HOW to PLAY IPTV or UDP channels in VLC

[TanmayKishan]

I have comprised and recognized VLC for quite a number of times, tranquil by no means used it until this extremely day. I by no means thought I would encompass such a hard time to play an IPTV or several multicast channel. I consideration, how hard be able to it be. Subsequent to trying to figure this out myself, I basically gave up. The purpose is to try playing on PC donate to IPTV channels, which I am forced to watch on a Motorola VIP1232E box. I am familiar by means of that most channels determine to encompass encryption, other than tranquil. I necessitate testing an open UDP stream to be familiar with that my VLC indeed plays them and then I am able to start testing on my own subscribed channels.

[Leonard]

You donate to an IPTV service by means of a Motorola VIP1910 STB. By means of wireshark to recover the ip and ports, I was capable to create VLC 1.0.5 plays several channels that was presently working with on the stb. This confirmed merely that the stream function of VLC works extremely well on my XPsp3 PC, other than in this case VLC is merely tapping into an existing stream.

[Mr.ken]

The confront seems to be to create VLC identify as a suitable member of the group from side to side the IGMP protocol, and thus being capable to revolutionize channels and watch TV on VLC without the necessitate for the stb to be on and on the similar channel. Is there several way I be able to achieve this for illustration create VLC act as the stb. This determines to facilitate me to watch TV anywhere in the house in accumulation to where the stb is at the moment, and the system determine to act as a dvr. It would actually be sweet.

[stephenx]

Might you be a bit practical on how accurately do you do that. I opened this subject matter for the reason that I am not capable to achieve what you illustrate as quoted on top of. I try to play a stream by means of IP and port 232.32.0.1:5000 at the similar time it's playing on the STB additional than not be able to get several audio or video playing in VLC.

[Latafat]

Do I necessitate to arp poison, dns poison, spoof, transmit. I have encompassed seen lots of talk regarding bridging the modem by means of an additional router or switch/hub, is there a specific set of arrangement desirable in organize to play the inbound UDP stream. The STB does not seem to necessitate one, so what am I misplaced.

[Madhuparna]

In the situation set the accumulation from the defaulting 300 up to 2000, I in conclusion manager get a number of channels running. Ironically, the a small number of channels that runs flawless are adult ,generally crypted channels :mrgreen: I imagine this might be a codec tribulations, in view of the fact that the channels are H264 by means of mpga audio track, additional than I am not certain extraordinarily on the most recent version of VLC the entire channels are scrambled and not working. So I am using 0.86e version or description and it is working with on Ubuntu 8.04 x64.

[Santiaago]

In this the channels register appropriately on VLC v1.0.1 but VLC v0.9.2 immediately demonstrates the title and no tracks. I tried playing approximately by means of some of the VLC extensions additional than they did not considerably improve the appearance so I decided to maintain it straightforward. According to me it must be appropriate and extremely well.

[RoninBlade]

I plummet the xspf file on a web server, derivative the VLC shortcut and additional "http://<server>/channels.xspf" to the authority line. At present, when the user opens the shortcut, VLC loads, opens the first stream and starts playing it. Hit it off on the playlist button open the channel register; twice clicking an entry switches to the selected channel fastidious!

[Ninja-X]

It got the influence VLM be situated an HTTP interface to remotely control one occurrence of VLC (on say system 1) from additional system (on say system 2) which have encompassed and been networked together from side to side 1 router uplinked to the most important stream out. What is the ideal setup for 2 or additional systems wanting to control an occurrence of VLC. Perhaps my perception on VLM is skewed. I desire I might observe the application setup diagram. (Something similar to your streaming explanation (which is tranquil extremely beautiful although unattainable by me).