Hey quad, how can I stream the video to my LAN, as well as watch it on the local player at the same time?
Or in general, how can I stream it to the whole LAN rather than just a single IP? I tried to, but the reciever would not pick up the signal.
thanks this will be very usefull to me
KingKrool bro the guide which i have written does the same thing.
You can stream it on the entire lan aswell as watch it on ur own pc.
Also VLC is a player which ca nbe used on any OS.
Linux,Windows,Mac etcā¦ u name it and the software setup is there for that OS.
Hope ur query got answered.
Also the VLC streams are broadcast streams so all u need it tell ur
friend in LAN to fireup there VLC enter the server VLCās IP Address and port
number and there you go.
thanks for your guide, help me a lot.
do u know how can i make the receiver end auto receive without clicking play on vlc media player
good workā¦certainly helpful for people who want to have streaming going. But can you elaborate more on How can one stream if the networks are different. I bet its the same process but have 1234 port fwded so that one can access the stream
Unless you can ping the Server IP you can access it on any soft of network
be it wired or wireless.
Regarding auto playback on the client side auto playback i have no idea.
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Very Nice Guide
Tried it and works perfectly
Thanks Asky.
I still remember my old days on TE when i used to write a lot of articles.
I almost forgot abt them and now i see them back again here makes me feel
good that i am able to still help someone with there doubts thru my articles.
Well this would be good, except that in some occassions or rather most for me, if youāre doing this on a per file basis, setting per user or even the groups of users could be quite a task. Really depends if you want the file itself to be available for users if they want to copy and play it on their pc. Else like the reason why there is streaming on the net, you donāt want the file to be generally available.
Well I guess you could try the āSearchā function of windows. Though I havenāt really tried this, so good luck.
Well this is probably the main advantage of shared folders as the file is only being read from the hdisk of the server and being processed solely by the clents pc. For streaming, I think both do some work.
For the issue of ripping and saving to hdisk, the problem is that you canāt stream in live mode. Clients need for you to be finished converting the file and saving it before they could start watching.
Also, Iām doing this for the sake of discussion.
Hi Quad, i want to stream the video not on my LAN but through Internet. Like if my friend is wathcing a movie on computer somewhere else and wants to stream it on internet, can i watch the movie on my computer. Please advise
Yes you can watch using this techinique if ur friend has a global ip and is not behind any firewall or proxy.
NICE GUIDE MATEā¦ saw after so many dayz but still gr8
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Cheers! Friend,
That is the excellent Tutorials for starters.
Can you guide us to do the same using scripting as it would enable us to transcode the streams to be played in windows media player as well as to manupulate the bit-rate etc.
Regards,
Gagan
Very nice guide, I am already a big supporter of Video Lan
I have a related doubt ā¦
suppose i am downloading a file and i know that the file is being downloaded sequentially
pls dont bother about that ( assume it is sequentially blocks of file are coming in )
how do i stream it on my comp ?
i have heard of this mms://
can that be used for streaming as the file is being downloaded ??
A file that is available for download is available via http.
unless there is a streaming server which will handle how the video file is to be streamed how will you be able to recieve the streams and watch it.
I am still not clear about ur doubt.
well here is what i mean
there is no streaming
regular downloading of a file and assume that the file blocks are coming in sequentially and as the file is being downloaded i want to view the video instead of waiting for the whole file to download and open it with vlc player ā¦
so how to do that basically i want to write code for it.
no idea.
just try to open that http link.
File > Open Network Stream > enter ur link using HTTP URL box.
9/10ā¦ very detailed and carefully explained