Receiving a RTP Multicast from Multicoder on VLC MediaPlayer

The Barix Multicoder can stream at the moment in unicast and Multicast.
On the PC you can receive such streams e.g with FFMPEG or VLC Media Player.

To receive such Multicast on the VLC Media Player you have to select in menu “open Network Stream” and then you have to define the streaming URL.
For a RTP - Multicast you have to use the following URL:
rtp://<IP of the sender>@<multicast IP>:<port number>
e.g:
rtp://192.168.0.50@224.0.0.251:5555

For VLC the Multicast needs to be announced by the sender.
The Multicoder currently only announces the Multicast Ip address 224.0.251,
that means you also have to use this Multicast IP address.
Also you should use an audio format for a standardized payload type, like MP3, G.711 8kHz or PCM 44.1 kHz.

If you need the lowest latency then open “Show more options” and reduce the Network caching.