Receiving UDP streaming through Windows Media Player

[RamiG]

Hi All,

I am using Windows Media Player Version 11.0.5721.5268 and VLC version 1.0.3

I am trying to stream video over UDP between two media players, the
transmitter is VLC and the receiver is Windows Media Player.

To roll out networking problem I have installed VLC and Windows Media Player
on the same IP host and I use 127.0.0.1 or the IP address assigned to the
computer from my DHCP server.

Please send free to send your reply as well to ramig-at-comsysmobile-dot-com

I manage to do so when the receiver is VLC as well -- so there is no
networking or firewall issue.

My question is: what is the address required to typed in "open URL" to set
Windows Media Player to "listen" on UDP port?

In CorePlayer [Windows Mobile, but the same concept] the command is
"udp://@:1234" for UDP port 1234.

Thanks in advance

RamiG

[Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]]

Set VLC to stream RTSP/RTP, then see if you can connect to the
rtsp://127.0.0.1:1234 address

There's no protocol by the name of "udp", that's a transport, so
probably CorePlayer implements that as a pseudo protocol. There's also
no "@" as a valid IP address format, again you'd have to use a real IP
address, or hostname (your-pc-name, or use localhost or 127.0.0.1)

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2010
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

[RamiG]

Dear Neil,

Thanks for the time and effort, however it seems the proposed combination
does not work [nevertheless I never role out the possibility I did not set
things right]

I'm fully aware to the points you have raised regarding the propriety nature
of using UDP for video streaming and CorePlayer port assignment

I looked again into Windows Media Player and I'm puzzled -- is it possible
that there is no option to stream video "VLC style" to other Windows Media
Player over the network?

Is there any other video streamer which stream video can stream video to
Windows Media Player over the network? [again -- it seems that VLC does not
fit]

Thanks in advance

RamiG

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[Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:51:01 -0800, RamiG
<Ra...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Dear Neil,
>
>Thanks for the time and effort, however it seems the proposed combination
>does not work [nevertheless I never role out the possibility I did not set
>things right]
>
>I'm fully aware to the points you have raised regarding the propriety nature
>of using UDP for video streaming and CorePlayer port assignment
>
>I looked again into Windows Media Player and I'm puzzled -- is it possible
>that there is no option to stream video "VLC style" to other Windows Media
>Player over the network?
>
>Is there any other video streamer which stream video can stream video to
>Windows Media Player over the network? [again -- it seems that VLC does not
>fit]

Ah but you didn't ask that - you started with your proposed solution :

> I am using Windows Media Player Version 11.0.5721.5268 and VLC version 1.0.3
> I am trying to stream video over UDP between two media players, the
> transmitter is VLC and the receiver is Windows Media Player.

WMP doesn't stream using UDP (but HTTP over TCP) however remote
library sharing should meet those requirements.

In WMP11 you're restricted to sharing over the local network, this was
relaxed in WMP12 and you can now access your media library over the
internet from authorised PCs (you'll need a windows live account to
setup the authorisation step)

WMP11 Vista can share to vista, and receive content frmo shared XP
WMP11 libraries, however XP cannot receive content from other
libraries :

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/sharing.mspx#q20:1

Q. What is media sharing?
A. Using Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 media sharing, you can
stream music, pictures, and video from your computer to devices that
are connected to your wired or wireless home network