Play UDP stream in VLC?

Question

I receive an UDP video stream of which I know both the IP adresses and the incoming and outgoing ports of both computers. How can I play it in vlc?

udp:@:1234

Does not work for me. How to fix this?

Solution

Use this syntax: udp://@:1234

However, it is also possible that VLC is interpreting the @ as listening on an IPv6 port instead of IPv4, in which case this page suggests that using udp://@0.0.0.0:1234 may get it to listen on an IPv4 port.

Comments

[heavyd]

No need for the '@' you only need that if you're doing multicast (are you doing multicast?), 'udp://0.0.0.0:1234' where '1234' is the outgoing port should work. What format is your video?

[Nicky Smits]

I tried doing that. And I first mistyped the port and got nothing. Then I did it correctly and I got an error. This seems like I have no acces. Any idea?

[ntg]

Is the port num high enough (e.g. more than 10 000)?