How to stream video or audio using VLC Media Player
Update: This tutorial is tailored toward version 0.8.6i of VLC Media Player. The interface in the later builds of VLC are quite different.
However, it is recommended that you use 0.8.6i if you wish to stream without any issues. It seems the developers have neglected any progress on the transcoding aspect of VLC and as a result introduced many bugs that reduce quality as well as consume more CPU during runtime.
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Go here to read the summarized guide.
A few people have been coming to me and asking how they can stream videos to their friends or across their network. It seems that not many average users knew that this could be done with VLC media player. Many encoders are either too complex, require you to register with their website in order to use their software, or are just plain slow and clunky. There aren’t many programs that that I’ve come across that accomplish video streaming as well as VLC.
Luckily, the streaming portion of VLC isn’t too terribly difficult for anyone to operate, and today, I’m going to show you how you can do this yourself.
