<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE > Receive a stream with VLC </TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="VideoLAN HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE=" Receive and save a stream " HREF="receive.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE=" Receive and save a stream " HREF="receive.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE=" Save a stream with VLC " HREF="x585.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >VideoLAN HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="receive.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 3. Receive and save a stream</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x585.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="AEN549" ></A >3.1. Receive a stream with VLC</H1 ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="AEN551" ></A >3.1.1. Receive an unicast stream</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 udp:</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="AEN556" ></A >3.1.2. Receive a multicast stream</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 udp:@239.255.12.42</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > where <EM >239.255.12.42</EM > is the multicast IP address you want to join .</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="AEN563" ></A >3.1.3. Receive an HTTP/FTP/MMS stream</H2 ><P > Use one of the following command lines :</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><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 http://example/stream.xyz</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > where <EM >http://example/stream.xyz</EM > is the HTTP address of the stream ;</P ></LI ><LI ><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 ftp://example/stream.xyz</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > where <EM >ftp://example/stream.xyz</EM > is the FTP address of the stream ;</P ></LI ><LI ><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 mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/encoderfranceinfo</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > where <EM >mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/encoderfranceinfo</EM > is the MMS address of the stream .</P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="receive.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x585.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Receive and save a stream</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="receive.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Save a stream with VLC</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >