[Live-devel] Problem with Vobstreamer Program

[Ross Finlayson]

At 03:09 PM 4/23/04, you wrote:
>Hi Ross,
>             I have been testing the Vobstreamer to stream *.vob files 
> over network. The client receiver is VideoLan's VLC. Here is the problem 
> that every time I started VobStreamer to multicast, it killed my network 
> connection and the network connection would not recover unless I reboot 
> the machine.  Any advise on my scenario would be great.

Well, if an application program causes your operating system to die, then 
that's hardly the fault of the application program - instead, your 
operating system is buggy, and perhaps you should upgrade (or switch) to 
another, more stable OS.

>Another thing, Can I change Vobstreamer so it use Unicast instead of 
>Multicast?

Not easily, but one thing that you can try instead is use the 
"testOnDemandRTSPServer" test program.  That program streams various kinds 
of file via unicast, on demand.  In particular, if you have a file named 
"test.vob" - in the same directory as "testOnDemandRTSPServer", then you 
can run that application, and it will print out a "rtsp://" URL that you 
can use to access the stream (e.g., using the "vlc" media player).


	Ross Finlayson
	LIVE.COM
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