Does anyone have experience streaming video with #vlc? We're trying to set up a movie night and we keep getting "input can't be opened" errors. (Guides say this is a firewall issue, but I'm pretty sure I gave that permission on the streaming end?)
@DialMforMara Streaming from where to where? I have solved a few streaming problems that have different solutions depending on the configuration. Where is the media? Where is it supposed to be headed? VLC as source or receiver?
@ginguin
There's supposed to be a way to stream from VLC on one computer to VLC on another. Following the online guides gives a "cannot be opened" error on the receiving end.
Our workaround last night involved uploading things to Drive
@ginguin
and Dropbox so we could watch them with Syncplay, which worked fine but took a lot of upload and download time, so I'm still interested in VLC to VLC streaming if it's quicker.
@DialMforMara The same or different networks?
@ginguin
What are you referring to when you say "network"? This happened both with two VLC instances on the same computer, and two instances on computers in different countries.
@DialMforMara I answered my own question. People are all over :) I'll see what I can find/reproduce
@DialMforMara I was playing with VLC and wasn't able to reproduce the problem, and the googles aren't much help without getting more details :(
@DialMforMara my experience is that I've never managed to get it working. I presume the GUI of VLC remains an after-thought and the only way to get the more advanced features working (anything other than simple playback) is via the command line. That's probably not very helpful, sorry ;)