Re: Mulitcast Apliction Test S/w

Dear Joe

can u say which version of VLC will work out for all this setting
...................

regards
Prakash Kalsaria

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Joe Spoto <joe_at_commsupport.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Daniel
>
> Have a go at this
>
> Setup VLC
> Video Server Setup.
> 1. Go to network settings and give your Video Server the IP address of
> 192.168.1.100/24
> 2. Locate VLC on your laptop and double click to open it.
> 3. On the tool bar, click on Media and then near the bottom of the
> menu
> select "Streaming"
> 4. The first tab called file, under "you can select local files with
> the following list and buttons" click the add button, here we will need to
> browse for a media file, you ought to find a media file in my documents.
> Once you have found the media file click on it and then click open, the
> file
> ought to now be in the VLC
> 5. At the bottom of the open VLC screen click on stream.
> 6. On the new screen click on next
> 7. In the destinations field there is a drop down list called "New
> Destination", drop the list down and select "RTP / MPEG Transport Stream"
> 8. Click "Add" next to the codec options, in the address field type
> the
> multicast address of "224.1.1.1" and keep the base port as the default.
> (Default is 5004, but it really does not matter what the port is)
> 9. On the same screen under "Transcoding options" there is a drop down
> list called "Profile", drop this list down and select "Video - MPEG-2 +
> MPGA
> (TS)"
> 10. Click Next and the options screen appear. Here check the boxes
> named:
> a. Stream all elementary streams
> b. SAP announce
> c. Fill in the dialogue box next to the SAP announce and call it
> "VIDEO-STREAM-1"
> d. In the Group Field enter the same of the Video clip, call it what
> you like. "VIDEO-1"
> e. Set the TTL to 10, (Although not required on a switched network it
> will be required once we start streaming across a routed network.
> 11. Now click on the "Stream" button. Watch the timer on the bottom
> right hand corner of the VLC player, if all the above was done correctly,
> then the timer ought to be incrementing.
> Note: The Audio has not been configured to be carried across, since it is
> quite annoying. But if you really want to hear the audio then at step 8,
> click you could have clicked on the icon of the spanner and screw driver,
> gone to the audio tab and select the "Keep original Sound track"
>
> Video Client
> Go to the Video client:
> 1. Go to network settings and give your Video Client the IP address of
> 192.168.1.150/24
> 2. Open VLC player
> 3. On the tool bar click on "View", followed by clicking on "Playlist"
> 4. On the new screen, on the menu on the left hand side select the
> arrow next to "Local Network", to expand the selection, click on "Network
> Streams (SAP)". In here you ought to see the title of the video stream you
> created in step 9c. It will take up to 2 mins for the SAP (Session
> Announcement Protocol) to learn the available streams, so be patient.
> 5. Double Click on the name of the stream you want and the stream
> ought
> to start playing, remember this is multicasting in real time so the stream
> that you pick up will be from where ever point the video has reached on the
> video server.
>
>
> We do this all the time in the classroom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Daniel Koto
> Sent: 13 October 2011 15:30
> To: Prakash Kalsaria
> Cc: Cisco certification; Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: Mulitcast Apliction Test S/w
>
> You can try MulticastHammer tool it can be placed in various points within
> your network.
>
> Thanks
> Daniel K
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Prakash Kalsaria <
> kalsaria.prakash_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > HI
> >
> > Can any one recomended the Multicast application for the Testing in
> Network
> >
> > I am Using VLC .. but not Know wht setting to be made on reciver side
> >
> > any other application beside vlc ???
> >
> >
> > regards
> > Prakash Kalsaria
> >
> >
> > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
> >
> > _______________________________________________________________________
> > Subscription information may be found at:
> > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
>
>
> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html

Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
Received on Fri Oct 14 2011 - 10:09:24 ART