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[Randy Winchester <>]

Thanks Dave.  I tried RTSP as well as UDP, but didn't get anything.  Are you saying that VLC 1.0 should have worked if I specified RTSP as the protocol?

BTW, your construction cam looks great!

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 10:34 -0400, David Devereaux-Weber wrote:
> VLC 1.0 does not determine whether the transport is udp or rtsp.
>
> For example, my construction cam at 233.0.59.6:1234 uses udp 
> <udp://@233.0.59.6:1234>.
>
> HDVTS and the eclipse video use rtsp <rtsp://@ww.xx.yy.zz>.
>
> I don't know of any currently-operating globally-scoped HD multicast 
> using HDVTS.  Are there any out there?
>
>
> Dave
>
> Randy Winchester wrote:
> > Sami,
> > 
> > You had better luck than I did.  I got no reception at all with VLC 
> > 1.0.  I had just returned from vacation yesterday and just assumed that 
> > my multicast reception was hosed.  It didn't occur to me to try an 
> > earlier version of VLC.
> > 
> > Gates - was that your experience also, or did you get nothing as I did?
> > 
> > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 09:36 -0400, Sami Andberg wrote:
> >>  
> >>
> >> I can too confirm that the VLC 1.0 seems to have some issues with HDV 
> >> streams –  I was able to receive them, but more than half of the image 
> >> was filled with gray/colorful artifacts on both streams.
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> I’ll continue testing  if the replay comes online at some point. 
> >> Thanks for the stream, what a great idea! :)
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Sami
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sami Andberg
> >> Data Communications Specialist - Funet - Video Technology
> >>
> >> CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.
> >> P.O. BOX 405, FI-02101 Espoo, Finland
> >> +358 9 457 2131,  
> >

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