How to connect to VPC stream from an OS X application

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tommasop@free.fr - 20 Nov 2005 12:52 GMT

A program called PPlive which works only on Windows create a stream on
my VPC which can be read by WMPlayer there: the ports which PPLive uses

are 2566 and 8979 in my case, and when I look in properties of the
stream in WMPlayer I see http://127.0.0.1:8888/1.asf
The problem is that WMPlayer on VPC is too slow to play the stream.
So if i could open the stream with a Os X application, like WMPlayer
for mac, or VLC I suppose I could read it properly.
I tried but I could not manage to access the stream on the http
address. The point is that I do not know how to do it.

Do you have any suggestion?

If we could find a solution it could make happy a lot of mac people who

have tried with no luck to have PPlive working on their macs!

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Tim Murray - 28 Nov 2005 05:32 GMT

> A program called PPlive which works only on Windows create a stream on my
> VPC which can be read by WMPlayer there: the ports which PPLive uses are
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> properly. I tried but I could not manage to access the stream on the http
> address. The point is that I do not know how to do it.

Maybe it's a language thing, but I'm not clear as to what works and what does
not.

But a quick note: 127.0.0.1 is the standard URL for your own computer. It's
not a Web address.

What is the URL of the program you are trying to view?

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Paul Power - 28 Nov 2005 22:53 GMT

It won't work.

You're trying to access a Mac application directly from Windows in VPC.
NOT gonna happen!

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How to connect to VPC stream from an OS X application