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The VLC media player is a free and easy-to-use media player and allows you to stream your videos from your device to TV. Using a VLC stream to TV is available on a local network. Read more to learn how to use VLC cast to TV on Windows/Mac and the best alternative to VLC to cast videos to TV with only four simple steps. VLC media player, a free, open-source and cross-platform media player that has a built-in UPnP-client that lets the user access the contents listed from an UPnP Media server. Though a very complete media player in itself, it does not provide any UPnP Control Point capabilities, nor can the player be controlled as a UPnP compliant Media Renderer. It's the app with the icon of an orange traffic cone. If you don't have it already, you can download VLC for free at VLC is an open-source video player with a lot of beneficial features for playing all kinds of files. This allows users to use more than one VLC player at a time. Once you've done the above you should be able to play as many VLC instances and video or audio files as you like. On the Mac, running multiple instances of VLC is not supported out of the box. As a workaround, you can create a Droplet/App that does the following.

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VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any Mac with a 64-bit Intel processor or an Apple Silicon chip. Previous devices are supported by older releases.
Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported. Please use version 2.0.10 linked below.

If you need help in finding the correct package matching your Mac's processor architecture, please see this official support document by Apple.

Web browser plugin for Mac OS X

Support for NPAPI plugins was removed from all modern web browsers, so VLC's plugin is no longer maintained. The last version is 3.0.4 and can be found here. It will not receive any further updates.

Older versions of Mac OS X and VLC media player

We provide older releases for users who wish to deploy our software on legacy releases of Mac OS X. You can find recommendations for the respective operating system version below. Note that support ended for all releases listed below and hence they won't receive any further updates.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Use VLC 2.2.8. Get it here.


Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Use VLC 2.0.10. Get it for PowerPC or 32bit Intel.


Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later is required

Use VLC 0.9.10. Get it for PowerPC or Intel.


Mac

Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is required

Use VLC 0.8.6i. Get it for PowerPC.


Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar

Use VLC 0.8.4a. Get it for PowerPC.


Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and 10.1 Puma

Use VLC 0.7.0. Get it for PowerPC.

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Introduction

VLC is a free, open source cross-platform multimedia player, media converter and streamer.

The tutorials from this page explain how to use VLC to stream a local video file, with or without transcoding, on the network. The streaming media can then be added inside a project and played on the HMP and or Elementi.

Note: If you choose to transcode the source video file, ensure your PC is powerful enough for real-time encoding of the selected format!

Tutorial

  • Difficulty: Easy.
  • Total duration: 5-10 minutes.
  • Requirements:
    • PC running Elementi software (latest version) and VLC software (tested with v2.1.5);
    • Video file(s) as media source;
    • Hyper Media Player (latest firmware);
    • Standard 100mbps network switch.

Steps

Stream option
Open Media dialog
  1. Configure a network between the HMP and the PC running VLC & Elementi.
    • Other devices present on the network may affect stream performance; always test with an isolated network first.
  2. Open VLC and from the 'Media' menu, choose the 'Stream...' option. (see the image on the left)
  3. In the 'Open Media' dialog that opens, select the file you want to stream.
    • It can be a video file from your PC or from the network, a disc or the output of a capture device.
    • To add a file from your PC, select the 'File' tab, press on 'Add...' button, browse to your file, select it and then press 'Open'. This will add the selected file under the 'File Selection' zone. (see the image on the left)
  4. Press on the 'Stream' button. The 'Stream Output' wizard dialog will open.
  5. Press on the 'Next' button to go to the 'Destination Setup' area.
  6. Select the destination(s) for your stream from RTSP, RTP or UDP and then press the 'Add' button.
  7. Configure the details for the chosen streaming protocol.
    • For the multicast streaming, the address used is usually from the range of local administrative multicast IP addresses (e.g. 239.x.x.x); but you can configure a different multicast address if needed.
  8. Press the 'Next' button to go 'Transcoding Options' area.
  9. If your source file is within the HMP video specifications and thus not needing transcoding, then disable the 'Activate Transcoding' option. Otherwise, select a profile for transcoding that is compatible with the chosen streaming protocol and eventually make the necessary adjustments on the profile defaults. (Some examples can be found below.)
  10. Press the 'Next' button and then the 'Stream' button.
  11. Open Elementi, insert the streaming media source in your project and set its URI according to the chosen streaming protocol. Verify that the stream plays in Elementi.
  12. Publish your project on your HMP.

