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<chapter id="receive"><title id="treceive">Receive a stream</title>
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<sect1><title>Receive a stream with VLC</title>
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<sect2><title>Receive an unicast stream</title>
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<para>Launch VLC, click on
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the <emphasis>Net</emphasis> button, select <emphasis>UDP</emphasis>,
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keep the default port and click on <emphasis>OK</emphasis>.</para>
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<para>You can also use the following command line :</para>
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<screen>
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<prompt>% </prompt><userinput>vlc udp:</userinput>
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</screen>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Receive a multicast stream</title>
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<para>Launch VLC, click on the <emphasis>Net</emphasis>
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button, select <emphasis>UDP Multicast</emphasis>, type
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the multicast IP address, keep the default port and click on
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<emphasis>OK</emphasis>.</para>
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<para>You can also use the following command line :</para>
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<screen>
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<prompt>% </prompt><userinput>vlc udp:@239.255.12.42</userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>where <emphasis>239.255.12.42</emphasis> is the multicast IP
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address you want to join.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Receive an HTTP/FTP/MMS stream</title>
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<para>Launch VLC, click on the <emphasis>Net</emphasis>
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button, select <emphasis>HTTP/FTP/MMS</emphasis>, type
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the URL and click on <emphasis>OK</emphasis>.</para>
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<para>You can also use the following command line :</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<screen>
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<prompt>% </prompt><userinput>vlc http://localserver/stream.ps</userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>where <emphasis>http://localserver/stream.ps</emphasis> is
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the HTTP address of the stream ;</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<screen>
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<prompt>% </prompt><userinput>vlc ftp://localserver/stream.ps</userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>where <emphasis>ftp://localserver/stream.ps</emphasis> is
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the FTP address of the stream ;</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<screen>
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<prompt>% </prompt><userinput>vlc mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/encoderfranceinfo</userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>where
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<emphasis>mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/encoderfranceinfo</emphasis> is the MMS
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address of the stream.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Receive a stream with a Set Top Box</title>
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<para>Some <ulink url="http://www.pace.co.uk">Pace</ulink> and <ulink
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url="http://www.aminocom.com">Aminocom</ulink> set top boxes have
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Ethernet cards and can read MPEG2-TS over UDP streams. We had some
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reports that they work with the VideoLAN streamers.</para>
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</chapter>
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