How to mulicast video using VLC?

 

[topology]

 

H1---s1---H2

 

H1: sender

H2: receiver

 

[Experiment]

1.      Start mininet with 1 switch and 2 hosts

 

2.      Set the multicast routing for h1 and h2 (ref: https://serverfault.com/questions/359536/what-does-this-linux-command-mean-route-add-net-224-0-0-0-netmask-240-0-0-0-et/359539)

 

3.      H2 settings (receiver)

 

Choose “open network stream”

 

Enter the url and hit “play”

 

 

4.      H1 settings (sender)

Input vlc-wrapper

 

Hit “Stream”

 

Hit “Add” to add a file. (Here, I use test.mpg for example) and then hit “Stream”

 

Hit “Next”

 

Set “RTP/MPEG Transport Stream” and then hit “Add”

 

Set the Address and hit “Next”

 

Hit “Next”

 

Hit “Stream”

 

Finally, you can see

 

 

 

Dr. Chih-Heng Ke (smallko@gmail.com)

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,

National Quemoy University, Kinmen, Taiwan.