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Webcamxp mjpeg12/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Also the VLC player UI's status pane should show 'Streaming'. If everything was fine, you should see a 'creating httpd' message in the console without any other relevant error messages following it (sometimes you might not have an appropriate encoder or the port binding might fail etc.,). Now click on stream and your video should start streaming.Under Profile, choose Windows (wmv/asf) - If you understand, you can opt to choose the right profile as you see fit. ![]() Choose an appropriate port of your choice. Eg., if you have a multi-homed computer, you might want to bind it only to your private network and not your internet IP. Provide the IP address of the interface in which you want to stream your video. A simple method is to stream over HTTP - this specially helps to get across firewalls/networks without glitch.This is where you provide the streaming options. Under the 'Video device name' drop down choose your camera (you can even stream your desktop by choosing it in 'Capture Mode').Choose the 'Capture Device' tab (btw, you can stream a video/audio file/DVD using the appropriate tabs).VLC will throw log messages into this console. To open the console, Menu: Tools -> Add Interface -> Console. Before proceeding further, let us open the VLC's console, so we know if there is any error during the process.Start VLC (all my instructions/snapshots will be as of vlc 0.9.6).I actually started writing a post on that, and felt that this topic is worth a post by itself - some people might just want to stream webcam. Network Cameras (JPEG/MJPEG/MPEG4) - Windows Media streams (ASF) - Local video files (AVI/WMV/MP4/MOV/. I'm not really interested in streaming my webcam but this was actually useful for me for a different reason. By enabling one of its various input interfaces, it is even possible to program against your VLC player - I had written a clip-list application quite sometime back that automatically directs vlc player to play only portions of a given video (maybe a post later). It has lot of interesting features and extensions which are not explored by all. ![]() VLC is definitely more than just a video player. ![]()
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