Changes between Version 30 and Version 31 of Documentation/VLC

Timestamp:

May 4, 2010, 2:06:01 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Christoph Mayer

Comment:

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Documentation/VLC

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 === What is the VLC-MCPO plugin? ===
-The vlc-mcpo plugin is an (not yet) open source streaming module for the vlc-mediaplayer (http://www.videolan.org). It comes with a sender and a receiver module. And is able to handle any kind of stream, vlc can deal with.
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-The plugin uses the mcpo multicast protocol, which is part of the ariba framework.
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+The vlc-mcpo plugin is an Open Source streaming module for the [http://www.videolan.org VLC media player]. It enables video streaming through the overlay-based virtual network substrate Ariba in combination with the MCPO application layer multicast protocol. Through vlc-mcpo you can deliver video streams to groups of users, similar to IP Multicast, but without the need of in-network support. Through the use of Ariba, vlc-mcpo can handle protocol issues such as IPv4/IPv6 transitions, Network Address Translation (NAT), and many more network issues.
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 Ariba provides a virtual overlay net. [...]
 
-For more information about ariba or the SpoVNet project, please refer to: http://www.ariba-underlay.org/, http://www.spovnet.de/
+For more information about Ariba, MCPO, or the SpoVNet project, please refer to: http://www.ariba-underlay.org , http://www.spovnet.de/
 
 
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 For running the vlc-mcpo plugin a number of packages have to be installed:
 
+{{{
 sudo apt-get install vlc [[BR]]
 sudo apt-get install libboost-system1.40.0 [[BR]]
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 sudo apt-get install liblog4cxx10 [[BR]]
 sudo apt-get install libdb4.7
+}}}
 
 Please download the tar-ball containing the required libraries: