Ariba VLC Plugin - Overlay-based Videostreaming using Ariba and MCPO Application Layer Multicast

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User Guide

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.

The plugin uses the mcpo multicast protocol, which is part of the ariba framework.

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/

Setting up / installing

The ariba framework is currently only available on linux and therefor the plugin is linux-only at the moment.

A quick and simple way for testing but also useing the plugin are the precompiled libraries. In this section we describe how to set up an ubuntu 10.04 for this purpose. This should be adoptable to other linux distributions in an easy manner. Instructions how to compile the plugin will be provided in the Developers Guide below.

A first test.

Scenarios / examples

Developer Guide