I knew VLC was great for playing video files, especially those files I hadn’t been able to play using other players… & it’s even cross-platform! What I hadn’t paid attention to before was it’s ability to stream videos.
My friend, Craig Fowler (aka ToreadorVampire), recently ran me through the process rather quickly… I didn’t have much time and he didn’t have anything really written up… It was a last minute discussion over IM and I thought it could help to at least get people pointed in the right direction.
There is some documentation up at videolan.org (Streaming HowTo/VLM - VideoLAN Wiki) that shows how to set VLC up to do the streaming, talks about the HTTP interface, etc, but isn’t an instant answer.
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