VLC running as a general media server to all clients

[bean88]

I have compiled VLC on Gentoo Linux, no problem.

I may be making an assumption here that is wrong: using VLC to stream to a client, you must target a stream to a remote host. You cannot set up VLC as a server listening on a specific port to process a media request and start a stream. Am I wrong?

If that assumption is wrong, from a command line in Linux, is there a way to start VLC so it will stream via a good protocol (I assume either rtp or rtsp is best) all files in a directory based on the client's request (i.e. [code]rtsp://<ip addres of vlc server>:<port>/file.mp4[/code]) to any ip making the request?

Thank you in advance.[/code]

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

We support RTSP and several other streaming methods.

Refer to the Streaming howto http://www.videolan.org/doc/ for details.[/i]

[bean88]

I am stunned by the number of options VLC supports for streaming media. I do need to invest some time and energy with the documentation to understand the features. Thanks for your patient reply.