen in" on the multicast address.)