Postby Scott JHU-ECE » 24 Feb 2006 13:15
My thought would be that you're dealing with NAT (router) issues. UDP/RTP/RTSP do just fine if both computers are on the same network (i.e. in 192.168 land on the LAN, or if both computers are on an outside connection). HTTP provides functionality to traverse through routers, however (i.e. it would be difficult for a good chunk of computer users to view web pages if that weren't the case). It is indeed slower than other streaming options.
I'm told it's something the VideoLAN developers are working on - faster streaming through routers and such.