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Stream in IPv6</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x1245.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="AEN1194" ></A >10.1. Stream in IPv6</H1 ><DIV CLASS="note" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="note" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P > You will need an IPv6-aware operating system, like Linux 2.4.21 with the <EM >ipv6</EM > module loaded, Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Mac OS X version 10.2 or higher. Please look at the features pages on the <A HREF="http://www.videolan.org" TARGET="_top" >VideoLAN web site</A > to know about the status of IPv6 in VLC and VLS for each O.S .</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="warning" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="warning" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/warning.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Warning"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P > If you are using VMware under Linux, you will have to stop VMware and unload the VMware kernel modules, because we noticed it prevented IPv6 streaming !</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="AEN1202" ></A >10.1.1. Stream with VLC</H2 ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > <TT CLASS="prompt" >% </TT ><TT CLASS="userinput" ><B >vlc -vvv video1.xyz --ipv6 --sout udp:[ff08::1] --ttl 12</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > where :</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><TT CLASS="filename" >video1.xyz</TT > is the file you want to stream (you can also put <B CLASS="command" >dvdold:/dev/dvd</B > to stream a DVD or any other input configuration) ,</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><EM >ff08::1</EM > is either :</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > the IPv6 address of the machine you want to unicast to ;</P ></LI ><LI ><P > or the multicast IPv6 address .</P ></LI ></UL ></LI ><LI ><P ><EM >12</EM > is the value of the TTL (Time To Live) of your IP packets (which means that the stream will be able to cross 11 routers) .</P ></LI ></UL ><DIV CLASS="note" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="note" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P > Under Unix/Linux, you may have to protect the square brackets around the IPv6 address :</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > <TT CLASS="prompt" >% </TT ><TT CLASS="userinput" ><B >vlc -vvv video1.xyz --ipv6 --sout udp:\[ff08::1\] --ttl 12</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="note" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="note" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P > You may have to specify the output network interface :</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > <TT CLASS="prompt" >% </TT ><TT CLASS="userinput" ><B >vlc -vvv video1.xyz --ipv6 --sout udp:[ff08::1%eth0] --ttl 12</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > where <EM >eth0</EM > is the name of the network interface (under Linux the network interfaces are named <EM >ethX</EM >, under Mac OS X it's <EM >enX</EM > and under Windows it's <EM >X</EM >, where <EM >X</EM > is the appropriate number) .</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="AEN1240" ></A >10.1.2. 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