VLC video player / streamer

From: Joe Smith (joe428sm_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 12:54:08 -0500

This may be old stuff to others but it's new to me. www.videolan.org puts
out an interesting free player / server for mpeg video, for both linux
and windows. It's called VLC (also videolan, I think).

So far I've been able to view, as a stream, an mpeg file that I put on our
web server, by using vlc, in windows, and in Linux. VLC also installed a
plugin to internet explorer, so the video automatically opens up even if
you use internet explorer, rather than vlc, to view it.

I've also been able to serve the video to a particular pc on our lan,
pointing to its address of 192.168.0.50. By opening a copy of vlc on that
pc, and pointing it back to the serving pc, 192.168.0.100, I could view
the streaming video, speed it up, and slow it down.

It also, supposedly, streams to a 'multicast ip', but I haven't figured
that out yet. From reading the documentation on the website, it looks like
it should also stream, in real time, from a video camera. Mine is plugged
into a firewire card, but playing around with the settings in vlc hasn't
resulted in any real-time streaming. Anybody have any tips about this?

But even from what I've been able to do with it so far, I'd say it's a
darn good little program.

I don't know what it takes, in money and expertise, to set up a Real
Player, or other, server for video, but it seems this little program makes
video streaming, at least from a web site, very easy for anybody.

I just noticed they have a forum at http://forum.videolan.org/, so I'll
trawl that for information, but hope that others who are unaware of vlc
will check it out.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Streaming video from my website
    ... posted and it does open the WMP from the website. ... to fix it on my machine, but on the server. ... through a lot of prep work to see a 20 second video. ... There's more in-depth info on this site about web server streaming: ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player)
  • Re: Streaming video from my website
    ... The problem is, though, I wouldn't want to fix it on my machine, but on the server. ... Because I'm not concerned about me seeing it, but the visitors to the website. ... Don't want them to have to go through a lot of prep work to see a 20 second video. ... There's more in-depth info on this site about web server streaming: ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player)
  • Re: Something like this has got to exist?
    ... I really don't think that video gaming has contributed ANYTHING to society. ... armor your server from other uses. ... for streaming video, but you might get lucky just jumping on. ... Plus the remote control. ...
    (rec.audio.tech)
  • Re: Looping A Playlist With Files And Link REMOTELY Hosted
    ... different concept of streaming video, videocasting as we've come to know ... Sending media content from a 'blog entry' on a web server is ... from WME or VLC to windows media server ... Well live video uses the MMS protocol, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player.web)
  • Re: Looping A Playlist With Files And Link REMOTELY Hosted
    ... use their Darwin streaming server to punt out streamed, ... quicktime video. ... different concept of streaming video, videocasting as we've come to know ... Windows Media Encoder, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player.web)