How to Set VLC Player as Media Server to Stream Media Files in Digital Home

We just talked about how to enable VLC player in full screen mode so that you can view HD media contents in PC monitor by default, now lets take a look on how you can setup a simple media server PC using VLC player to stream your media files to client PCs through wireless network in digital home.



First you need to setup a centralized PC that stores all multimedia files in it.

Setup Media Server (in PC server):

1. Install VLC media player in Windows PC.
2. Once completed the installation, launch VLC media player.
3. Go to File -> Wizard to open Streaming/Transcoding Wizard.
4. Choose “Stream to network” then click Next button.
5. Click Choose button, a new Open window will be pop up.
6. Click Browse button to choose a media file to play, then click OK button.
7. Click Next button.
When you choose ‘Stream to network’ option, there are multiple streaming methods that you can select. For instances: UDP Unicast – Stream to single computer, UDP Multicast – Stream to Multiple computers or HTTP – Stream using HTTP protocol.
8. Check “HTTP” and enter the IP of the server PC (Exp: 192.168.1.192), then click Next button.
9. Check “MPEG TS”, then click Next button.
10. Click Finish button to complete the media server setup

Then you need to setup client PC so that it can receive the media streaming seamlessly.

Setup Media Player (in client PC):

1. Install VLC media player in another Windows PC
2. Once completed the installation, launch VLC media player.
3. Go to File -> Open Network Stream
4. Check “HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS”, then enter URL as {media server IP}:8080. Exp: 192.168.1.192:8080
5. Go to Customize field as located at bottom of the screen, enter the value as http://{media server IP}:8080. Exp: http:// 192.168.1.192:8080.
6. Click OK button to complete media player setup. It will start to play the media as playing at media server as setup above.

Take note that the setup only serves as a reference guide and you may need to modify slightly (ex: IP address and etc) to suit your own environment.


3 Responses to “How to Set VLC Player as Media Server to Stream Media Files in Digital Home”

  1. arlinnd
    August 1st, 2009 19:29
    3

    Hey man thanks for this post can u like me and u talk private so u can tell me more bout this cuz ive been tryin alot but it dosent work i cant hook up WMP wit VLC thanks i would really aprct like if u can give me ur email hm so we can talk:( thanks

  2. lappu
    June 6th, 2009 12:09
    2

    Hi

    How To embed Streaming video to html page so that IE & firefox user can see it ?

    Thanks

  3. Dan
    May 7th, 2009 01:00
    1

    Very difficult and these instructions are out of date.

    “Go to File -> Open Network Stream” is now “media -> open network” or “media -> streaming”.

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