![]() mp3 you will probably have no dropouts but a lossy sound. flac format but may experience dropouts depending on your system. flac, you will be streaming the high quality, lossless. In Path type in any name you want with the extension. I had to find and install the actual Realtek audio driver for Windows 10 and then enable Stereo Mix in the Windows 10 audio settings, and you may have to do the same or similar with your particular audio device and driver.Ĥ – Select Stream from options at bottom after clicking small down-arrowĦ – Select HTTP from the dropdown list and then click Addħ – Leave Port at 8080. Installing Windows 10 over Windows 7 did not include this option with its default Windows Audio driver. And make sure your PC’s audio device/driver is set to Stereo Mix (or equivalent) in Windows. So you do need to go through them each time you want to stream audio.ġ – Open VLC and navigate to Media > Open Capture Device…Ģ – Capture mode should be set to DirectShow and set Video device name to Noneģ – Audio device name should be set to Stereo Mix (or your audio device/driver’s equivalent). It would be nice if VLC remembered them but so far I do not think it does. Everything has to be just right or it will not work.Īfter hours of practice, I can go thru these steps pretty fast. In fact, VLC can stream all sounds from your PC to another device. You can use VLC to give ‘ears’ to your RD or simply to stream your music around the home over your LAN. Myself, I like to use Remote Desktop software but the RD software I use does not transmit sound. But at the time of writing this VLC appears clean with 0 detections out of 69 virus scanners. If you scan a lot of free software at, you will indeed find some Trojans and other unwanted stuff. People are afraid of new software, and rightly so. ![]() I advocated it at Earthpages well before anyone else saw how good it was. Technically you can even broadcast the input from a TV tuner, though the implementation of that is extremely technical and not for the faint of heart.VLC Media Player is an amazing piece of free software. You can also broadcast your PC's desktop (although that's a little flaky at the moment – we had continual crashes when we tried). By going to Capture Devices in your Stream dialogue, you can see that you can actually live stream from a capture source on your PC – a webcam or capture device for example. Now that you've got basic streaming down, you can experiment with more complex streaming. ![]() You've essentially become a live broadcaster! You can add more streams, restart streams, control the playback position or start streaming something else by double clicking on it.Įssentially what you do on the streaming PC is reflected on the playing devices in real time. On the source PC, you'll notice that any streams you add will be added to the live playlist (which can be saved, just like a normal playlist). Select it and press play to view the stream.īecause it's a live stream (rather than a transferred file) your play controls will be limited on the client you can't, for example, fast forward and rewind – though you could do that on the source PC by moving the slider bar. On a PC, an added stream will appear in the playlist. On a mobile, VLC will actually remember previously typed addresses, so you only need to enter them once and can just tap on them in the future to resume streaming from the device. Tap or click on it and type in: Where is the local IP address of the device that's streaming the video. You'll be given a bar into which to type the address from which to stream. On a PC, click on Media>Open Network Stream. As many devices as you processor and bandwidth can support at once can view the stream. ![]() Now head to the device(s) you want to watch the stream on and fire up VLC.
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