Stream to VLC

[scoobynz]

Hello,

I am sure that this is not that difficult – well, I have been fiddling all day with it to no avail.

I have squeezecenter installed on a server, 192.168.2.20.

I wish to listen to this via a stream on my desktop computer (192.168.2.10) whilst working. I wish to use VLC media player for this.

Whatever I do I cannot get vlc to play the stream. I have figured out that I need to open a stream called 192.168.2.20:9000/stream.mp3 on vlc and that this should then come up as a player for me to select in squeezecenter. Only thing is that whatever I do I cannot make the player come up in squeezecenter.

I am running VLC 0.9.4 and I try to open a stream by going to Media/Streaming and then going to the Network tab and putting in the details for 192.168.2.20:9000.

Has anyone got a stream to go in a similar situation through VLC? Please put me out of my misery :o)

Many thanks,
S

[funkstar]

Do you have LAME installed?

LAME doesn't come bundled with SqueezeCenter by default becasue of license issues.

Easiest place to get it is here: http://www.free-codecs.com/Lame_Encoder_download.htm

Unzip and drop the lame.exe into %Program Files%\SqueezeCenter\server

You might need to restart SqueezeCenter for all parts of it to recognise LAME is now present.

[scoobynz]

Thanks Funkstar, will give this a go.

I am running Squeezecenter on a Linux server, so I will do the required investigation into the version of Lame etc required and the correct location to install on the Linux installation.

Will let you know how I get on.

Many thanks,
S

[funkstar]

Ah, ok. Sorry I just assumed you were running windows. I don't know where you would put LAME on linux. You could just try and install a package for your respective distro though. That might do it.

[scoobynz]

Well,

I figured out the problem. . . . . I need to ensure that Squeezecenter is streaming before asking VLC to look for the stream - strange as other players (MPlayer) would do not need this to be the case.

I then open network and open the file http://192.168.2.20:9000/stream.mp3 and all works fine.

Many thanks for your help,
S