At the request of the workers, we begin to slowly unfold the topic of streaming using VLC, but first, some introductory information, which was often asked after Two serious conversations about VLC


Figure: Formats for streaming output / conversion

Supported Data (replay): *

Input:

  UDP / RTP Unicast (multicast), HTTP, FTP, MMS, TCP / RTP Unicast, DCCP / RTP Unicast, File, DVD (using libdvdcss), VCD, SVCD, Audio CD, DVB (Satellite, Digital and Analog TV), MPEG encoding cards, Video acquisition (via Direct Show (Windows). ISight, EyeTV (MAC OSX). V4L, V4L2 (Linux).) 

Container formats:

  MPEG (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), AVI, WMV (ASF, WMA), MP4, MOV, 3GP, OGG (OGM, Annodex), MKV, Real, WAV (Including DTS), Raw Audio (DTS, AAC, AC3 / A52), Raw DV, FLAC, FLV, MXF, Nut, MIDI, SMF and Creative ™ Voice. 

Subtitles:

  DVD, Text (MicroDVD, SubRIP (*. Srt), SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer), Closed captions (Oriented for watching people with hearing impairments), Vobsub, USF (Universal Subtitle Format), SVCD, DVB, OGM, CMML, Kate. 

Tags

  ID3, APEv2, Vorbis comment 

* - Depends on the OS on which it is running.

FAQ

unicast - Broadcast to one computer (i.e., one IP address): this is called unicast broadcast,
multicast - Broadcast to a dynamically changing group of clients that can join or disconnect from the broadcast at any time (i.e., several IP addresses): this is called multicast broadcast
VLC - VideoLAN Client (He is the player, how everyone sees him)
VLS - VideoLAN Server , (which is almost completely transferred to VLC), in addition to the features of VLC, broadcasts streaming video transmitted via IPv4 and Ipv6:
1. receiving the signal of a satellite decoder (DVB-S) or a conventional digital television decoder (DVB-T),
2. receiving a capture card signal encoded in MPEG.
As well as broadcasting live video,
SAP / SDP - SAP Mini-Server announces multicast broadcasts via IPv4 or IPv6, and VLC receives these announcements and automatically adds the announced broadcasts to the playlist.
VLMa - A utility for managing streams of TV channels received in digital or satellite mode. The interface is designed as a Web site and is written in Java. Also supports streaming audio and video files. Among the key features worth noting:

• Management of VLM instances through telnet interface in VLC
• Active Stream Monitoring
• Dynamic stream tasks (including backup in case of server unavailability)
• Drawing graphs and statistics
• Notifications by mail, ICQ, IRC, MSN

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Internet / LAN channel requirement.

• from 512Kb / s to 4 Mb / s for MPEG-4 (broadcasting)
• 3-4 Mb / s For broadcasting video in MPEG-2 from satellite and digital TV, or from an MPEG-2 encoding card.
• And from 6 to 9 Mb / s for DVD broadcast.

Announcements / Announce

In VLC, you can announce your own streams based on the SAP / SDP standard, or Zeroconf (better known as Bonjour ).