Basic VLC Streaming

As a backup alternative to Plex Media server, I also setup VLC streaming. It's much more simple, but of course limited. It is however useful for a local network.

First, starting up VLC I selected to Stream.

I was then lead to the following page where I selected the video(s) that I'l like to stream.

I then hit next to see the streaming options. I was going with http. You can customize the port and URL. I left the default on my network which would be (http://myIpAddress:8080). I can change that to the URL of my server etc.

The next page has options for trans-coding the video(s) being streamed. As I have already made the file to a suitable size/format, there's no need to add the additional processing requirements.

Client Side:

This time, as opposed to creating the stream, I need to join it. I navigated to "Open Network Stream".

I entered the URL of the VLC stream followed by the port I specified earlier.

The video(s) being streamed then were able to be opened successfully.