Tuesday, November 4, 2008

STREAM VIDEO OVER A LAN USING C#.NET

TV SERVER

TV CLIENT
With the help of Video Lan Player we can easily stream video over a lan using c#.net.For
This Project You must do the following steps.
Step 1:
Install vlc player in your computer.For more information about vlc
player visit http://www.videolan.org/.

Step 2:
Just copy the libvlc.dll from the vlc installaling folder and paste it in
to the windows->system32 folder.

Step 3:
Create a class named LibVlc.cs.You will get the Source code of
LibVlc.cs from http://libvlc.blogspot.com/.

Step4:
Server Side
You design a form contain a picture box and a button.Just copy paste
the source code in the button click event.
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
LibVlc vlc = new LibVlc();
vlc.Initialize();
vlc.VideoOutput = pictureBox1;
vlc.PlaylistClear();
string[] Options=new string[] { ":sout=#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std
{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=224.100.0.1:1234}}" };
vlc.AddTarget("c:\\1.flv", Options);
vlc.Play();
}
catch (Exception e1)
{
MessageBox.Show(e1.ToString());
}
}

Step 5:
Client Side:
In client side we can play video from a stream produced by the
server.Design a form contain a picture box and a button.Just copy
paste the code in the button click event.
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
LibVlc vlc = new LibVlc();
vlc.Initialize();
vlc.VideoOutput = pictureBox1;
vlc.PlaylistClear();
string[] options =
{ ":sout=#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=\"F:\\My-Output-Video-
Filename.asf\"}}" };
vlc.AddTarget("udp://@224.100.0.1:1234", options);
vlc.Play();
}
catch (Exception e1)
{
MessageBox.Show(e1.ToString());
}
}
Code Explanation:
Server Side:
In server side first we create the object of the class LibVlc.cs created in step3.
Set the vlc.VideoOutput=our picture box name.

In vlc.AddTarget() method we pass two para metres.First one is the

full path of the file name to be streamed.Second one is the string
array contain the protocol type,address and a port number.Here
protocol type is udp.

224.100.0.1-multi cast ipaddress.Also use unicast ip address or a

loop back address(127.0.0.1) when you use a single system.
If you want to know more about multicast and unicast ipaddress vist
http://unicastandmulticast.blogspot.com/.
1234-port number.
When the vlc.play() method is executed,Video is playing locally and
stream the video over the Lan at the same time.
Client Side:
In client side first four lines as same as the client side.In
vlc.Addtarget() method we pass two parameters first one contain
protocol type ipaddress and the port number.Second one is a string
array.After this method we can call a method vlc.play().Then video is
playing in our picture box from the Network stream.
We can easily make television broadcasting stations in the local lan
in c#.net.I done a project using this codes view the screen shots of
that project.http://videostreamscreenshots.blogspot.com/
Note:
I use vlc media player 0.8.6i.
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I think this is the answer you are looking for: STREAM VIDEO OVER A LAN USING C#.NET , use libvlc.dll to
do it, detail steps as :

Step 1:

Install vlc player in your computer.For more information about vlc player
visit http://www.videolan.org/.

Step 2:
Just copy the libvlc.dll from the vlc installaling folder and paste it in to the windows-
>system32 folder.

Step 3:
Create a class named LibVlc.cs.You will get the Source code of LibVlc.cs from
http://libvlc.blogspot.com/

Step4:
Server Side
You design a form contain a picture box and a button.Just copy paste the source
code in the button click event.

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{
try
{
LibVlc vlc = new LibVlc();
vlc.Initialize();
vlc.VideoOutput = pictureBox1;
vlc.PlaylistClear();
string[] Options=new string[] { ":sout=#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std
{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=224.100.0.1:1234}}" };
vlc.AddTarget("c:\\1.flv", Options);
vlc.Play();
}
catch (Exception e1)
{
MessageBox.Show(e1.ToString());
}

Step 5:
Client Side:
In client side we can play video from a stream produced by the server.Design a
form contain a picture box and a button.Just copy paste the code in the button click
event.

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{
try
{
LibVlc vlc = new LibVlc();
vlc.Initialize();
vlc.VideoOutput = pictureBox1;
vlc.PlaylistClear();
string[] options = { ":sout=#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=\"F:\\My-Output-
Video-Filename.asf\"}}" };
vlc.AddTarget("udp://@224.100.0.1:1234", options);
vlc.Play();
}
catch (Exception e1)
{
MessageBox.Show(e1.ToString());
}

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