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You will need an IPv6-aware operating system, like Linux 2.4 or 2.6 with the ipv6 module loaded, Windows 2000 with the IPv6 stack, Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Mac OS X version 10.2 or higher. Please look at the features pages on the VideoLAN web site to know about the status of IPv6 in VLC and VLS for each O.S..
Under Windows 2000, you must add by hand a default multicast IPv6 route, with the following command:
# ipv6 rtu ff::/8 4
where the last number (4 in this example) is the number of your true IPv6 interface. To have a list of your IPv6 interfaces, run ipv6 if.
Under Windows XP, you may have problems with a hidden IPv6 firewall. To solve the problem, go to the list of Windows Services and stop the IPv6 firewalling service.
If you are using VMware under Linux, you will have to stop VMware and unload the VMware kernel modules, because we noticed it prevented IPv6 streaming !
% vlc -vvv video1.xyz --ipv6 --sout udp:[ff08::1] --ttl 12
where:
video1.xyz is the file you want to stream (you can also put dvdsimple:/dev/dvd to stream a DVD or any other input configuration) ,
ff08::1 is either :
the IPv6 address of the machine you want to unicast to ;
or the multicast IPv6 address.
12 is the value of the TTL (Time To Live) of your IP packets (which means that the stream will be able to cross 11 routers).
Under Unix/Linux, you may have to protect the square brackets around the IPv6 address:
% vlc -vvv video1.xyz --ipv6 --sout udp:\[ff08::1\] --ttl 12
You may have to specify the output network interface:
% vlc -vvv video1.xyz --ipv6 --sout udp:[ff08::1%eth0] --ttl 12
where eth0 is the name of the network interface (under Linux the network interfaces are named ethX, under Mac OS X it's enX and under Windows it's X, where X is the appropriate number).
You will need to use the configuration file vls.cfg. Please, see the VLS user guide to know how to write one for IPv6 streaming in unicast or multicast.
% vlc -vvv --ipv6 udp:@[ff08::1]
Under Unix/Linux, you may have to protect the square brackets around the IPv6 address:
% vlc -vvv --ipv6 udp:@\[ff08::1\]
You may have to specify the output network interface:
% vlc -vvv video1.xyz --ipv6 --sout udp:[ff08::1%eth0] --ttl 12
where eth0 is the name of the network interface (under Linux the network interfaces are named ethX, under Mac OS X it's enX and under Windows it's X, where X is the appropriate number).