{"id":4115,"date":"2024-04-25T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:59:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:59:17","slug":"vlc-player-not-playing-multicast-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=4115","title":{"rendered":"VLC Player Not Playing Multicast Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attempting to play a multicast stream from Windows VLC Player, was seeing the IGMP Snooping picking up something from my machine, but not the join to the specific group (channel\/stream) I was trying to view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was attempting to get to a stream: <strong>udp:\/\/@239.4.6.0:1234<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Slot-1 switch1.26 # show igmp group | include 1:32\n239.255.255.250   2   vlan1       1:32     64\n224.0.0.251       2   vlan1       1:32     60\n224.0.0.252       2   vlan1       1:32     66<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resolution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To resolve the problem, it turned out to be VirtualBox, as described in: <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/889007\/vlc-udp-network-stream-does-not-work-in-windows-but-does-in-linux\">https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/889007\/vlc-udp-network-stream-does-not-work-in-windows-but-does-in-linux<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Essentially just either disabling the VirtualBox Interface or setting a specific metric as shown below resolved the issue, so changing from &#8220;Automatic&#8221; to 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1024x674.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1024x674.png 1024w, https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image.png 1137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempting to play a multicast stream from Windows VLC Player, was seeing the IGMP Snooping picking up something from my machine, but not the join to the specific group (channel\/stream) I was trying to view. I was attempting to get to a stream: udp:\/\/@239.4.6.0:1234 Resolution To resolve the problem, it turned out to be VirtualBox, &#8230; <a title=\"VLC Player Not Playing Multicast Stream\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=4115\" aria-label=\"Read more about VLC Player Not Playing Multicast Stream\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}