Send multicast stream

[interfacedy]

Hi Can we use a PC like win8 or 10 or windows server as a video resource to send multicast stream? Thanks

[paul driver · Accepted solution]

Hello
Yes you can, VLC would be aplicable

[Harold Ritter · Accepted solution]

Hi @interfacedy ,

VLC can be used as a multicast streaming client and/or server.

Regards,

[interfacedy]

Thanks for your reply.

@Harold Ritter Why VLC can be used as multicast straming client/or server? Its becasue it can produce something like igmp?

One more question: why we call it as steaming instead of traffic? 

[Harold Ritter · Accepted solution]

Hi @interfacedy ,

Yes VLC can be configured to receive multicast traffic via IGMP. Streaming is often used to refer to video traffic.

Regards,

[interfacedy]

Thanks!

[Joseph W. Doherty]

BTW, traditionally, any host can send multicast.  Literally, all a hosts needs to do is transmit the multicast.

Keeping multicast from "flooding" all the same L2 domain switch links, and/or, routing it between L3 networks, can be considerable more involved.  Again, though, a multicast sending host, might not need to do anything beyond transmitting its multicast packets.

Hosts desiring to receive a multicast stream, also, is more involved.