Transcode into MPEG TS and stream over RTP/TS

This example shows how to stream a video file transcoded into MPEG-TS format, using MPEG Audio as audio codec and keeping the original video codec. This could be used, for instance, to stream a VOB file containing MPEG-2 video and AC3 audio; since AC3 audio is not supported by the HMP, the audio bitstream is changed on-the-fly to MPEG Audio.

  1. Follow steps 1 to 5 from the tutorial above.
  2. As destination, select RTP/MPEG Transport Stream from the drop-down list and then press the 'Add' button.
  3. On the new 'RTP/TS' tab, enter a multicast address (e.g., 239.192.1.23). The port can be left as 5004.
    • Inside the Elementi project, you will set the URI for the streaming media source as rtp://239.192.1.23:5004.
  4. Press on the 'Next' button to go 'Transcoding Options' area. Make sure that 'Activate Transcoding' option is enabled.
  5. Select 'Video - MPEG2 + MPGA (TS)' from the 'Profile' drop-down list.
  6. Press the small toolbox icon next to the 'Profile' drop-down list.
  7. On the Encapsulation tab, select MPEG-TS.
  8. On the Video codec tab enable 'Video' (to include the video stream in the output) and 'Keep original video track' options (for this example there's no need to transcode the video track since the file contains an MPEG bitstream).
    • If the video needs transcoding, then disable 'Keep original video track' option and set the rest of the options according to your needs.
  9. On the Audio tab, enable 'Audio' option (to include the audio stream in the output), disable the 'Keep original audio track' option and select 'MPEG Audio' from the codec drop-down list.
    • If the audio codec is supported by the HMP, then you can leave the 'Keep original audio track' option enabled (the audio will not be transcoded).
    • If the audio track is not needed at all, then disable the 'Audio' option.
  10. Press the 'Save' button.
  11. Follow steps 10 to 12 from the tutorial above.
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Transcode into MP4 and stream over RTSP

This example shows how to stream a video file transcoded into MP4 format, using H-264 as video codec and MPEG 4 Audio (AAC) as audio codec.

  1. Follow steps 1 to 5 from the tutorial above.
  2. As destination, select RTSP from the drop-down list and then press the 'Add' button.
  3. On the new 'RTSP' tab, enter the path to your stream (e.g., '/vlc'). The port can be left as 8554.
    • Inside the Elementi project, you will set the URI for the streaming media source as rtp://Computer_IP:8554/path.
  4. Press on the 'Next' button to go 'Transcoding Options' area. Make sure that 'Activate Transcoding' option is enabled.
  5. Select 'Video - H.264 + AAC (MP4)' from the 'Profile' drop-down list.
  6. Press the small toolbox icon next to the 'Profile' drop-down list.
  7. On the Encapsulation tab, select MP4.
  8. On the Video codec tab, enable 'Video' option, disable 'Keep original video track' option and set the rest of the options according to your needs.
    • If the video doesn't need transcoding, then enable 'Keep original video track' option.
  9. On the Audio tab, enable 'Audio' option, disable the 'Keep original audio track' option and set the rest of the options according to your needs.
    • If the audio track is not needed, then disable the 'Audio' option. If the audio doesn't need transcoding, then enable 'Keep original audio track' option.
  10. Press the 'Save' button.
  11. Follow steps 10 to 12 from the tutorial above.

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