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Streaming desktop to http:// address without screen://

Postby alborz » 08 Oct 2018 19:25

Hi,
First time user here!

I would like to stream my desktop locally using http. VLC has an option for choosing http as type of stream but it automatically adds screen:// to the beginning of the URL.
I need a url in the form of http:// not screen://
Can it be done, It looks like as it used to be in that way but It seems to have changed!

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Re: Streaming desktop to http:// address without screen://

Postby Hitchhiker » 08 Oct 2018 19:30

The VLC streaming tutorial is here: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation ... ing_HowTo/

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Re: Streaming desktop to http:// address without screen://

Postby alborz » 08 Oct 2018 20:37

The VLC streaming tutorial is here: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation ... ing_HowTo/

Unfortunately I could not find anything useful in the documentation.
The documentation is incomplete and extremely old, just see the timestamp of the page "This page was last modified on 9 November 2014, at 10:18."

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Re: Streaming desktop to http:// address without screen://

Postby Hitchhiker » 08 Oct 2018 21:16

Yeah, a lot of the documentation is old, but still valid in most cases.

Try the steps in this tutorial instead. Skip part 1 and begin at part 2.

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Re: Streaming desktop to http:// address without screen://

Postby alborz » 09 Oct 2018 19:51

That guide creates a stream of a file, it does not stream the content on the desktop.

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Re: Streaming desktop to http:// address without screen://

Postby DonBn08 » 13 Jan 2019 13:12

It is possible to stream any Windows PC desktop with VLC to any streaming device or other PC. You just need to use a different version of VLC. There is a YT how to "desktop stream windows 7". To pickup the stream on different PC use VLC Ctrl N and input source PC ip:port/Path


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