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.