Free FLV Player - VideoLan - VLC media player and streaming server
For those who are looking for Free FLV Player, i would recommend VLC player, the cross-platform media player and streaming server.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, flv, mov, 3gp, ogm and etc …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
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Posted at September 4th, 2006 by chua
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September 28th, 2006 at 10:34 am
We’ve been using Windows Media Encoder, but would prefer VLC if we can figure out how to get the settings properly installed so that our stream can be “pulled” from our remote server. We do not want to output the stream to another computer, we want the streaming server (IP provider) to pull from our server.
Thanks
We like the playlist feature, but the “help” file is totally inadequate.
February 8th, 2007 at 8:23 am
To use streaming in VLC
At teh server end, open VLC and choose the files you want to open. Tick stream/save. If you want it to play also at the server end tick play locally. For streaming you now click HTTP and type the IP used for the server on the local network followed by a port (ie 192.168.1.2:1234, 10.0.0.3:5000 for examples). For divx you can used MPEG TS i think but a quick google should tell you which encapsulation for which codecs. Then start playing; you might also find it useful to start the web interface to control the playback. (access thru serverip:8080)
At the client end open VLC and open network stream. Enter the IP and port used on the server and play. Enjoy
February 20th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I like vlc.